STATEWIDE PROGRAMS

Leadership Academy
This event alternates with leadership events as needed. Leaders from all sites gather in one location to engage in leadership development (e.g., standards, assessment team- and community-building, participant observation, casewriting), activities related to TCAP as a whole (e.g., PDPS development, on-line work), and arts processes work.

Leadership Events
These five-day events focus on particular issues of importance to TCAP members and the work of the project. Each site sends representatives to each event so that all sites move forward together.

INITIATIVES

Diversity Initiatives
TCAP has been involved in a number of activities related to various aspects of diversity including inclusivity and authenticity of arts content and access to arts education for all students.

On-line Initiatives
In order to decrease isolation and improve communication among arts educators in California, TCAP has been involved in a number of on-line initiatives.

Middle Schools Demonstration Program
TCAP works closely with schools that have received MSDP grants from the California Department of Education for professional development in the Visual and Performing Arts and offers programs specifically for these schools.

Literacy Initiative
TCAP has been exploring issues relating to arts literacy. Key questions include: What is literacy in the arts? How do the arts contribute to cognitive development as a whole and reading in particular? A successful Arts/Literacy workshop was conducted last year for K- 3 teachers.

Exploring Documentation and Reflection Processes
TCAP has been active in exploring a number of educational processes that serve both to document its work and enable members to reflect on TCAP activities and its effect on their own professional lives. Two of these processes are case-writing and participant observation.

Arts Assessment
TCAP and its members have been active in exploring various means of arts assessment. TCAP has held its own events centering on assessment. TCAP members have also been engaged in their own work and work with other agencies focusing on assessment in the arts.

Research
TCAP has begun exploring the role of teacher research in arts education as well as collaborative research between university faculty and k-12 teachers.

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