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Confidentiality for School Social Workers
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Microcredential ID : 3025
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Record Keeping and Privacy
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a social worker’s understanding of and compliance with record keeping and privacy in a school setting. When records are kept for a student, they become a part of the student’s educational record, which has implications for privacy and confidentiality when considering mental health notes/records.

Consistent, Organized, and Respectful Learning Environment
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Microcredential ID : 2749
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Utah's High Leverage Practices for Classroom Instruction
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to establish a consistent, organized, and respectful learning environment.

Contraception, Including Abstinence
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Microcredential ID : 2957
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Health Endorsement: Human Sexuality
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective instruction on contraception, including abstinence. This is the third microcredential in the Human Sexuality stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Coordinate Plane
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Microcredential ID : 2926
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Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Geometry, Measurement, and Data
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a teacher’s ability to understand and respond to progressions related to the coordinate plane by planning and implementing instruction based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice and Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices. It involves selecting, using, and adapting mathematics curricula and teaching materials, including the integration of mathematical tools and technology, as well as using and analyzing formative and summative assessments to determine students' understanding of the coordinate plane. This microcredential is the fourth of five in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Understand and Implement Concepts of Measurement Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Creating a Culture of Feedback
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Microcredential ID : 2655
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Feedback
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to go beyond just telling a learner they did a good job. It is not even simply giving good feedback on assignments. Creating a culture of feedback means creating an environment in which giving, receiving, and acting upon feedback is continual. Learners and educators are all part of the process in which all parties reflect upon work (both their own and others') and give critical feedback. learners and educators also receive and act upon feedback as a matter of course. Feedback provided is immediate, specific, and continuous, and is acted upon in a constructive manner.

Creating a Literacy-Rich Environment
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Microcredential ID : 3132
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Secondary Literacy Interventionist Endorsement: Differentiated Instruction
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential fulfills a portion of the competencies from requirement area 3 of the Secondary Literacy Interventionist endorsement: 3.5 Create a positive, literacy-rich learning environment anchored in digital and print literacies with extended opportunities in speaking and listening.

Creating a Trauma-Responsive Classroom
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Microcredential ID : 2703
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Trauma-Informed Practices
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' trauma-responsive classrooms. Understanding how trauma impacts students is important. Even more important is seeing this information reflected in mindsets and practices which intentionally create safe environments, provide opportunities for students to feel competent, teach students emotional regulation skills, and create connections in the classroom.

Creating and Implementing Before, During, and After Reading Strategies
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Microcredential ID : 2982
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Secondary ELA Endorsement: Critically Selecting and Teaching Texts
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instructional application of reading strategies that involve individually and collaboratively interpreting texts. This is the third microcredential in the Critically Selecting and Teaching Texts stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Creating Effective Invitations for Student Writing
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Microcredential ID : 2988
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Secondary ELA Endorsement: Teaching Text Creation
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent creation of effective invitations for student writing. This is the third microcredential in the Teaching Text Creation stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy endorsement. It also fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy Intervention endorsement.

Crisis Response
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Microcredential ID : 2647
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Crisis Response Team
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a district, charter, and/or school team's ability to create and utilize an appropriate crisis response model for their setting. Earning this microcredential will require demonstration of an effective system of supports that is consistent in supporting faculty and students in times of a crisis.

Curriculum Creation, Review, and Adoption
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Microcredential ID : 3019
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Secondary Science Endorsement: Science Teaching Methods
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' participation in effective curriculum creation, revision and adoption of SEEd standards. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of the pathway for the Secondary Science Endorsement.

Dance Integration Implementation
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Microcredential ID : 3027
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Fine Arts Integration Implementation
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents knowledge, skills, and practices needed to effectively integrate dance and another subject area. This is an approach in which teachers guide students to construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form and meet evolving objectives in both subject areas.

Data Analysis and Problem Solving
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Microcredential ID : 2933
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Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Geometry, Measurement, and Data
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents a teacher’s ability to understand and respond to progressions related to data by planning and implementing instruction based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice and Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices. It involves selecting, using, and adapting mathematics curricula and teaching materials, including the integration of mathematical tools and technology, as well as using and analyzing formative and summative assessments to determine where students are in learning of data. This microcredential is the fifth of five in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Understand and Implement Concepts of Measurement Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Data Science Lesson Study #1
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Microcredential ID : 2730
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Data Science
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's planning for, implementation of, and reflection on a Data Science lesson that is aligned to grade-specific standards, anticipates student responses, and includes questions to further students' learning. This microcredential is the first in the Data Science stack. The microcredentials in this stack must be earned in sequence.

Data Science Lesson Study #2
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Microcredential ID : 2732
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Data Science
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's planning for, implementation of, and reflection on a Data Science lesson that is aligned to grade-specific standards, anticipates student responses, and includes questions to further students' learning. This microcredential is the second in the Data Science stack. The microcredentials in this stack must be earned in sequence.

Data Science Lesson Study Synthesis
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Microcredential ID : 2733
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Data Science
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to synthesize lessons learned from the Data Science Lesson Studies One and Two. This microcredential is the third and final in the Data Science stack. The microcredentials in this stack must be earned in sequence.

Data-Based Decision Making
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Microcredential ID : 2717
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MTSS - Behavior
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on the skills for effective teaming that allow a school to effectively identify, analyze, and solve problems at all three tiers of positive behavior interventions and supports implementation.

Data-informed Decision Making
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Microcredential ID : 3096
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 1
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0.5 USBE Credit

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It is impossible to personalize learning to meet students’ needs without first knowing what those needs are. Data-informed decision making means that teachers gather data before, during, and after instruction to better meet students where they are, selecting the right learning intentions, success criteria, and learning supports to meet the needs of a variety of learners.

Data-Informed Planning for Personalized Learning
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Microcredential ID : 2681
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Personalized Learning
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' strategic use of data to plan personalized learning lessons and units. Data should be gathered regularly and systematically from multiple sources, analyzed carefully, and used to tailor learning experiences that allow the learner to have voice and choice in time, path, pace, and place of learning.

Decimal and Percent Concepts
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Microcredential ID : 2953
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Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
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0.5 USBE Credit

Description

This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of decimal and percent concepts and their ability to understand and respond to developmentally appropriate learning trajectories/progressions related to decimal and percent concepts by planning and implementing instruction based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice and Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices. It includes selecting, using, and adapting mathematics curricula and teaching materials, including the integration of mathematical tools and technology, as well as using and analyzing formative and summative assessments to determine where students are in learning trajectories related to fraction concepts. This is the third of seven microcredentials in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Designing Authentic Questions
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Microcredential ID : 2813
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Project Based Learning
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on educators’ ability to design and implement effective project-based learning with their students through authentic challenges and/or questions. Project-based learning is a student-centered approach to learning through investigation and response to a complex question, challenge, or problem. Educators who earn this micocredential demonstrate their ability to create and implement projects based on authentic questions, challenges, and/or problems.

Digital Contribution
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Microcredential ID : 3103
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 4
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to a) create positive online experiences for students that foster responsible contribution and empathetic engagement, and b) guide students to develop a positive and responsible digital identity.

Digital Learning Tools
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Microcredential ID : 3091
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 1
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0.5 USBE Credit

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Effective implementation of educational technology requires demonstrated competency in a variety of digital learning tools. For this microcredential, you will demonstrate your competency with 3-5 core technologies approved by the state and/or your district or school.

Digital Safety
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Microcredential ID : 3102
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 4
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to a) empower students to recognize and appropriately respond to inappropriate or dangerous online interactions; and b) promote and model appropriate data privacy practices.

Digital Tools for Feedback
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Microcredential ID : 2656
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Feedback
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective use of digital tools to support feedback to, from, between, and among learners. Digital tools are invaluable in helping learners to generate, share, and process feedback. Because a complete feedback loop involves so many actors (teacher-to-student, student-to-student, student-to-teacher, student-to-self), digital tools can reduce complexity and speed delivery of the information that learners need to make their learning visible. Examples of these types of digital feedback tools include Nearpod, Seesaw, Padlet, Edpuzzle, Flipgrid, and digital whiteboards.

Disease Prevention Strategies
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Microcredential ID : 2971
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Health Endorsement: Human Diseases
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on disease prevention strategies. This is the third microcredential in the Human Diseases Stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Early Fraction Concepts
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Microcredential ID : 2963
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Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of early fraction concepts and the ability to respond to developmentally appropriate learning progressions related to early fraction concepts by planning and implementing instruction based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice and Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices. It includes selecting, using, and adapting mathematics curricula and teaching materials, including the integration of mathematical tools and technology, as well as using and analyzing formative and summative assessments to determine where students are in learning trajectories related to early fraction concepts. This is the first of seven microcredentials in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Rational Numbers and Proportional Reasoning. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Early Number Concepts
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Microcredential ID : 2935
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Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Numbers and Operations
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a teacher’s understanding of early number concepts, their ability to plan appropriate learning trajectories, implement effective teaching practices to help students understand and use these concepts, and use/analyze formative assessments to determine where students are in learning trajectories. (Early number concepts include, but are not limited to: non-quantified comparisons, containment, notions of quantity and measurement, one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, meaningful counting, and ordinality, composing, and decomposing whole numbers). This microcredential is the first of five in the Elementary Mathematics Endorsement: Numbers and Operations Stack. These microcredentials can be earned in any order.

Economic Benefits of Postsecondary Education
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Microcredential ID : 3077
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Building a College-Going Culture for All Students
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on a counselor's ability to help students understand the economic value of postsecondary education, access information regarding postsecondary options to aid in the decision-making process, and increase students' and parents' understanding of financial aid and the college application process.

Edge Finishing
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Microcredential ID : 3149
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FCS Endorsement: Sewing Construction Techniques
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents a Family and Consumer Sciences teacher’s ability to effectively and consistently teach edge finishing techniques. The microcredential meets part of the requirements for the Fashion and Textiles Endorsement.

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