Art Education
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21st Century Community Learning Centers
Funded by the Illinois State Board of Education, Beacon Street's 21st CCLC programs provide multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural arts integrated programming that encourages students to develop academically, creatively, socially, and emotionally through positive self expression and peer collaboration. Our programs emphasize development of essential life skills, including creative problem solving, conflict resolution, and career development. From 2004-2009, Beacon Street operated its first 21st CCLC program at Joseph Brennemann Elementary School in Uptown. Current programs are located at Graeme Stewart Elementary School in Uptown (through 2012) and George Armstrong School of International Studies in Rogers Park (through 2014).
Master Artist
Sponsored by the City of Chicago Department of Family Support Services, the Master Artist Program pairs teaching artists with at risk youth to result in creative and educational opportunities for the greater community.
Arts Impacting Achievement
(www.artsimpactingachievement.org)
Arts Impacting Achievement (AIA) was a research project funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement. A group of partners, Northeastern Illinois University, Beacon Street Gallery, and The Chicago Teachers' Center, set out to document and disseminate an arts integration model that had been used in Chicago for over a decade in the Lakeview Education and Arts Partnership (LEAP).The initiative worked in 6 schools across two cities, Chicago and Elgin, to better understand the ways that the arts can be used as a catalyst for learning across the curriculum. The growth in teacher abilities to teach in and through the arts was studied through an experimental design. This website represents the lessons learned through three years of work with teachers, artists and students growing through arts integrated practice.
Youth Net
Sponsored by the Department for Human Services / Chicago for Youth Office, YouthNets were developed to create a 'network of youth development throughout Chicago's neighborhoods, community based and supported by all levels of governement, where young people can find opportunities and support'. Beacon Street Gallery was a YouthNet for 5 years, providing educational, artistic, and recreational activities for youth in the Uptown area.
LEAP
(Lakeview Education and Arts Partnership)
Beacon Street was a founding partner in LEAP a program that is increasing student achievement through integrating the arts across curriculum in Chicago public schools. In partnership with Chicago Teachers Center, Sulzer Library, Lakeview Chamber of Commerce, Lakeview High, Blaine, Audubon, and Ravenswood Elementary Schools, artists from a number of disciplines work with teachers to integrate the arts into the curriculum in developing projects from socials studies to mathematics. LEAP was chosen by Harvard's Project Zero/ ARTS SURVIVE as one of eight promising partnerships and has been featured on Channel 11's Artbeat. LEAP was funded by Annenberg Challenge and Chicago Arts Partnership in Education. LEAP has also been duplicated in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
