As our students develop teaching skills, they deserve recognition for their growth. Microcredentials are performance-based assessments that allow rising educators to showcase their growing skills.

The “Beginning to Teach” micro-credential topics are listed at the Digital Promise website. Read more about the micro-credentials and best practices for submission..

Updated Micro-credential Offerings

In alignment with the updates we’re preparing for the 2025-2026 school year with Educators Rising Curriculum, starting April 30, 2025, our micro-credential stack will be updated with the following 5 offerings:

• Lesson Design: The rising educator analyzes the underlying strategies and active practices of effective lesson design that skilled educators implement and sustain.
• Effective Classroom Leadership: The rising educator learns how to lead an effective classroom by using high-leverage classroom management practices including establishing clear expectations, providing consistent feedback, and developing strong teacher-student relationships for a structured and supportive classroom.
• Collaboration: The rising educator strategically and successfully seeks out, synthesizes, and incorporates relevant ideas from other educators into his/her own instructional practice.
• Formative Assessment: The rising educator finds ways to spur student growth through the creative, knowledgeable usage of formative assessment strategies.
• Learner Engagement: The rising educator strategically hooks and sustains learners’ engagement throughout a learning experience.

Each microcredential submission requires an estimated 5–15 hours of work, and rising educators are encouraged to earn them all. Upon completion of each microcredential, students earn a digital badge to showcase on their professional profiles. For each micro-credential, you’ll find submission criteria, a research base, recommended resources for preparing a submission, and a scoring rubric.

Students submit digital portfolios to demonstrate mastery of each of the five competencies. Submissions are reviewed by expert educators, ensuring that achieving a micro-credential represents a meaningful early step on a rising educator’s path to accomplished teaching. Educators Rising is working with colleges, scholarship committees, employers, and other evaluators to recognize and value micro-credential achievement.

The Educators Rising micro-credentials were developed in partnership with Digital Promise, which is leading an innovative effort to develop an educator micro-credential ecosystem.

• For more information about the micro-credentials contact us at info@educatorsrising.org.
• Ready to submit your micro-credential? Read the micro-credential submission best practices.