Cedarcrest-Southmoor Elementary is currently the only elementary school in East Baton Rouge Parish that is TAP School. TAP stands for Teacher Advancement Program. It is a nationally recognized program. For more information, you can visit the Teacher Advancement Program Foundation site, or the Louisiana Department of Education.

Cedarcrest-Southmoor has been recognized nationally by the Teacher Advancement program as being a model school for how a TAP instructionally focused model should look. The article, Instructionally Focused Accountability Drives High Quality Teaching and Learning, describes how all teachers work together to produce an environment that helps both students and teachers grow.

Cedarcrest-Southmoor has been visited many times by guests to observe TAP in action. One such group included a group of educators from Oxfordshire, England. For more information about their visit, please refer to the article titled, English Scholars Observe TAP at Work.