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Teaching and Learning is an integral part of CAE’s mission and unique approach to ensure that New York City public school students have quality arts learning as an essential part of their K-12 education. The CAE model blends traditional programmatic work in Teaching and Learning with Advocacy and Public Engagement to effect change on a variety of levels.
 

CURRENT TEACHING AND LEARNING INITIATIVES

Arts Powered Learning CAE has partnered with The Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) on Arts Powered Learning, an initiative created to mine effective practices used in arts-healthy schools, and in so doing, help other schools to implement their own quality arts education programs.
Career Development Program (CDP) CDP creates outstanding opportunities for high school students and educators to participate in school-to-career activities in the arts and related industries. The program's primary goal is to expose students, teachers, counselors, and administrators to the many career options in New York City’s $21 billion arts industry. 
Parents As Arts Partners (PAAP) A school-based family arts program, PAAP engages parents and their children in hands-on, interactive arts education activities, including workshops with teaching artists and school arts teachers as well as visits to cultural organizations. In so doing, this innovative program promotes school reform through the arts. 
Principals Institutes CAE hosts Principals Institutes in partnership with the Integrated Curriculum and INstruction Learning Support Organization (ICI LSO) of the NYC Department of Education. These workshops address the needs of school leaders, who have the capacity to institute powerful change in support of arts education.
Professional Development CAE is dedicated to improving the quality of teaching and learning through Professional Development, giving principals, classroom teachers, in-school arts specialists, teaching artists, and arts organization administrators opportunities to advance and enrich their abilities to bring quality arts programming into their schools.
School Arts Support Initiative (SASI) This innovative school-based program was created for underserved New York City public middle schools with little or no arts education. The goal is to help develop the capacity needed to transform these schools into arts rich communities.
Special Education Research shows that students with autism—now the fastest growing serious development disability in the United States—learn better through the arts. CAE works with PS 37 on Staten Island, a school for students with severe cognitive disabilities, in partnership with Marquis Studios. Together they have created a comprehensive arts residency to continue to explore how the arts affect student learning.