Microcredentials

Quality classroom assessment practices renew a focus on day-to-day, minute-by-minute learning that improves student outcomes. Through formative assessment practices, students know where they are in their learning, where they need to go and how to get there. Teachers have information they need to inform their next instructional steps. And families have more useful information to know how their student is doing in school. 

This stack is designed to help educators develop skills and build understandings that support a Bully Free Environment for our schools. In this stack you will learn how to create a bully free environment for your students by recognizing the signs of bullying and intervening in an appropriate way. You may also explore local, State or Federal policies as they apply to bullying in schools and use this knowledge to influence best practices in your own school. 

This stack is designed to help classroom educators to develop skills to successfully build a community of learners. You will have an opportunity to explore classroom organization and routines, as well as discover new ways to support students who have behavioral challenges due to trauma or other circumstances. 

This stack is designed to help educators understand the complexities of teaching students who are learning English as a second language. This stack covers multiple topics that will support you in understanding language acquisition theories and then applying this knowledge to design effective assessment and instruction to support students learning English. You will also have an opportunity to explore ways in which to advocate for you English Language Learners and their families. 

The Micro-Credential Stack equips educators with crucial skills for supporting multilingual students. In this stack, you will learn to advocate for the rights of multilingual learners, incorporate culturally relevant pedagogy, and strengthen connections with their families and caregivers. Additionally, you will gain expertise in utilizing standards-based instruction and implementing equitable assessment practices. This comprehensive stack ensures educators are well-prepared to create inclusive, effective, and supportive learning environments for all students.

This stack is meant to help all educators support exceptional students in their classroom. The focus of this stack is collaboration with stakeholders, understanding federal policies and providing support to students with exceptional needs. 

Strengthening family, school, and community bonds is a critical factor in raising student achievement, closing achievement gaps, and attaining school improvement goals. In this stack you will learn a variety of ways that you can strengthen your relationships with families and community members. 

With the adverse of zero tolerance discipline policy and the development of the school to prison pipeline, school districts across the country have looked for different ways to improve school climate and alternative ways for addressing misbehaviors.

Restorative Practice is a set of practices and values that holistically prevents and repairs harm, builds community, and relationships resulting in a positive supportive school climate.

Each micro-credential in this stack can stand alone but it is recommended that if you want to gain the skills needed to fully implement restorative practices in your classroom or school you should do these micro-credentials sequentially, as the skills do build on each other.

This stack of Micro-credentials is based off of the new ISTE Standards for Educators. The ISTE standards were created to support educators in preparing students for their futures. These micro-credentials focus on critical thinking and knowledge students need to thrive in a global and digital world. 

The impact of traumatic experiences is so significant that it can hinder the brain’s normal development. This disruption causes behavioral, emotional, academic, and other developmental changes. Seemingly simple things like a facial expression, one’s proximity, or tone of voice, may trigger memories of a painful event. This can lead to aggression, isolation, perfectionism, and more. Evidence suggests that with supportive educators and a healing-centered school community, students can learn, achieve, and begin to heal. 

This stack of micro-credentials is designed to support all educators who wish to integrate the arts into classroom instruction. According to the Kennedy Center, Art integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. By earning these micro-credentials educators will develop skills to support true art integration and apply these strategies into their own classroom context. 

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions (CASEL, 2023). This set of micro-credentials describes how five core social and emotional competencies are relevant in the daily lives of educators and ways to continually develop areas of competence as adults.

Co-teaching is a teaching approach that involves two or more educators working together in the same classroom. Co-teachers share the responsibility for planning, instruction, and assessment. This approach is not only beneficial for students with special needs, it is beneficial for all students, as it allows for more individualized attention and support. These micro-credentials will provide the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in co-teaching and help educators create a more inclusive learning environment for all students.

This stack is aligned with the InTASC Core Teaching Standards and designed to support ongoing teacher effectiveness to ensure students reach college and career ready standards. The micro-credentials in this stack fall under these four categories: The Learner and Learning, Content Knowledge, Instructional Practice and Professional Responsibility. 

This stack is aligned with the InTASC Core Teaching Standards and designed to support ongoing teacher effectiveness to ensure students reach college and career ready standards. The micro-credentials in this stack fall under these four categories: The Learner and Learning, Content Knowledge, Instructional Practice and Professional Responsibility. 

This stack is aligned with the InTASC Core Teaching Standards and designed to support ongoing teacher effectiveness to ensure students reach college and career ready standards. The micro-credentials in this stack fall under these four categories: The Learner and Learning, Content Knowledge, Instructional Practice and Professional Responsibility. 

This stack is aligned with the InTASC Core Teaching Standards and designed to support ongoing teacher effectiveness to ensure students reach college and career ready standards. The micro-credentials in this stack fall under these four categories: The Learner and Learning, Content Knowledge, Instructional Practice and Professional Responsibility. 

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) eight Standards for Mathematical Practice describe “ways in which developing student practitioners of the discipline of mathematics increasingly ought to engage with the subject matter as they grow in mathematical maturity and expertise through the elementary, middle and high school years.” (CCSS) This stack will explore each of the eight Standards of Mathematical Practice and how teachers apply these practices to the mathematical content they are teaching. Each micro-credential will focus on how educators can use these practices to create a more rigorous and engaging mathematics classroom. 

This stack is designed to help cooperating teachers develop the necessary skills to successfully support student teachers or early career educators. In this stack you will hone your communication skills and develop strategies for working with adult learners. You will learn about observations and effective ways to provide feedback to your student teacher. You may also explore ways to build positive professional relationships and manage difficult conversations.