UCLA’s Teacher Education Program (TEP) was founded in 1992 and is guided by eight core principles:

• Embody a social justice agenda
• Foster sustained engagement in teaching and learning
• Attend to the moral, cultural, and political dimensions of teaching
• Blend theory and practice
• Collaborate across institutions and communities
• Participate in collaborative inquiry within communities of practice
• Focus simultaneously on professional education, school reform
  and reinventing the university’s role in K-14 schooling
• Mirror the diverse, caring, anti-racist, socially-responsible learning
  communities