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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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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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How to Integrate Computational Thinking with “Look Fors”

Digital Promise

Digital Promise has been working with districts and educators from across the United States to integrate computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) into K-12 classrooms. Look for” documents show promise for districts committed to developing their own K-12 computing pathways. Share your thoughts with us.

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

Digital Promise

Digital Promise gathered developers, researchers, educators, and thought leaders from the educator professional development field on January 9-10 in Redwood City, California, for The Future of Educator Micro-credentials Summit. To learn more about the Educator Micro-credentials initiative, visit here.

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Making an environment where teachers can create bespoke lessons

The Hechinger Report

. In their transition to using more personalized learning, the Bristol-Warren Regional School District in Rhode Island made professional development a priority. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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OPINION: Is home-based public school the next big thing for 3-year-olds?

The Hechinger Report

Based on conversations with more than 20 stakeholders and education experts in New York City, the report also looks to other cities and states for lessons. In a white paper last month, the city’s education department committed to maintaining the city’s capacity of subsidized infant and toddler care.

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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. Their guiding question was: “How can we structure the economics of micro-credentials to provide value beyond professional development to educators?”.