OpenSciEd Facilitator
Micro-credentials

These micro-credentials are designed for people who want to facilitate OpenSciEd Professional Learning. They are not a course to prepare facilitators, but are designed to be earned after someone has already experienced OpenSciEd’s Curriculum Launch Professional Learning for Facilitators. They are an opportunity to deepen understanding of and prepare for facilitating OpenSciEd’s suite of publicly available professional learning materials. They are also a requirement for facilitators at any organization that wants to be an OpenSciEd Certified Professional Learning Provider.

A micro-credential is earned by demonstrating competence in a specific skill via a portfolio of evidence created through classroom practice. All micro-credentials are based on a robust, standardized blueprint, grounded in four areas of instructional efficacy research including, cycles of inquiry, job-embedded supports, rigorously calibrated assessment, and portfolio-based learning.

Included with your OpenSciEd micro-credential access are the following supports:

Micro-credential Overview

• Included with your micro-credentials is the opportunity to attend a BloomBoard support session to overview the BloomBoard platform and the first OpenSciEd micro-credential. Opportunities to attend upcoming 60-minute virtual meetings, including dates/times and registration links for upcoming sessions, will be shared when your BloomBoard account is created.

Coach

• You will be placed, along with peers, in a discussion group within the platform where you will have access to a BloomBoard coach and the option to schedule 1:1 coaching sessions (even if choosing to pursue your micro-credential independently/outside of Success Academy). 

BloomBoard Technical Support Team

• Email support@bloomboard.com or visit support.bloomboard.com.

First and foremost, the work required to earn these microcredentials should deepen your understanding of OpenSciEd’s professional learning and better prepare you to facilitate the Curriculum Launch. 

You’ll also get recognition for your work in two ways. The first is you’ll receive each of the three actual micro-credentials from Bloomboard. These are yours forever and you can use them to advertise your accomplishment on social media, in email signatures, on resumes, etc. The second recognition is a digital badge that will come directly from OpenSciEd. Once you have earned your first micro-credential in this series, you’ll also receive an “OpenSciEd-Certified Facilitator” digital badge. This is yours for one year, but will expire unless you earn the 2nd micro-credential within that year. Earning the second micro-credential, Supporting Coherence in OpenSciEd PL, will renew this digital badge for another year. If you earn the third microcredential within that second year (or sooner), you’ll be awarded the “OpenSciEd Expert Facilitator” digital badge. The expert badge is yours to keep without expiration.

This recognition can support you to secure professional learning opportunities as an independent consultant, or potentially in working for one of OpenSciEd’s Certified Professional Learning Providers. They will definitely be valued for those who apply to join the OpenSciEd Facilitator Team, who deliver professional learning directly for OpenSciEd.

These three Bloomboard micro-credentials are yours forever and you can use them to advertise your accomplishment on social media, in email signatures, on resumes, etc. 

Earning these micro-credentials also makes you eligible for recognition via a digital badge that will come directly from OpenSciEd. Once you have earned your first micro-credential in this series, you’ll also receive an “OpenSciEd-Certified Facilitator” digital badge. This is yours for one year, but will expire unless you earn the 2nd micro-credential within that year. Earning the second micro-credential, Supporting Coherence in OpenSciEd PL, will renew this digital badge for another year. If you earn the third microcredential within that second year (or sooner), you’ll be awarded the “OpenSciEd Expert Facilitator” digital badge. The expert badge is yours to keep without expiration.

These micro-credentials are designed for people who want to facilitate OpenSciEd Professional Learning. They are not a course to prepare facilitators, but are designed to be earned after someone has already experienced OpenSciEd’s Curriculum Launch Professional Learning for Facilitators. They are an opportunity to deepen understanding of and prepare for facilitating OpenSciEd’s suite of publicly available professional learning materials. They are also a requirement for facilitators at any organization that wants to be an OpenSciEd Certified Professional Learning Provider.

These micro-credentials are designed for facilitators of professional learning and you will need to facilitate at least one professional learning event in order to earn all three, but you do not need access to students. The first two micro-credentials will support you to reflect on and document what you learned in the Curriculum Launch for Facilitators professional learning as you plan to facilitate OpenSciEd professional learning. To earn the third micro-credential, however, you will need to facilitate and video record a whole-group discussion during an OpenSciEd professional learning event that includes adult participants wearing their “student hats” as a part of your submission.

BloomBoard and OpenSciEd hosted an information session on July 15, 2022. You can access the recording here:
Recording: OpenSciEd Facilitator Micro-credentials Info Session 7.15.22
And the slide deck here:
Slide deck: OpenSciEd Facilitator Micro-credentials