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Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States

June 21, 2019

In the United States, micro-credentials could serve as a powerful tool to improve the professional development industry serving teachers and administrators. Education reformers and policy leaders are beginning to recognize that if schools are to create competency-based and personalized learning experiences for every student and ensure students know how to collaborate and communicate, then those who are teaching them need to lead their own learning as well.

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International Council for School Leadership

"A school is as good as its principal". Our belief in this statement motivated us to form ICSL as a not-for-profit company with a focused agenda of empowering school leaders of the future to create schools of the future.Delivering student achievement is the core purpose of every successful school. Several societal and evolutionary factors have completely changed the perspectives that defined 'student achievement'. These changes have magnified the existing pressures on principals to deliver quality education. ICSL aims at providing existing and aspiring principals with the right knowledge, skills, and support to tackle these challenges.

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Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States