Founded 24 years ago and ever-expanding, TCAP is comprised of eight regional sites. TCAP conducts campus-based programs and initiatives that represent a systematic inter-segmental effort to provide arts education professional and leadership development. Each offers professional development programs that seek to examine arts teaching, practice, and research, develop leadership and professional development programs, and deepen discipline specific content and pedagogy in accordance with the California Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards. Such year-round programs include in-depth institutes, professional development series, seminars, leadership development institutes, and customized programs to meet specific client needs. Through its regional leadership and professional development centers, TCAP serves as a learning community of educators, with a focus on teacher as teacher, teacher as learner, teacher as leader, and teacher as artist.

This collaborative network is dedicated to providing the highest quality arts instruction, with a special focus on meeting the needs of English learners (as articulated through the Common Core State Standards), native speakers with low literacy, and students from economically disadvantaged communities. Headquartered at California State University - San Bernardino, TCAP belongs to a larger network of discipline-specific programs known as the California Subject Matter Projects, administered by the University of California, Office of the President.

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