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High Quality Instructional Cycle Part 2
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Microcredential ID : 3089
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APPEL: Instruction, Technology, Assessment, and Planning
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential is part two in a stack that will allow APPEL candidates to demonstrate competency with the elements outlined in Utah's High Quality Instructional Cycle. Completion of this microcredential will require demonstrating competency with Step 4 (Assessment), Step 5 (Data and Reflection), and Step 6 (Adapt Instruction) of the High Quality Instructional Cycle.

Higher Order Thinking and Authentic Learning Experiences
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Microcredential ID : 3110
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APPEL: Instruction, Technology, Assessment, and Planning
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0.5 USBE Credit

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In this microcredential, teachers will have opportunities to demonstrate how they provide authentic learning experiences and help students develop higher order thinking and metacognitive skills. This microcredential will allow teachers to demonstrate the following competencies from Board Rule: Systematically designing instruction toward a specific learning goal by first designing developmentally appropriate and authentic learning experiences and second developing higher order thinking and metacognitive skills.

History, Culture, and Environment
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Microcredential ID : 3000
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Secondary ELA Endorsement: Language and Linguistics
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents the teacher’s planning and implementation of instruction addressing the historical, cultural, and environmental elements of language using print and non-print texts and instructional strategies that are motivating and accessible to all students. This is the first microcredential in the Language and Linguistics stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Identifying and Teaching Vocabulary
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Microcredential ID : 2983
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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 vocabulary instruction. This is the fourth 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.

Identifying Essential Standards
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Microcredential ID : 2683
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PLCs: Essential Standards
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' work as a member of a PLC to identify essential standards. Identifying essential standards of a subject is the foundation for the first question of DuFour's PLC essential questions, which is "What do we expect our students to learn?" Developing common outcomes for a class is a process vital to a PLC. If we want all students to learn, we have to decide what they should learn. The PLC process depends on a deep understanding of what students will know and be able to do as a result of our teaching. By prioritizing certain standards over others, teachers gain clarity about what they will teach and can be more efficient in their planning and more in-depth in their instruction. Once teachers have determined their essential standards, they can create learning targets and then translate those targets.

IEP
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Microcredential ID : 3059
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Disability Law for School Social Workers
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential will allow School Social Workers to demonstrate competency with their understanding and implementation of the IDEA Individualized Education Program (IEP) requirements and how they support and advocate for students with disabilities.

Implementing Blended and Online Learning Modalities
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Microcredential ID : 3093
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 1
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0.5 USBE Credit

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The K-12 educational environment is no longer restricted to a traditional teacher-centered physical classroom, but shifts between online and in-person modalites or a combination of both--often referred to as blended or hybrid learning. Therefore, educators need to design lessons that leverage the strengths of both in-person instruction and online learning activities.

Implementing MTSS in Secondary Literacy - Part I
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Microcredential ID : 3064
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Secondary Literacy Interventionist Endorsement: Differentiated Instruction
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents literacy interventionists' use of MTSS to support literacy instruction in the secondary grades.

This is the second microcredential in the Differentiated Instruction stack. This stack fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy Interventionist endorsement.

Implementing MTSS in Secondary Literacy – Part II
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Microcredential ID : 3065
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Secondary Literacy Interventionist Endorsement: Differentiated Instruction
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents literacy interventionists' use of MTSS to support literacy instruction in the secondary grades. This is the second microcredential in the Differentiated Instruction stack. This stack fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy Interventionist endorsement.

Infectious Diseases
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Microcredential ID : 2970
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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 infectious disease. This is the second 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.

Instructional Design Principles & Frameworks
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Microcredential ID : 3092
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Ed Tech Endorsement: Competency 1
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0.5 USBE Credit

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An Instructional Technology framework provides an actionable path for implementing technology in instruction and assessing the impact of innovative teaching and learning. For this microcredential, educators will apply a research-based instructional technology framework to evaluate the effectiveness of technology-infused lessons and redesign a lesson or unit plan to improve student engagement and learning.

Instructional Models
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Microcredential ID : 3017
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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' implementation of effective instructional models to support student sensemaking. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of the pathway for the Secondary Science Endorsement.

Instructional Planning for Physical Education
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Microcredential ID : 2915
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Physical Education Endorsement: Introduction and Philosophy of P.E.
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent planning for physical education instruction. Planning is a critical part of teaching physical education that ensures the implementation of a quality lesson. Pre Instructional decisions, starting with a personal philosophy and then determining how the lesson will be presented are key. Planning will also involve designing and implementing unit/lesson plans that are both flexible and meaningful.

This microcredential fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for endorsement. Click the More Info button to learn more.

Instructional Planning with Assessment Data
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Microcredential ID : 3073
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Instructional Coaching Endorsement: Instructional Design and Assessment
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential emphasizes an instructional coach's ability to guide teachers through the work of instructional planning based on the collection and analysis of student data.

Instructional Practices' Impact on Adolescent Literacy Development
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Microcredential ID : 2998
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Secondary ELA Endorsement: Adolescent Literacy
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instructional practices supporting adolescent literacy.

This is the second microcredential in the Adolescent Literacy 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 Interventionist endorsement.

Integrating High-Interest Texts
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Microcredential ID : 3071
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Secondary Literacy Interventionist Endorsement: Motivation and Engagement
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents literacy interventionists' practice integrating high-interest texts to support adolescent literacy development.

This is the second microcredential in the Motivation and Engagement stack. This stack fulfills one of the requirements for the Secondary Literacy Interventionist endorsement.

Integration with Math, ELA, and other STEM Disciplines
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Microcredential ID : 3021
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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' integration of other content areas, including mathematics, ELA and engineering into secondary science instruction to support all learners. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of the pathway for the Secondary Science Endorsement.

Introduction to AI: Understanding the Basics of AI's Role in Education
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Microcredential ID : 3168
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AI For Education
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential emphasizes the proficient use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) to improve workflow. It involves showcasing competence in understanding crucial AI terminology, gaining a foundational understanding of how AI operates, staying informed about current policies at the Federal, state, and local levels, developing a method for selecting the right tool for a given task, and applying fundamental prompt engineering practices.

Introduction to Special Education for APPEL
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Microcredential ID : 3115
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APPEL: Introduction to Special Education
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0.5 USBE Credit

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The purpose of this microcredential is to demonstrate knowledge and skills to assist in the identification of and instruction for students with disabilities in the general classroom. Candidates will demonstrate competency in the following, found in Board Rule R277-304: Knowledge and skills in implementing least restrictive behavior interventions; skills in implementing and assessing the results of interventions; skills in the implementation of an educational program with accommodations, modifications, services, and supports established by an IEP or a 504 plan for students with disabilities in the general education classroom.

To meet the following competencies, educator may complete the Special Education Law course in MIDAS (MIDAS #59403): Knowledge of the IDEA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and Knowledge of the role of non-special-education teachers in the education of students with disabilities.

Kitchen Equipment and Management
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Microcredential ID : 3121
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FCS Endorsement: Lab Techniques for Foods & Nutrition and Culinary Arts
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents educators' effective and consistent instruction on kitchen equipment and management. It is one of three microcredentials in the Lab Techniques Stack. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of a pathway for Family and Consumer Sciences endorsement.

Knowledge Building
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Microcredential ID : 2640
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Cooperative Learning
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This Knowledge Building microcredential represents the effective use of knowledge-building structures or strategies that support student interaction in highly structured ways to acquire facts and information.

Knowledge of Students and the Learning Environment
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Microcredential ID : 3018
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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' consistent and effective development of safe learning environments to support student sensemaking. This stack of microcredentials fulfills one of the requirements of the pathway for the Secondary Science Endorsement.

Leading and Enabling Change
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Microcredential ID : 2645
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Courageous Principals
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential focuses on leaders’ skillful use of the Courageous Principals techniques for leading and enabling change. This microcredential stack is for administrators who have attended Deloitte’s Courageous Principals training.

Leading Beyond Your Classroom
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Microcredential ID : 2695
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Teacher Leadership
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents teachers' leadership beyond the physical or virtual classroom. Teachers who lead beyond their classrooms are motivated by a desire to model practice and share their expertise with veteran and novice teachers within their district. Teachers who choose to lead other educators in addition to their classroom assignments have a collective sense of accountability for the learning of all students. They are committed to improving the practice of others knowing that this will strengthen outcomes school, district, state, or nation-wide. This microcredential is for current classroom teachers.

Leading Through Professional Learning
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Microcredential ID : 2696
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Teacher Leadership
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents the leadership of educators who are not serving in a classroom assignment. Educators in positions of coaching and leadership outside of classrooms are motivated by a desire to model practice and share their expertise with teachers in professional learning settings. Educators who choose to lead teachers currently in the classroom have a collective sense of accountability for the learning of all teachers and students. They are committed to improving the practice of others knowing that this will enhance outcomes district-wide while strengthening the culture of public education throughout Utah.

Leading Through Social Media
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Microcredential ID : 2697
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Teacher Leadership
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents teachers' leadership through social media. Teacher leaders engage in critical conversations about instruction, learning, policy, and other education issues via social media platforms. Rather than simply posting complaints, teacher leaders pose creative questions, innovative solutions, and positive reflections about educational issues. Teacher leaders motivate educators, policy makers, and community members to join important education-focused conversations. They are mindful of their word choice and use a professional tone when posting their opinions and ideas.

Lean Think Combating Waste
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Microcredential ID : 3117
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Lean Think
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential builds skills within a professional to remove waste from their workspace and practice. Lean Think teaches how to define, identify, and focus on value while simultaneously removing waste. There are nine wastes in education: • Movement • Time • Overproduction • Knowledge • Talent • Capacity • Process and Handling • Assets • Defects Understanding of the nine wastes assists teachers in locating waste in the classroom while empowering and equipping them to remove superfluous practices. The result is improved student learning and less teacher time outside of contract hours.

Lean Think Foundations
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Microcredential ID : 3033
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Lean Think
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential represents the fundamental skills upon which to build a mindset and culture of incremental, process improvement in the classroom. Lean Think teaches professionals how to define, identify, and focus on value while simultaneously removing waste. Valuable practices are refined, and superfluous practices are removed. The result is improved student learning and less teacher time outside of contract hours.

Lean Think Organization 6S
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Microcredential ID : 3090
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Lean Think
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0.5 USBE Credit

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A clean and well-organized classroom enhances classroom management, boosts student performance, and promotes a culture of efficiency and value, by decluttering physical and electronic spaces and fostering a focused learning environment. This microcredential represents the organizational skills necessary to accomplish these tasks. Fundamentally, 6S builds a mindset and culture of incremental, process improvement in the classroom. It describes the organization mechanism and tools in Lean Think. It simply stands for 6 words that begin with the letter S and are meant to be followed sequentially: Sort, Straighten, Scrub, Systemize, Standardize, Safety.

Lean Think Tools
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Microcredential ID : 3118
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Lean Think
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0.5 USBE Credit

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This microcredential builds skills within a professional to take already valuable classroom practices and make them more effective and more efficient using Lean Think Tools. The tools were developed in industry and refined over 70 years. They smoothly apply to educational practices resulting in improved student learning and less teacher time outside of contract hours. Lean Think Tools that may be used in this microcredential are: • 5 Whys • Error Proofing • Flow • Gemba • Jidoka • Just in Time • Load Leveling • Minimum viable Product • Plan Do Check Adjust • Pull vs Push • Standardization • Voice of the Customer

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