Micro-credentials may just be the future of competency-based professional learning in K-12 education. Why? Wherever you are in your understanding of a particular topic, micro-credentialing allows you to move toward concept mastery and the practical application of skills.
Micro-credentials are a relatively new concept in education. They are a form of certification — typically symbolically represented as a digital badge — that operate as a stamp of approval for mastery of a particular skill.
Micro-credentials follow the paradigm of competency-based professional learning by allowing educators to focus on a discrete skill related to their practice — for instance, checking for student understanding — and collect the evidence — such as classroom videos or student work — to demonstrate ability in that specific skill.
Just as SCECHs operate as Michigan’s reward system for honoring teachers for the time they spend on their professional development, micro-credentials operate as a reward system for honoring educators for the competencies they have mastered
Together with the Michigan Association of Superintendents and Administrators (MASA), we’ve designed courses and micro-credential learning experiences that prepare administrators and superintendents with training to address key issues within their districts.
| Courses | |
|---|---|
| Communications Micro-Credential | |
| Communications Micro-Credential: Developing a Communications Plan — Coming soon! | |
| Communications Micro-Credential: Developing a Crisis Communication Plan — Coming soon! | |
| District Leadership Team Micro-Credential | |
| HR Best Practices Micro-Credential: District Framework | |
| HR Discipline Micro-Credential — Coming soon! | |
| HR Evaluation Micro-Credential — Coming soon! | |
| HR Hiring Micro-Credential — Coming soon! | |
Together with the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association (MEMSPA), we’ve designed micro-credential courses that prepare middle and elementary school principals with the training on topics that help them best support their students.
| Leadership & literacy micro-credentials | |
|---|---|
| Leadership & Literacy Part 1 – Action Plan | |
| Leadership & Literacy Part 2 – Resources & Alignment | |
| Leadership & Literacy Part 3 – Reflection | |
| Social emotional learning micro-credentials | |
|---|---|
| Embedding SEL Schoolwide | |
| SEL & Whole Child | |
| Braiding MTSS & SEL | |
| SEL & Family Engagement | |
| Comprehensive Staff Well-Being | |
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Micro-credentials are an innovative way for you to demonstrate and share your educational competencies. You can explore all of the micro-credential courses in our catalog using the link below!
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