Tucson Values Teachers (TVT) is a regional initiative determined to engage the southern Arizona community in not just talking about the importance of education but also taking action to attract, retain and support teachers. The organization recognizes the critical role teachers play in student achievement and the vital influence they have on Tucson’s future.

Tucson Values Teachers is a regional initiative dedicated to elevating the importance of improving education. We support all educators by working to retain, recruit, and reward them, as well as raise the level of respect for teachers. TVT recognizes the critical role of teachers in our region and the vital influence they have on our community and economy.

Our goal at Arts Integration Solutions is to use the arts to boost student achievement, and to equip teachers to use arts integration to help students succeed in math, science and literacy. Arts Integration Solutions provide professional development, school programming strategies, and resources to teachers, artists, and administrators to employ the arts in the classroom. The ten central tenets that drive our approach of arts integration to academic achievement are engagement, collaboration, agility, knowledge construction, congruence, integrity, insight, skillful assessment, resiliency, and visionary leadership.Arts Integration Solutions seeks to:- share the best resources for arts integration with teachers and teaching artists across the nation- provide training for teachers, teaching artists and school teams- support school teams in building a strategy and implementing arts integration in their schools- build a network of teachers, artists, administrators and leaders who seek to learn from each other- help every student in every classroom succeed through arts integration