Professional Learning

MISIC has partnered with SkillsForce to bring districts an exciting new platform that houses personalized, job-embedded learning to meet teachers needs in our rapidly changing education systems. SkillsForce can be used to track professional development experiences and to access and monitor progress on a vast number of micro-credentials. Teachers can create personalized professional learning profiles on the SkillsForce platform, documenting their professional learning experiences and successes. All 72 of MISIC’s micro-credentials on many topics will be available through this platform, as well as many more micro-credentials currently being developed by a host of educational experts from across the country. This robust platform is available to MISIC members at NO COST, and the platform is available to non-member districts on a subscription basis throughout the country. 

This 10-minute video provides a demonstration of the SkillsForce platform. Check it out now for a first-hand view of this exciting new professional development tool!

Email Jamie (jamie@misiciowa.org) with any questions.

• Book Studies
  • MISIC has developed model book studies for Fostering Resilient Learners, Culturize and other books. Please contact us for more information.

Use MISIC’s BOEE approved stream-lined template to create licensure renewal credit learning opportunities for your faculty:

• Book Studies
  • MISIC has developed model book studies for Fostering Resilient Learners, Culturize and other books. Please contact us for more information.
    
• Remote Learning
• Social and Emotional Learning
• PLC Implementation
• Standards Based Grading
• Visible Learning Series
• Iowa’s Instructional Framework
• MTSS: Small Group Instruction

MISIC support, course template, and course samples are readily available.

Use MISIC’s micro-credentials to meet a variety of learning needs:

• Individualized PD Plan
• Team or PLC Study
• Teacher Leaders
• Instructional Coaches
• Personal Professional Growth
• Assistance Plans

Choose from over 70 micro-credentials and watch for additional MC’s as they are developed. Contact us with specific topics to meet your needs. Micro-credentials can be bundled together for licensure renewal credit.

Testimonials

“We had a group of teachers that needed to understand and be able to use the new Social Studies standards in order to create units of study. The micro credentials were perfect for collaborating to unpack grade level standards, use those standards to create units, and find resources that supported those units.”

~Sammie Bruce, Instructional Coach

“Learning through using the Micro-Credential Visible Learning in Science was very valuable not only for the choice of content I was able to acquire, but also the implementation of the learning along the way. The modules were very structured and kept me accountable for the learning as well as the reflection questions asked me to implement what I had learned. The fact that it was part of my ICDP and was also offered for LRC were side bonuses as I had evidence to show my principal of my learning toward my ICDP goals as well as I could earn credit for what I was already doing.”

~Abbie Julin, 4th Grade Teacher/Instructional Coach 

Micro-Credential Bundles (Courses) Available for License Renewal Credit
Individual micro-credentials have been bundled into fifteen-hour courses that are eligible for licensure renewal credit granted by MISIC, an approved licensure renewal provider with the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners. MISIC currently has 21 courses of bundled micro-credentials available for licensure renewal credit.

• Complete them on your own time at your own pace, individually or with a team
• Practice, apply, and implement skills within your professional practice
• Provide proof of your knowledge and skill through submission of evidence

Click Here to Register for License Renewal Credit.

Contact Jamie if you have any questions. The cost is $80/credit.

Micro-Credential Bundles Currently Available for Credit

• Argumentative Writing– 4 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Assessment Tools and Practices – 3 micro-credentials – ***NEW June 2021
• ELA/Literacy Shifts – 5 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Engaging Curriculum in a Caring Environment – 4 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Informative/Explanatory Writing – 4 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Learning What NGSS Means – 4 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Learning with Text – 3 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• MISIC Literacy Resources* – 5 micro-credentials – Updated April 2020
• MISIC Math Resources* – 5 micro-credentials – Updated April 2020
• Narrative Writing– 4 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) – 4 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Professional Learning Design – 3 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Professional Learning Strategies – 3 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Remote Learning – 3 micro-credentials – ***Updated September 2020
• Social & Emotional Learning – 3 micro-credentials – ***Updated July  2020
• The Social Studies Inquiry Process– 4 micro-credentials – Updated April 2020
• Special Education – 4 micro-credentials – ***Updated January 2022
• Standards, Resources, and Lesson Design* – 4 micro-credentials – Updated April 2020
• Teaching with Text – 3 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020
• Understanding & Supporting Learners Who Face Challenges – 2 micro-credentials – ***NEW October 2021
• Vocabulary Instruction – 4 micro-credentials – Updated January 2020

*Available for MISIC members only

MISIC Workshops/Conferences for Credit

Courses for 2022-2023

• Focus on What Matters for Student Success: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
  • Evaluation Rubric
  • Registration Form
• Focus on ISASP Data to Improve Student Learning
  • Registration Form

Previous Years Courses

• Reset & Reinvent: Rising to Challenges MISIC LRC 21-22
• Social Studies Strategies (Sept 16-17, 2019)
• Social and Emotional Learning (Sept 23, 2019)
• Current Issues in Education 2019-20 (Sept 23 & Oct 1, 2019)
• Shifting Classroom Practice for the ISASP and Beyond (Oct 1, 2019)
• Professional Learning by Design 2019-20 (Regional Meetings – Recorded Zoom Meetings)