Leveraging Data & the Community to Fuel Change in Chicago

2016 AEP National Forum

October 7, 2016

AmySue Mertens Director of Public Affairs

Steve Shewfelt

Director of Data & Research

Nicole Upton Director of Partnerships & Professional Learning

Ingenuity The Thinking Behind Arts Learning

Data & Research

Partnerships & Professional Learning

Policy & Advocacy

Chicago Public Schools :

3rd largest school district in the U.S.

20%+ of Illinois’ student population

Using the Creative Schools Initiative towards

equity of access to arts education in schools

CREATIVE SCHOOLS FUND INVESTMENTS 2014-2016

$-

$500,000.00

$1,000,000.00

$1,500,000.00

$2,000,000.00

$2,500,000.00

SchoolYear2013-14

SchoolYear2014-15

SchoolYear2015-16

SchoolProgramGrants $449,854.00 $998,174.00 $1,590,404.00ArtsEssentials $217,000.00 $485,000.00 $812,000.00

Steve Shewfelt, Ph.D. Director of Data & Research

Ingenuity

Data Collection & Dissemination

Find a fit

Developing a Theory of Action

This project is designed to generate provisional, plausible, and testable answers to the

following questions:

•  How does arts education affect students’ socio-emotional development?

•  How are the practices that are central to different kinds of arts education (music,

theatre, dance, visual arts, etc.) related to students’ socio-emotional development?

•  How do students, parents, educators, and teaching artists view the relationship between

arts education and socio-emotional outcomes?

•  How do these stakeholders think about and prioritize among these outcomes?

The project will also speak to (and be informed by) questions about the context in which arts

education occurs:

•  How does the context (i.e., the school setting, the neighborhood, the cultural context) in

which arts education is provided affect its role in students’ socio-emotional development?

•  What is the relationship between arts education and the culture of a school?

Theory of Action Goals

•  A roadmap for practitioners as they look to arts education to facilitate

social and emotional growth among students

•  A tool to help arts education advocates articulate ways arts instruction can

affect student outcomes and to discuss reasons arts instruction is an

important part of a quality education

•  A touch-stone for future research on the relationship between arts

instruction and development of social and emotional skills

Knowledge Collection

Community Research

Theory Development

Three simultaneous activities creating a “dialogue between ideas

and evidence.” Each activity in the project informs and is informed

by the other activities.

Project Outline

Nicole Upton Director of Partnerships & Professional Learning

Ingenuity

STRATEGIC VISION FOR PPL

Advance the QUALITY, reach, and

EFFECTIVENESS of arts programs in

schools.

ACCESS + = EQUITY QUALITY

JULY 2017

STRATEGIC VISION FOR PPL

Advance the QUALITY, reach, and

EFFECTIVENESS of arts programs in

schools.

THANK YOU!

2016 AEP National Forum

October 7, 2016