Micro-credentials

Building External Relationships is one of three micro-credentials in the Relationship stack. Each relationship micro-credential (Building Personal Relationships, Building Internal Relationships, and Building External Relationships) represents a unique, strategic relationship skill set.

Building Personal Relationships is one of three micro-credentials in the Relationship stack. Each relationship micro-credential (Building Personal Relationships, Building Internal Relationships, and Building External Relationships) represents a unique strategic relationships skill set.

Leading for Health/Life Safety – An Annual Life Safety Study is a standalone micro-credential in a series from the Illinois Association of School Boards Officials (IASBO). The Leading for Health/Life Safety micro-credential represents a unique set of skills essential to an educational leader for preparing, facilitating, identifying, and collecting the components, activities and data needed to successfully complete the HLS (Health/Life Safety) annual study inspection and audit conducted by their Illinois county’s “Regional Office of Education” (ROE).

Collective Bargaining is a standalone micro-credential in a series of MCs offered by Illinois Association of School Boards Officials (IASBO). The Collective Bargaining micro-credential represents a unique set of skills essential to an educational leader (superintendent, assistant superintendent, business manager, etc.) preparing and facilitating collective bargaining strategies and procedures.

Promoting Collaborative Instruction is one of three micro-credentials in the Instruction stack. Each data literacy micro-credential (Promoting Collaborative Instruction, Ensuring Instructional Alignment, and Providing Effective Instruction) represents a unique instructional leadership skill set.

Ensuring Instructional Alignment is one of three micro-credentials in the Instruction stack. Each data literacy micro-credential (Promoting Collaborative Instruction, Ensuring Instructional Alignment, and Providing Effective Instruction) represents a unique instructional leadership skill set.

The Building Internal Relationships micro-credential involves the school participant’s ability to: institute structures and strategies for building rapport and establishing high expectations for behavior and learning with students.

Leading Vision and Mission is one of two micro-credentials in the Vision and Mission stack. Each vision and mission micro-credential (Leading Vision and Mission and Driving Vision and Mission) represents a unique, strategic planning skill set.

Implementing Data-Driven Decision-Making is one of two micro-credentials in the Results Oriented stack. Each leadership Results Oriented micro-credential (Implementing Data-Driven Decision Making and Creating a Results Oriented Culture) represents a unique, strategic leadership skill set.

Fostering a Data Literacy Culture is one of three micro-credentials in the Data Literacy stack. Each data literacy micro-credential (Fostering a Data Literacy Culture, Managing Data Literacy Systems, Leading Data Literacy) represents a unique data literacy leadership skill set.

Driving Vision and Mission is one of two micro-credentials in the Vision and Mission stack. Each vision and mission micro-credential (Leading Vision and Mission and Driving Vision and Mission) represents a unique, strategic planning skill set.

Creating a Results Oriented Learning Culture is one of two micro-credentials in the Results Oriented stack. Each leadership Results Oriented micro-credential (Implementing Data-Driven Decision Making and Creating a Results Oriented Culture) represents a unique, strategic leadership skill set.

The Meeting All Academic Needs micro-credential involves the following from the practitioner: ability to collaboratively facilitate and provide structures and processes which ensure implementation of a comprehensive, rigorous, and aligned curriculum; the practitioner demonstrates the ability to establish a collaborative, trusting environment and high-quality, rigorous curriculum focused on individual student growth, achievement, and continuous improvement; and the practitioner demonstrates the ability to facilitate and collaboratively implement a plan that aligns assessment and instruction with the curriculum, while also monitoring continuous student improvement.

Providing Effective Instruction is one of three micro-credentials in the Instruction stack. Each micro-credential (Promoting Instructional Trust and Collaboration, Providing Effective Instruction, and Ensuring Alignment for Learning) represents a unique, strategic approach to help principals to assist teachers improve instructional practice. The role of an effective principal is to ensure that all teachers use those instructional practices that maximize learning for all students. They do this by building awareness and the capacity of all teachers to use evidence-based instructional practices. Therefore, principals must possess the skills to provide meaningful, actionable feedback to prompt continuous improvement of a teacher’s ability to deliver high-quality instruction (MLDS, 2020). The Instruction stack encompasses all necessary skill sets and abilities to demonstrate competency needed by an educational leader for recognizing and developing excellent instruction.

Managing Data Literacy Systems is one of three micro-credentials in the Data Literacy stack. Each data literacy micro-credential (Fostering a Data Literacy Culture, Managing Data Literacy Systems, Leading Data Literacy) represents a unique data literacy leadership skill set.

Leading Data Literacy is one of three micro-credentials in the Data Literacy stack. Each data literacy micro-credential (Fostering a Data Literacy Culture, Managing Data Literacy Systems, Leading Data Literacy) represents a unique data literacy leadership skill set.

Valuing and Celebrating Traditions is the second of three micro-credentials in the Traditions and Celebrations stack. Each leadership traditions and celebration micro-credential (Leading and Promoting Tolerance, Valuing and Celebrating Traditions, and Driving a Culture of Service) represents a unique, strategic leadership skill set.

Driving a Culture of Service is one of three micro-credentials in the Traditions and Celebrations stack. Each leadership traditions and celebration micro-credential (Leading and Promoting Tolerance, Valuing and Celebrating Traditions/Culture, and Driving a Culture of Service) represents a unique, strategic leadership skill set.

Leading and Promoting Tolerance is one of three micro-credentials in the Traditions and Celebrations stack. Each leadership traditions and celebration micro-credential (Leading and Promoting Tolerance, Valuing and Celebrating Traditions/Culture, and Driving a Culture of Service) represents a unique, strategic leadership skill set.

Personal Skills engage the practitioner in self-development to enhance communication abilities in conducting self-evaluations of oral (NASSP, 2014, p. 81) and written communication skills, soliciting feedback, reflecting on enhancing and exemplifying communication for school, district staff and stakeholder groups (p. 97).  Strong personal skills are clear, direct, constructive and compelling.