Micro-Credentials

Description: Learners will review the Designer's Guide, and create a Learning Plan for their own micro-credential.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Substitute Teacher

Instructor: Michelle McKinney

Approximate Completion Time: 2.5 Hours

Description: Participants will learn how accelerating learning differs from remediation and what accelerating learning looks like in math. Participants will practice by using the steps in the process to accelerate learning to plan an upcoming math unit.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Middle School / Junior High, PreK-12th, Special Education Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Donna Sump Mcclain, Tera Schechinger

Approximate Completion Time: 5 Hours

Description: Learn the importance of active listening in building a positive relationship, promoting engagement, and supporting a student who is in distress or reports a mental health concern.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Leah Olson

Approximate Completion Time: 1.5 Hours

Description: This micro-credential provides an overview of the book “Atomic Habits,” by James Clear. In it, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for how to create good habits, break bad ones, and get 1 percent better every day. These concepts can be applied today, both personally and professionally.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Leah Olson

Approximate Completion Time: 1.5 Hours

Description: We all have basic needs, as do the children and students we work with. Explore Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as it relates to the adults and children you work with. Reflect on how those needs impact your daily live and the lives of your students.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Substitute Teacher

Instructor: Gina Durfee

Approximate Completion Time: 1 Hour

Description: This micro-credential will provide instruction in administering and scoring the Battista (Cognition Based Assessment) for Addition/Subtraction.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Donna Sump Mcclain, Tera Schechinger

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This micro-credential will provide instruction in administering and scoring the Battista (Cognition-based Assessment) Fractions.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Donna Sump Mcclain, Tera Schechinger

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This micro-credential will provide instruction in administering and scoring the Battista (Cognition-based Assessment) Multiplication/Division.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Donna Sump Mcclain, Tera Schechinger

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This micro-credential will provide instruction in administering and scoring the Battista (Cognition-based Assessment) Place Value

Audience: Elementary,High School,Middle School / Junior High,

Instructor: Donna Sump Mcclain, Tera Schechinger

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: Participants will learn to support students, deepen reflection and collaboration, involve families as partners in teaching and learning, get organized, work with or as a co-teacher, and more! Once you are “official”, you’ll have access to exclusive resources from Seesaw and be able to connect with other Pioneers.

Audience: Certified Staff, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: Create: combine text, audio, video, drawings, photos and appsmash other content! Read: have your book read to you in multiple languages, with word highlighting and page turning. Publish: share your book online, download as an ePub file or print it as a PDF Empower the voice and creativity of your students when you earn your Book Creator Certified Author credential and complete this microcredential.

Audience: AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

 Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 3.5 Hours

Description: Our brains are all designed the same way. Learn about brain development, how it relates to our stress response, and how stress can impact our health. Explore strategies to reduce stress for our students and for ourselves. Make connections between how the stress response impacts those around us, as well as impacting our own well-being.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, High School, Instructional Coach, Paraeducator, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Substitute Teacher

Instructor: Gina Durfee

Approximate Completion Time: 1.5 Hours

Description: One of the free Iowa AEA Online Resources is “Britannica ImageQuest.” With over 3 million images from renowned sources such as Getty Images, the Science Photo Library, Ingram Publishing, and the National Geographic Society that have joined with Britannica to provide the best and broadest offering of curriculum-relevant imagery and clip art materials (infographics, signs, and symbols, graphic concepts, and vector illustrations), all rights-cleared for educational, noncommercial use. In this micro-credential, you’ll learn all the site’s features and options for use in multimedia projects, newsletters, presentations, posters, podcasts, and more!

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: With Canva, you and your students can create and design anything! Presentations, videos, infographics, Zoom backgrounds, posters, worksheets, reports, flyers, newsletters, and more! Plus, Canva has now partnered with Pear Deck and Flipgrid! There are thousands of templates to choose from or you can start from scratch! With an education account, you can set up classes (or import from Google Classroom), manage lessons, activities, or projects. You can create assignments and review/approve work. In this micro-credential, you will learn how to use Canva, explore templates, build your confidence in designing, set up a class, and create an original product that will be shared with your students.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This micro-credential will provide an overview of the role diagnostic assessment plays in mathematics. This overview is a prerequisite for the other micro-credentials in this learning strand.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Middle School / Junior High,

Instructor: Donna Sump Mcclain, Tera Schechinger

Approximate Completion Time: 1 Hour

Description: This offering provides basic information about Dyslexia: what it is, what it might look like in the classroom, and some simple accommodations to immediately apply as a teacher. Participants will watch three short videos about Dyslexia, as well as, read a slide deck with warning signs for Dyslexia. In addition, an infographic of basic facts about Dyslexia provides foundational understanding of the topic. No prerequisites.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: Use EdPuzzle to create video lessons, embed formative assessment, create and manage classes, and monitor student progress and understanding. This is a great way to “flip” your classroom and allow students to learn at their own pace and provide differentiated instruction.

Audience: PreK-12th

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: Participants will engage in learning about different vocabulary tiers and how they can be used in the classroom. In the first activity, participants will distinguish between vocabulary tiers within a content-area text. Participants will take part in two vocabulary strategies and have time to explore multiple vocabulary resources that can be applied to many different content areas. To end the module, participants will reflect on the resources reviewed, as well as create a lesson plan integrating one or more vocabulary strategies.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time:  2 Hours

Description: This micro-credential takes the research and provides practical implications for the reading brain. In this learning, you will watch one video and read a short article that will provide an overview of Ehri’s Four Phases of Reading and Writing.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers,

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 1 Hour

Description: "Effective teaching of mathematics uses evidence of student thinking to assess progress toward mathematical understanding and to adjust instruction continually in ways that support and extend learning.” As teachers, we need to implement tasks that elicit student thinking, we need to learn about students' understanding and thinking from their work. Lastly, as teachers, we need to adjust instruction based on student understanding of the learning goal. This micro-credential introduces teachers to these ideas and includes classroom applications.

Audience: Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Tera Schechinger, Donna Sump Mcclain

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: There are no prerequisites for this micro-credential. The participants will have access to resources that will guide them through understanding and implementing Elkonin boxes with multiple modes. Elkonin (also known as Sound Boxes) is an evidence-based scaffold and strategy to help students, particularly in the early stages of learning how to read and write, make connections between the sounds they hear and the letters and form syllables and words. This strategy is immediately applicable to students in the classroom.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, Paraeducator, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: In this micro-credential, you will learn to: Recognize that humans experience emotions; Understand that emotions are not good or bad; Recognize the difference between an emotional scientist and an emotional judge; Understand how our emotions impact others; and Create a self-care plan to help with your own regulation.

Audience: Paraeducators, Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, AEA Staff

Instructor: Gina Durfee

Approximate Completion Time: 1 Hour

Description: “Effective teaching of mathematics establishes clear goals for the mathematics students are learning, situates goals within learning progressions, and uses goals to guide instructional decisions.” As teachers, we need to establish clear goals for students and use the goal to guide instruction. This micro-credential introduces teachers to these ideas and includes classroom applications.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Tera Schechinger, Donna Sump Mcclain

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: Crosscutting concepts, one of the three dimensions of the science standards, have applications across all domains of science. As such, they are a way of linking the different domains of science together and provide a framework for us to make sense of the world around us. This learning block will take a closer look at the importance of these concepts as a whole, how they mesh and support one another within the science standards, and how students demonstrate their understanding of them over the course of their K-12 journey to become a scientifically literate person. *This micro-credential assumes you are comfortable with/have completed the objectives outlined in the “Introduction to the Science Standards” micro-credential.

Audience: Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High, PreK-12th, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Kim Wise

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: The science and engineering practices, one of the three dimensions of the science standards, often represent the “doing” part of science. When students engage in these practices they do things like asking questions, analyzing data, and engaging in argument from evidence. This learning block will take a closer look at the importance of these practices as a whole, how they mesh and support one another within the science standards, and how students demonstrate their understanding of them over the course of their K-12 journey to become a scientifically literate person. *This micro-credential assumes you are comfortable with/have completed the objectives outlined in the “Introduction to the Science Standards” micro-credential.

Audience: Certified Staff, Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach

Instructor: Kim Wise

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: Effective teaching of mathematics facilitates discourse among students to build shared understanding of mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing student approaches and arguments. As teachers, we need to facilitate discourse among students, including written and verbal. We also need to anticipate the correct and incorrect solution paths students will take in order to select and sequence a mathematical discussion.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Tera Schechinger, Donna Sump Mcclain

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This personalized approach to earning renewal credit includes the following pathways: 1. Complete a minimum of 15 instructional hours via micro-credentials. 2. Participate in a pre-approved conference related to your role in education. 3. Complete a minimum of 15 instructional hours by “bundling” a combination of self-paced learning. Mandatory training can be included in this option!

Audience: Everyone

Instructor: Michelle McKinney

Approximate Completion Time: N/A

Description: Let’s go on an adventure! Google Earth is the world’s most detailed globe! Fly over the Grand Canyon, explore landmarks and cities at street view, measure the distance around your town or farm, get detailed directions from one location to another. You can also explore space or under the sea. Google Earth is a tool that all students (and teachers) should be able to navigate and use for learning in any content area. This micro-credential will help you learn the basics of Google Earth Pro, allow you time to explore, and ask you to make a plan for your students to use this tool to support their learning and understanding of the Earth while also learning core concepts in social studies, geography, math, literacy, science and more!

Audience: AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, PreK-12th, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: Let's fly around the world, explore 3D cities, take guided tours, and create maps and stories. This resource can be used across the curriculum - math, literacy, social studies, science, foreign language and more! In this micro-credential, you will explore all of the features of Google Earth Web and then create a story/project as an example or learning resource for your students.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: Learners will explore a "PL Considerations Guide" as well as examples of different PL formats to determine the best option for their learning opportunity. They will brainstorm different ideas for micro-credentials, narrow their ideas and choose ONE to move forward with.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Substitute Teacher

Instructor: Michelle McKinney

Approximate Completion Time: 1 Hour

Description: Learners will explore research and results from "early adopters" of micro-credentials to inform their design knowledge.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Substitute Teacher

Instructor: Michelle McKinney

Approximate Completion Time: 1.5 Hours

Description: This microcredential explores the structure and new vision of the Iowa Science standards. Engaging in this work sets the stage for future learning around the three dimensions of the science standards and how to best put the new vision into practice. Participants will reflect on their current teaching and learning reality related to the science standards and identify future work to move the vision forward in their own classroom.

Audience: Certified Staff, Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach

Instructor: Kim Wise

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: This offering provides basic information about Dyslexia: what it is, what it might look like in the classroom, and some simple accommodations to immediately apply. As stipulated in Senate File 2536 signed into law in 2020, current educators must complete the Dyslexia Overview module by July 2024. Teachers hired after 2024 will complete the module within one year of being hired if they have not already completed it. Educators should contact their supervisors with any questions related to fulfilling this requirement. No prerequisites are required.

Audience: All

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: This course is designed to introduce educators to the fundamentals of systematic and explicit literacy instruction, including strategies for setting objectives, sequencing skills, and providing practice and review.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary , Instructional Coach, Interventionists, PreK-12th, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: This course is designed to provide educators with a strategy for promoting oral language and narrative development skills by conducting an Interactive Reading session

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Middle School / Junior High, PreK-12th, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: This module provides information on the key elements of the literacy block, preparing students for small-group instruction, and planning the delivery of small-group instruction.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Middle School / Junior High, PreK-12th, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: Before students can sound out words and become proficient readers, they must know how to pronounce letters (graphemes) and letter combinations that make up the sounds (phonemes) in words. In this module, participants will learn about grapheme-phoneme mapping and its importance for literacy development, a strategy for teaching grapheme-phoneme mapping, how to support English learners developing these skills, and how to prepare students for peer-mediated and independent practice.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: In this micro-credential you will learn how to use Kami EDU and the Kami Extension to transform any static document, PDF, images and other resources into an interactive learning experience. You will learn how to utilize the navigation bar and tools, how to use Kami across content areas as well as how to integrate Kami with the learning management system of your choice (Google Classroom, Canvas or Schoology). Upon completion of this micro-credential, you will be a Kami Certified Educator Level 1 and have created an interactive deliverable for your students. Your facilitator will be Amy Pattee.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This micro-credential is designed for Level 1 Kami Certified Educators who are looking to further their Kami training. You’ll be introduced to more dynamic ways you can use Kami, and help you identify and solve common issues that teachers and students may encounter when using Kami as well as troubleshooting problems found in Kami’s integration with Google Classroom, Canvas and Schoology– so be sure to watch the lesson that applies to the Learning Management System you use. Upon completion of this micro-credential, you will be a Kami Certified Educator Level 2 and have developed a lesson/activity utilizing an interactive pdf you have created. Your facilitator will be Amy Pattee.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: Become a MackinVIA expert and optimize your students’ digital reading experience! This free course, offered through the Teachable platform, will take you through the basics of setting up your MackinVIA account and will give you an opportunity to explore some of the many ways you will be able to customize and utilize your MackinVIA digital library to engage students in literacy. This micro-credential will follow the certification course offered through Mackin/Teachable. Upon completion, you will receive 4 hours of micro-credential credit from GHAEA.

Audience: Librarians, PreK-12th

Instructor: Amy Pattee

Approximate Completion Time: 4 Hours

Description: All teachers in Iowa schools now have access to the premium version of Pear Deck! By using this add on to Google Slides, you can easily create engaging, interactive lessons! You can add Pear Deck interactivity to existing slides or new ones. In this microcredential, you will learn how to use Pear Deck, spend some time looking at the premade templates, create a lesson for your students, and become familiar with the teacher dashboard.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Substitute Teacher

Instructor: Heather Lundquist

Approximate Completion Time: 4 Hours

Description: “Effective teaching of mathematics uses purposeful questions to assess and advance students’ reasoning and sense making about important mathematical ideas and relationships.” As teachers, we need to be strategic about the questions that are being asked to students. Questions need not be just about gathering information. Questions should be planned before a lesson and careful thought should be taken to plan for assessing and advancing questions.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Tera Schechinger, Donna Sump Mcclain

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: Standards alone will not ensure that all students will learn mathematics at high levels. In 2014, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics published, Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All. Principles to Actions includes 6 guiding principles in teaching and learning mathematics based on over 25 years of research.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Tera Schechinger, Donna Sump Mcclain

Approximate Completion Time:  2 Hours

Description: This micro-credential takes the research and provides practical implications for the reading brain. In this learning, you will watch four short videos and read a short article that will provide an overview of two models for literacy: The Four-Part Processor and Carol Tolman’s HourGlass. The content will help you understand how Carol Tolman’s HourGlass Model was created using Seidenberg and McClelland’s research of The Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood ,Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: This micro-credential will provide instruction in administering and scoring the GloSS.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High

Instructor: Tera Schechinger, Donna Sump Mcclain

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This micro-credential will help you learn how to administer and score the JAM diagnostic assessment.

Audience: Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary

Instructor: Tera Schechinger, Donna Sump Mcclain

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This micro-credential takes the research and provides practical implications for the reading brain. In this learning, you will watch two short videos and read two short articles that will provide an overview of two models for literacy: The Simple View of Reading and Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope. The content will help you understand how both word recognition and language comprehension are necessary in order to have strong reading comprehension.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 3 Hours

Description: This micro-credential takes the research and provides practical implications for writing development. In this learning, you will watch one webinar and read a short article that will provide an overview of two models for writing: The Simple View of Writing and Joan Sedita’s Writing Rope.

Audience: Administration, AEA Staff, Certified Staff, Classified Staff, Classroom Teacher, District Staff, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Interventionists, Librarians, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, PreK-12th, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Special Education Teacher, Substitute Teacher, Title 1 Teachers

Instructor: Jennifer Johnson

Approximate Completion Time: 2 Hours

Description: In the first micro-credential of this strand, learners will become familiar with what a micro-credential is and isn't, why they are a useful alternative from traditional PD and how to get started with designing one.

Audience: Administration, Classroom Teacher, Early Childhood, Elementary, High School, Instructional Coach, Middle School / Junior High, Paraeducator, School Counselor, School Psychologist, School Social Worker, Substitute Teacher

Instructor: Michelle McKinney

Approximate Completion Time: .5 Hours