2017-18 Fund-in-Need

FUND-IN-NEED

SUPPORT OUR 2017-18 MISSION MOMENT

AN APPEAL TO  IMPACT INSTRUCTION THROUGH MODERNIZED ARTS-INTEGRATION SPACES

IMPACT INSTRUCTION

Launching learning higher through arts integration

Cover artwork by  AACA student artist, Ben

2017-18 FUND-IN-NEED
PADDLE RAISE APPEAL

IT SEEMS

OBVIOUS BUT

IS OFTEN

FORGOTTEN:

TEACHING
AND
LEARNING
SHOULD
SHAPE THE
BUILDING,

NOT VICE

VERSA.

CHERYL DESPATHY
THE THIRD TEACHER

THE GOAL

RAISE
$75,000 IN
15 MINUTES

Our  Fund-in-Need goal is simple.

We aim to raise $75,000 in 15 minutes through our Fund-
in-Need Paddle Raise Appeal during the live auction at Art

& Soul '18 on Saturday, March 3 at 9:00 p.m.

With these funds, we will create yet another Mission
Moment with your choice to impact instruction for  every 

 student by creating modernized arts integration
environments shaped by teaching and learning.

Raise your paddle and join us as we fulfill our mission to
inspire and enable our children to reach their full

potential by providing a rigorous education combining
academic excellence, an arts-integrated curriculum, and a

strong Catholic foundation.

We hope you will consider making a gift during
this year's Art & Soul Fund-in-Need Paddle
Raise to help us achieve our vision.

2017-18 FUND-IN-NEED
PADDLE RAISE APPEAL

A  look inside our Visual Art Studio

At AACA, teaching and learning shape our environment – we are not restricted by the
physical confines of a century-old campus. Our creative educator community seeks to use
every nook and cranny of our space to reflect conversations about the learning happening in
our classrooms, our hallways, our community, and beyond.

It is with this spirit of continuous improvement in mind that we identified our fund-in-need
appeal to modernize AACA's art spaces by both updating our current studios and creating a
new location for engaging students using all art forms through an integrated, interactive
display.

It is necessary to update our existing studio facilities in order to provide the highest level of
educational instruction. This year's appeal will improve the studios' functionality through
supporting better storage and seating in the visual arts studio, replacing worn out flooring
in the drama space, and expanding the range of musical instruments used in our general
music, band, and choir programs.

It is also necessary to provide as many opportunities as possible for AACA students to build
our caring, Catholic learning community. Located at the school's second-floor center
staircase landing, The Arts Integration Hub will transform the space currently occupied by
an out-of-use trophy case. Literally located in the heart of the school, The Arts Integration
Hub will showcase and support arts-integrated work while building community through
conversations. 

Designed for teachers to guide small groups of students in interactive, reflective
conversations about their learning, The Arts Integration Hub will engage all learners in
thematic content planned to complement academic curricula. Faculty will be supported
with ongoing professional development to maximize the space's impact on instruction and
learning.  

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Curious students peek into learning happening inside The iStudio, the 2016-17 Fund-in-Need

The comfortable environment will create opportunities for community-building
conversations based on other students’ work and ideas. Its intimate scale will encourage
introspection and provide new dimensions for students to interpersonally relate –
something that is not always possible in a large classroom format.

When not in use as an adaptive and interactive learning spot, The Arts Integration Hub will
showcase the process and products of arts-integrated teaching, providing passers-by of all
ages an opportunity to explore others' learning.

The Arts Integration Hub will also be home to presentations and performances from our
academic and art classes in all grades. Below shelving for visual artwork, the space features
a chalkboard wall to be used for tactile engagement with the hub’s content or even as a
student-designed backdrop for dramatic or musical performances.

Creating The Arts Integration Hub will offer students more opportunities to learn together.
When children work together, each is developing his or her own process by learning from
the thinking process of the others. When students believe that others play an active role in
contributing to their learning, identity, and knowledge, a very important door to the joy of
being together is opened.

Funding this project will make the process of student learning
through arts integration visible in a way that cannot be

accomplished by traditional bulletin boards or classroom displays
alone. Once funded, it will impact instruction for every student at

Alphonsus Academy as soon as Fall 2018. 

2017-18 FUND-IN-NEED ARTS INTEGRATION HUB
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Proposed Transformation

Current Space Proposed Transformation View 2

2017-18 FUND-IN-NEED MUSIC  STUDIO SAMPLE INVESTMENTS
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Ineffective instrument storage, poor seating, and a limited
range of musical instruments stifle learning opportunities
for our students in preschool-eighth grade music and band
classes. 

A sample of our needs include: 

- 50 Wenger student chairs and rolling cards

- Additional xylophones for 1:1 student use per class

- Expanded range of musical instruments including drum
sets, ukuleles, digital pianos, and more! 

These investments will increase student engagement,
improve class management, and create a more flexible
learning environment for our Alphonsus Academy
students. 

2017-18 FUND-IN-NEED DRAMA STUDIO SAMPLE INVESTMENTS
PADDLE RAISE APPEAL

The drama studio lacks
any functional seating
for students and the
foam floor is damaged
beyond repair.

A sample of our needs
include: 

- Replace flooring

- FlipFORM risers

These investments will
improve student focus
while creating a safer
learning environment
for all.

2017-18 FUND-IN-NEED ART STUDIO SAMPLE INVESTMENTS
PADDLE RAISE APPEAL

The art studio, like all of our art spaces, must
accommodate every learner, big and little.
The current furnishings do not offer
adequate flexibility to stage the room for
preschool-eighth grade students. 

Improved furnishings will improve
classroom management, as well as student
concentration and engagement. 

A sample of our needs include: 

- Adjustable height tables

- Ergonomic faucets for more efficient
materials clean-up

-Custom casework for 2d & 3d art storage

These investments will transform the
learning environment in our art studio.

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Artwork by AACA  Student Artist,  Donor's Child

IMPACT INSTRUCTION

LAUNCHING LEARNING HIGHER THROUGH ARTS INTEGRATION

FUND-IN-NEED PROJECT SUMMARY To accomplish our goals, we will invest in: 
How can art build community? How can
children experience the connectedness VISUAL ARTS STUDIO 
between the arts disciplines, their academic - Adjustable arts tables 
classes, and the world? How can we help - Storage for 2D and 3D art 
children create meaning from what they
experience as learners? DRAMA STUDIO
- Floor 
To improve students' arts-integrated learning - Flexible seating 
experiences, we seek to modernize our
existing arts studios as well as to create an MUSIC STUDIO
innovative hub for arts integration at AACA. - Effective instrument storage 
- Expanded range of musical instruments
Located on the school's second floor, our Arts
Integration Hub will create an environment ARTS INTEGRATION HUB
that further connects the dots between - Carpentry, Electrical, Painting
academic and artistic subject matter through - Furnishings
hands-on engagement and small group - Interactive digital monitor
discussion while instilling a courageous - Arts integration faculty professional
curiosity in our community of diverse learners. development
- Instructional resources 

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2013-14 Rockets At Play
Greenview Playground Renovation

2014-15 Rockets Renovate
Parish Gym Transformation

FIVE YEARS OF FUND-IN-NEED

HOW YOU HAVE IMPACTED AACA OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Alphonsus Academy has set a bold vision to be Over the past five years, donors like you have
universally recognized as a top elementary given more than a half million dollars toward
school in Chicago.  this vision through our annual fund-in-need
initiative. As a result, every Alphonsus Academy
To achieve this, we focus on the development student now benefits from: 
of the whole child – mind, body, spirit –
through engagement in: - An outdoor oasis of more than 5,000 square
  feet of play space
- An academically rigorous arts-integrative - A vibrant parish gym
curriculum - A safer, smarter Lower Level of our school 
- Strong Catholic formation in a caring and - An innovative iStudio,  a learning environment
supportive community  that ignites imaginations 
- High-quality extra-curricular activities
including arts programming and athletics  In our final year of Vision 2018, our 5-year
- Innovative uses of technology in learning  strategic plan, we aim to raise $75,000 to
- Development and retention of high- invest in arts integration, a pillar of the AACA
performance teachers  mission, during the Art & Soul '18 Fund-in-
Need Paddle Raise Appeal.
This happens in an environment that
continuously seeks to maintain and upgrade We hope you will consider making a gift
the quality of our finances and facilities. during this year's Art & Soul Fund-in-
Need Paddle Raise to help us achieve our
vision.

FIVE YEARS OF SUPPORT

Over the last five years, the incredible people below have made 586 gifts totaling more than $565,000 to
support our vision through fund-in-need projects.  You have created more than 5,000 square feet of outdoor
play space, transformed our parish gym,  renovated our school's lower level, and constructed an awe-inspiring

iStudio. You have impacted instruction for hundreds of children. We cannot thank you enough. 

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