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In-School Performance: An external arts
organization comes into a school to provide
a single-day performance, exhibit, lecture,
demonstration, or event to a specific grade,
class, or entire student body.
International Baccalaureate: A continuum of
high-quality educational programs that encourage
international mindedness and a positive attitude
toward learning.
Local School Council: The body which has been
established to carry out the Illinois legislature’s
intent to make the individual, local school
the essential unit for educational governance
and improvement, and to place the primary
responsibility for school governance and
improvement in the hands of parents, community
residents, school staff members, and principals.
Magnet Cluster Schools: More than 100 specialized
neighborhood schools that focus their curricula on
one of four subject areas: fine and performing arts,
world language, International Baccalaureate, or
technology. Fine and performing arts magnet cluster
schools integrate the arts into all subject areas.
Music: A student’s music education experience may
include, but is not limited to, general music, choir,
band, orchestra, jazz ensemble, guitar, percussion
ensemble, music theory, Advanced Placement (AP)
music theory, technology composition, songwriting,
piano lab/music keyboards, International
Baccalaureate (IB) music, music history, marching
band, drum line, multicultural and historical music,
ethnic, opera, musical theatre, Mariachi, marimba,
steel drums, and recording studio.
National Core Arts Standards: National standards
for arts that are designed to align with Common
Core State Standards.
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Options Schools: Schools that offer additional
supports and services for students who need
a new pathway toward high school graduation.
Some Options schools offer additional supports,
such as child care, counseling, and alternative
schedules for students who may work during
the traditional school day.
Other Services: External community arts
partner services not captured in traditional
arts programming categories (e.g. parent and
community programs and classes, planning services,
and hosting exhibitions and competitions).
Out-of-School Time Program: Any programming
in which CPS youth participate outside of the
traditional school day.
Professional Development: Training for instructors
and/or administrators that enables staff to learn
more about developing arts-based lessons and
best practices; often customized to serve specific
classroom interests and goals.
Quality Initiative: A research initiative launched
by Ingenuity in November 2015 to define, assess,
and enhance quality arts instruction by arts
partners across Chicago and beyond. Using a
community-engaged research process, the Quality
Initiative surfaced the Chicago arts education
community’s core values around quality, and has
translated these values into The Arts Partner
Standards of Practice, which will be used to guide,
enhance, improve, and deepen the quality of arts
education practice.
Residency: An artistic program within a given
school in which a teaching artist(s) implements an
arts-learning curriculum over the course of several
weeks or months, typically in conjunction with
CPS classroom instructors.