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Project AIM
Focusing on the integration of text and image, CCAP’s Arts Integration Mentorship Project (Project AIM) explores parallels between arts and literacy learning. It does this by partnering teaching artists from Columbia College and community-based arts organizations with public school teachers in Chicago and Evanston. Artists and teachers learn how to jointly create arts integrated curriculum that promotes reading and writing through the arts.
New for the 2008-2009 school year, Project AIM expanded its approach to include a focus on math literacy through funding awarded under the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) Grant Program from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement. This new initiative—Translations: Multi Directional Learning in the Arts, Literacy and Math—will continue the arts integration model developed and implemented at CCAP over the past seven years.
Working together, Project AIM’s artists and teachers infuse classrooms with creativity and experiential learning that connect personal experiences to the core curriculum. The talented cadre of teaching artists (link to new Teaching Artist Cadre page) brings their expertise in creative writing, spoken-word performance, theater, music, visual arts, book and paper arts, photography, and film to the classroom. Using inquiry-based teaching, students are guided through each step of the creative process from brainstorming, revision and rehearsal, to exemplary performances, exhibitions, and documentation of their work.
Project AIM has established partnerships with the following public schools in Chicago and Evanston:
Federal funding for Project AIM has been ongoing through an initial three-year AEMDD grant that just ended, and a four-year U.S. Department of Education FIPSE (Funds to Improve Post Secondary Education) award.
For more information on how to get involved with Project AIM, please visit the Get Involved page. To speak to someone about this exciting work please contact the Project AIM Associate Director.
New for the 2008-2009 school year, Project AIM expanded its approach to include a focus on math literacy through funding awarded under the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) Grant Program from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement. This new initiative—Translations: Multi Directional Learning in the Arts, Literacy and Math—will continue the arts integration model developed and implemented at CCAP over the past seven years.
Working together, Project AIM’s artists and teachers infuse classrooms with creativity and experiential learning that connect personal experiences to the core curriculum. The talented cadre of teaching artists (link to new Teaching Artist Cadre page) brings their expertise in creative writing, spoken-word performance, theater, music, visual arts, book and paper arts, photography, and film to the classroom. Using inquiry-based teaching, students are guided through each step of the creative process from brainstorming, revision and rehearsal, to exemplary performances, exhibitions, and documentation of their work.
Project AIM has established partnerships with the following public schools in Chicago and Evanston:
- Academy of Communications and Technology (ACT) Charter School
- Robert Crown Community Academy Fine Arts Center
- Theodore Herzl Elementary School
- Edward Jenner Academy of the Arts
- Thurgood Marshall Middle School
- Casimir Pulaski Fine Arts Academy
- Albert R. Sabin Magnet School
- Bessie Rhodes Magnet School, Evanston
- Martin Luther King Lab School, Evanston
Federal funding for Project AIM has been ongoing through an initial three-year AEMDD grant that just ended, and a four-year U.S. Department of Education FIPSE (Funds to Improve Post Secondary Education) award.
For more information on how to get involved with Project AIM, please visit the Get Involved page. To speak to someone about this exciting work please contact the Project AIM Associate Director.