Congratulations, Bateman will take part in the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education Collaboration Laboratory

Bateman is 1 of 10 new schools to become part of the CAPE network in the Fall of 2017. These new schools will become part of a Collaboration Laboratory (or “Co-Lab”) program, which introduces participants to CAPE’s approach to arts integration.
 The Bateman fine arts department will receive 

• Teaching artists. CAPE will partner teachers with artists also new to CAPE, to form an arts integration team for the school.
• Professional development. Teachers, with their partner artists, will attend after-school CAPE professional development meetings on arts integration, inquiry and big idea-based teaching and learning, collaboration and co-teaching, documentation, dissemination, and more.
• Planning time. CAPE will provide facilitated planning time for teachers and artists at our professional development meetings, and at their school settings.
• Arts integration classroom unit. In the spring, participating teachers and artists will be supported (through teaching artists hours and supply budget) in co-teaching an arts integration unit in their classrooms.