CAPE (Chicago Arts Partnership in Education)

The Chicago Arts Partnership in Education is a phenomenal website!  I have read bits and pieces of the book they published on arts integration, Renaissance in the Classroom, and it is a great compilation of practical/theoretical resources about this topic.  Highly recommended.  The site is also a vast resource.  An art teacher whose class I observed last semester was involved in CAPE and showed me a great archive of actual unit/lesson plans that integrate the arts.  It can be found under the "CAPE: Research/Action Research" > "Examples."  You can do searches by topic area or "strand," school, school year, or grade level.  Definitely inspirational and useful material for when we start developing lessons for our thesis projects, particularly us MATs who will be working in CPS.  Perusing the site, I managed to cut through the stressed out thesis feeling and get excited about the process.  There are tons of examples of actual research questions linked to activities which sought to answer them.  After all of the theoretical readings we've done about this, it's refreshing to see concrete examples, and plenty of colorful, thoughtful, and humorous kid art, in addition to lots of links to publications, events, and I signed up for their mailing list to get news about arts integration...great site.