- January 2019
- State Board Adopts New VAPA Standards
- Framework still in progress through 2019
- A call for volunteer expert panels to form consisting of Theatre education professionals to develop the Subject Matter Requirements (SMRs) based on the new standards and the Teacher Performance Expectations (TPEs)
- State Board Adopts New VAPA Standards
- January 2020
- Adopt SMRs for Theatre
- Adopt TPEs for Theatre
- Begin work to develop the CSETs
- As SMRs and TPEs are developed undergraduate Theatre departments can work on their "waiver" programs: those CTC approved programs that will waive the need to take a CSET; CTC is streamlining the waiver process
- Summer 2021
- Exams finished, tested, and ready for official use
- Fall 2021
- First cohorts of candidates enter Theatre credentialing programs throughout the state
- May 2022
- First cohort of Theatre credential candidates complete credentialing