One-Page Pitch: Digital Badging #Leadership by Erin Werra Erin Werra Pitchmaster And now, for something completely different... The Advancing K12 One-Page Pitch Series aims to help team members lead from within. We’ll package up big topics into a comprehensive, concise pitch ready to deliver to stakeholders. This month we are exploring digital badging as an encouraging alternative (or companion) to traditional professional development. We’ve previously examined the challenges in PD and even created a digital badging program, the Future-Ready Teachers group. Now it’s your turn to capture the momentum around this energizing strategy. If you’re jump-starting a new professional development initiative, here’s the compelling information to convince your team leaders, board members, or other stakeholders to give badging a try. ↪ Download the one-page PDF One-page pitch sources: https://www.skyward.com/discover/blog/skyward-blogs/skyward-executive-blog/november-2017/fixing-pd https://learningforward.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/professional_learning_teacher_survey_2017.pdf https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/southwest/pdf/rel_2007033_sum.pdf https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/downloads/report/Micro-Creditials-for-Teachers-September-2017.pdf https://www.skyward.com/discover/blog/skyward-blogs/skyward-executive-blog/january-2017/edtech-playbook-digital-badging https://library.educause.edu/resources/2014/8/7-things-you-should-know-about-badging-for-professional-development https://www.kmsd.edu/cms/lib/WI01919005/Centricity/Domain/240/KMSD%20MC_Flyer.pdf https://www.skyward.com/discover/blog/skyward-blogs/skyward-executive-blog/july-2017/badges-for-future-ready-teachers https://openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/247 Follow-up resource: Subscribe for more If you liked this one-page pitch, enter your email address in the footer below to receive next month’s delivered directly to your inbox! Erin Werra Pitchmaster
