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Arts for All: All Students, All Arts, All Schools
1. Visit our FACE Book Page and click LIKE : arts for all Chicago schools. It will keep you connected to like minded arts educators (art, music, drama, dance, playwriting, photography and more!)
2. Be an Advocate for ARTS education and Promote the Policy that: All Pre-K -12 grade students must have a comprehensive, balanced, sequential, in-school program of instruction in the arts, taught by state certified art teachers, designed to provide students of all ages with skills and knowledge in the arts in accordance with high national, state, and local standards.
3. Let your voice be heard across the city: All educators, All Arts educators, All supporters of the ARTS must join the conversation with the Chicago Office of Cultural Affairs who is canvassing the city for the first time since 1986 to listen to citizens and formulate the 2030 Cultural Plan for Chicago. www.chicagoculturalplan2012.com log on and write your statement and ask questions pertaining Funding for full time arts and music teachers in every school in every neighborhood, now. 4. Expose the privatization of the CPS arts office. Require CPS to share its comprehensive plan for the arts. Visit Ingenuity, Inc. on the web and follow their practices as they serve Chicago schools and the Chicago patrons of the arts. Urge Ingenuity, Inc to support full time certified and endorsed arts and performing art teachers in every neighborhood school this year.
5. Call for the restoration of the Fine and Performing ARTS magnet cluster schools by restoring funding for these vital and important CPS schools.
6. Build alliances with community arts partnerships vs. competing with these local cultural arts groups.
7. Celebrating and calling for the support of the ALL-city ARTS and Performing ARTS venues for our students. The ALL-City programs have been privatized and outsources to private vendors. Demand that the hundreds of thousands of dollars of scholarship funds be available for our deserving Chicago students.
8. Build bridges with the Greater Chicago ARTS community who sees their 40 million dollar investment in CPS schools and the community to build bridges for access to the arts for all Chicago children starting with full time, fully funded CPS board certified and endorsed arts and performing arts teachers in all schools.
9. To call attention to the CPS board policy that allows for ARTS apartheid and schools and children who are starved for the ARTS. Acknowledge that ARTS illiteracy of high school students coming from 8th grade and schools that do not offer ART or MUSIC or Theater or Dance to their students.
10. Call for the ending of the 750 student’s threshold once and for all that has denied and prevented over 100,000 CPS children of a rich world class education with both ART and MUSIC in every neighborhood school.
11. Call for support of all parents and our students who RAISE THEIR HANDS in support of a better school day for all students (not a longer drill and kill supported by groups that Stand on Children).
12. Call for the education and support of the new language in the 2012 CTU agreement to provide a full time, CPS fully funded art and performing arts teacher in every school. Log on the web site and follow the negotiations and announcments.
13. This is a win/win for all schools, and all children and all the ARTS. Engage with your local school councils (LSC) and CPS schools, that providing a full time, fully funded ARTS teacher and Music teacher, enables the school to free up $20,000-$80,000 that currently each school has to raise and scramble to find to pay the other half time ARTS position. Explain that fully funding these positions will allow Principals, LSC and schools to make School Improvement plans and local budgets that fund for the ARTS.
14. Each school will now have local funds to spend on community sponsored guest artists, arts partnerships, educational field trips to arts and cultural institutions and museums. Or a school may use this discretionary fund for additional “wrap around services for students in need.”
15. Mobilize ARTS teachers and all teachers to attend the Chicago Cultural Plan 2012 listening sessions being held now through April. To mobilize all ARTS teachers to take a leadership role in crafting the 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan.
17. Build vertical teaming with elementary, middle and secondary ARTS Education teachers.
18. Spread the word across the United States that CPS is on the verge of an ARTS Renaissance. Now is the time to bring in the best certified, endorsed Art, Music, Theater and Dance teachers to all neighborhood schools!
19. Call the alarm of the alternate arts and performing arts certification being promoted by well connected universities like Columbia College and various accredited institutions who are promoting a plan to provide hundreds of jobs in schools for non-certified, non-endorsed Arts related instructors.
20. If not you? Who? And, if not now? When?
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