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Goals & Objectives

The Arts Education Plan 2.0 will lay the strategic foundation for deepening and expanding the student experience at CPS. With this Plan, we strive to ensure that every student receives a high-quality, multifaceted arts education that ignites their creativity, uncovers their unique identity, and opens doors to boundless career possibilities.

The Plan Will:

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    Purpose

    • Be a visionary document that defines the next evolution of CPS arts education priorities, practices, and policies
    • Outline high level commitments and owners
    • Continue to highlight the importance and the impact of the arts in preK-12 education
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    Audience

    • Center the student experience, and how teachers, administrators, and external partners support that experience
    • Inclusive of district & non-district managed schools
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    Organization

    • Align to existing continuous improvement frameworks (CIDT) and the CPS Strategic Plan
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    Specifications

    • Celebrate progress since 2012, showcase exemplars, and provide recommendations for the next five years.

The Plan Will Not:

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    Purpose

    • Be a granular implementation roadmap or guide book
    • Provide hard implementation deadlines
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    Audience

    • Direct citywide arts and/or arts education efforts not connected to CPS
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    Organization

    • Necessarily fall under the same six goals identified in 2012
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    Specifications

    • Dictate significant departures from the ongoing work of the DAE
    • Be inaccessibly long or jargon-heavy

Priorities

The following considerations for the development process have been elevated during initial interviews

  1. Elevate a diverse spectrum of student and parent voices, particularly those who are typically left out of these conversations
  2. Leverage the development of this plan to intentionally build alignment, trust, and awareness of DAE offerings and best practices with school leaders
  3. Ensure that this plan is student-centered, while also knowing that external partners play a key role in supplementing–not supplanting-CPS teacher instruction
  4. Balance idealism with feasibility and sustainability, while pushing for innovation
  5. Plan should acknowledge and build on the existing strengths of DAE

Proposed Components of a New Plan

  • Historical Context and evaluation of goals met/not met from 2012 Plan
  • Research on arts education best practices
  • Data Analysis and Reporting of current state, beyond the CSC and 2012 Plan goals
  • New DAE Mission and district Vision
  • Goals and Recommendations
  • Clear Assignments of Responsibilities for Implementation
  • Estimated budget and potential funding sources
  • How does this plan connect with other content areas and district priorities?

CPS Department of Arts Education

773-553-2170

cpsarts@cps.edu

42 W. Madison St, 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60602