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<p class="paragraph"  class="text_wrapper__yUJ_G components_textWrapper__PVMTS" data-version="v1" data-slate-node="element">Artists in Public Schools creates artist residencies in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), providing expansive art making experiences for students, educators, and professional Chicago-based artists. Working together with a collaborative, community-focused mindset, we celebrate and widely share the unique stories of CPS students and schools through art and creativity. When the arts and aesthetics are integrated into education, work, and life, we strengthen our capacity to learn. Creating something is at the core of learning.</p>
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Rowe Elementary School

Ravenswood Elementary School

William Penn Elementary School

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<p class="paragraph"  class="paragraph" ><span style="font-weight: 300;">I think one of the most exciting things about any school is change and growth in the students. I think one of the biggest years for this is kindergarten. Children come into the year with little to no experience in a classroom environment and by the end of the year they are experts at being students. For my classroom I’m lucky to have a close friend who teaches kindergarten at Penn academy in Chicago’s north Lawndale neighborhood. Other years with Artists in Public Schools I’ve worked with several classes in a single school, this year concentrating on a single classroom has been really great because I feel like I’m really getting to know the students, and they me. So when I go into the classroom, they say hello to me but also ignore me, because they are used to having me around. It’s been really great watching their growth this year. Learning to read and write, and cut paper. Like the book says everything you really need to know you learn in kindergarten.</span></p>
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Doug McGoldrick, Cps Lives, William Penn Elementary School, Chicago Public Schools, international students, rogers park, artist residency, chicago, photography, art, non-profit organization

<p class="paragraph" >I was born in Princeton, NJ, but raised in a suburb of Minneapolis. I grew up sailing in the summer and cross country skiing in the winter, in the spring and fall my dad and I would go out and take pictures. I have a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison, but I still can’t spell to save my life. I live in a quaint burg just outside the city limits of Chicago. I’ve worked for companies as large as International Paper and as small as some local free newspaper you find in a coffee shop. I can handle any job you can throw at me – as long as I don’t have to spell much. And I love anything that gets me traveling.</p>
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William Penn Elementary School

Stories from William Penn Elementary School

Doug McGoldrick
& William Penn Elementary School
Doug McGoldrick & William Penn Elementary School

William Penn Elementary School

Stories from William Penn Elementary School

Doug McGoldrick & William Penn Elementary SchoolDoug McGoldrick & William Penn Elementary School

Doug McGoldrick
& William Penn Elementary School
Doug McGoldrick & William Penn Elementary School