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Strengthen Professional Learning with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Micro-credentials present a unique opportunity to link professional learning to practice. Through each competency-based credential, educators demonstrate application of their learning. For districts to formally integrate micro-credentials into professional learning, they must: Build awareness and encourage educator buy-in.

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Valuing Professional Learning through Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Districts across the nation are exploring a new approach to professional learning to meet the evolving needs of today’s diverse classrooms and the educators who lead them. We look forward to continuing to learn from them and the many other states and districts engaging with micro-credentials for professional learning.

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Educator Micro-credentials are Grounded in Research

Digital Promise

Micro-credentials offer an important opportunity for educators to strengthen their professional learning. Digital Promise’s new white paper examines how the organization has ensured the content of micro-credentials and the process for earning them are anchored in rigorous research. Digital Promise is the gold standard. …

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The Power of Local and National Community Connections

Digital Promise

Including school districts, government, universities, the private sector and many more stakeholders, this network of networks is uniquely positioned to design, launch, iterate on, and disseminate breakthrough learning practices and tools. Within their local context, EdClusters drive powerful change within their communities.

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Fine-tuning learning spaces for neurodiverse students

eSchool News

While there are neurodiverse students in every school in the country, many learning environments are not designed to address their unique gifts and needs. Enhance professional learning by ensuring educators remain informed about the latest research and inclusive practices, including teaching strategies.

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

Tell us about some of those learning beliefs, about what you want your classrooms to look like. Tell us about your learning beliefs. So we actually learned through Education Reimagined. We read their white paper for transforming teaching and Learning. Lynn: Sure. We’ve adopted some of their core beliefs.

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Moving from Challenges to Solutions: The Future of Educator Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Moving from Investigate to Act, participants identified two solutions: creating micro-credentials to “certify” local assessors and developing a stack of micro-credentials for district leaders seeking to implement culture change around professional learning.

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