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 over 30 books, including Fostering Resilient Learners, Culturize and many more! 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.

“I love the flexibility of being able to work at my own pace and select classes that apply to where I am in practice. I feel like the teacher/practice focus of each class improved my skills immediately.”

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

*Available for MISIC members only

MISIC Workshops/Conferences for Credit

Courses for 2024-2025

• Together We Achieve More – Improving Instruction, Impacting Students
  
  • Course Description
  • Credit Registration Form

Previous Years’ Courses

• Focus on What Matters for Student Success: Critical Issues in Education (2023-2024)
• Using ISASP Data to Improve Student Learning (2023-2024)
• Focus on What Matters: Learning Through Writing(2023-2024)
• Focus on What Matters for Student Success: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment – Summer 2023 (Summer 2023)
• Focus on What Matters for Student Success: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (2023-2023)
• Focus on ISASP Data to Improve Student Learning (Fall 2022)
• Reset & Reinvent: Rising to Challenges MISIC LRC 21-22 (2021-2022)
• 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)