Ingenuity State of the Arts Progress Report 2015-2016 | Page 10

introduction
The overall rating for each school is the
product of a scoring rubric comprising
several components; primary among them
are arts instructor staffing and access to arts
instruction (measured in elementary schools
by minutes of instruction and the share of

Primary components of the Creative
Schools Certification are staffing,
access, minutes of instruction, and
disciplines and depth.
students that have access to that instruction,
and in high schools by number of disciplines
and depth of instruction available in those
disciplines). The next section of the report

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discusses each of these components in turn,
again exploring notable differences in how
they are distributed across the district and
how they have changed over time. For those
who are interested in exploring these data
in more detail, or in learning about the arts
environment in a particular school, a listing
of the full rubric for every CPS school is
provided in the Appendix.
The report also discusses the supplementary
elements that comprise a school’s arts
education environment. Some of these
elements are included in the rubric that is
used to determine a school’s rating: whether
a school has a dedicated budget for the arts,
professional development for arts instructors,
an arts integration program, partnerships with
external arts organizations, and opportunities
for parent and community engagement.