The Educator Micro-Credentials Initiative of Digital Promise

Multi-awarded Dr. Christine Johns is the superintendent of Utica Community Schools, which is the second-largest school district in Michigan. Superintendent Dr. Christine Johns, who earned her PhD from Harvard University, is among only 40 invited national educators to take part in Digital Promise.

Digital Promise involves the collaboration of education leaders, learning technology developers, and researchers, in using technology and research to provide better learning opportunities for all Americans. This independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization has a number of undertakings, including its educator micro-credential initiative.

While educators are learning new skills on a regular basis, it is usually only at the start of their careers that they earn credentials. Hence, Digital Promise is establishing a coalition among educators and partners to create a micro-credential system the will recognize teachers who have mastered certain skills in the course of their career. This will give America’s educational system the capability to regularly identify and disseminate the best practices of the country’s educators and will encourage all teachers to improve their existing skills as well as learn new ones.