Badge-based competency coaching in which teachers design customized mastery paths and earn badges for demonstrated evidence of practice¶

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Description¶

This strategy has teachers work with a Data-Informed Growth Coach to design "a customized path toward mastery of core instructional Best Practices and district-selected standards". Teachers "earned badges as they demonstrated evidence of practice", making educator learning competency-based rather than seat-time-based. The approach is job-embedded and customized to each partner district's needs and priorities, with all interactions documented on a coaching platform.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Coaches who work with teachers to design customized mastery paths
• A system for documenting evidence of practice against district-selected standards

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• K-12 teachers
• instructional lead teachers
• instructional coaches
• school administrators

Target Learning Goals¶

• mastery of core instructional best practices
• district-selected standards alignment

Related Strategies¶

• Micro Credentials And Badging
• Badges

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• engage2learn (e2L): Evidence Rating. (2022). https://www.evidenceforlearning.org