CAPE After School (SCALE)

CAPE after school (also known as  “Supporting Communities through Arts Learning Environments”) (SCALE) re-envisions and activates the school as a site for arts, learning, and for family and community members. CAPE’s SCALE after-school program partners teaching artists with teachers to develop an original curriculum that supports project-based arts-integrated learning. As a laboratory for in-school learning, after-school students weave academic and social emotional learning with various art disciplines and teachers are able to experiment with academic content and pedagogical strategies.     

CAPE Parent/Community Classes provide contextualized creative and continuous development opportunities for parents and families. The classes integrate the arts with community articulated needs such as English language learning, technology skills, career development, civic and ecological issues, etc. Community classes are co-taught by teaching artists and teachers and illuminate for parents the connections between art making and learning, and how parents can observe evidence of learning and development in their child’s arts and academic work.