Marzano AcademiesÂ
Badging Experience
Take Charge of Your Professional Mastery
Choose your track and chart your own learning journey through the Marzano Academies Instructional Model. Build expertise in the instructional design area that matters most to you, apply it in practice, and earn credentials and recognition that prove your impact while honoring your experience.Â
Available Badging Experiences
Design Area I Badge - Proficiency Scales
Take the first step toward mastering the Marzano Academies Instructional Model. In this micro-credentialing experience, you’ll learn how to design and communicate proficiency scales that clarify what students are expected to learn and help them see where they are in their own progression. Explore strategies for setting clear goals, monitoring progress, and celebrating growth—all grounded in research and classroom practice. By the end, you’ll be able to create and use learning goals that drive student motivation, agency, and achievement—and earn recognition for your expertise.
$250.00 USD
Design Area II Badge - Assessment and Feedback
Deepen your expertise in using assessment as a tool for learning, not just measurement. In this micro-credentialing experience, you’ll explore how to design assessments that align with proficiency scales, gather meaningful evidence of student learning, and provide feedback that guides next steps. You’ll learn strategies for determining students’ current status, tracking progress, and helping them use evidence to reflect and adjust their learning. Grounded in research and classroom application, this experience will help you create a feedback-rich environment where assessment drives motivation, clarity, and growth. You will earn recognition for your expertise along the way.
$250.00 USD
Design Area III Badge - Proficiency Scale Instruction
Build mastery in one of the most essential areas of effective teaching: how new knowledge is introduced. In this micro-credentialing experience, you’ll learn how to present, process, and solidify new content so students can meaningfully connect it to what they already know. Explore strategies such as chunking, guided processing, and representing knowledge to strengthen retention and understanding. Grounded in research and classroom practice, this experience helps you design lessons that make learning stick. It will help you transform how students engage with new ideas and progress through proficiency scales. Earn recognition for your expertise in making new learning clear, connected, and lasting.
$250.00 USD
Design Area IV Badge - General Instruction
Create a classroom where students choose to learn. In this badging experience, you’ll learn how to design moments that spark and sustain attention using strategies like purposeful movement, academic games, novelty and choice, increased response rates, and upbeat pacing. You’ll connect each instructional move to clear learning goals and proficiency scales so students know what they’re aiming for, why it matters, and how to take the next step. Through classroom-tested routines, video exemplars, and practical templates, you’ll plan, implement, and refine engagement strategies that boost participation, thinking, and perseverance. Finish with a ready-to-use toolkit for your context, evidence of impact on student behaviors and dispositions, and a badge recognizing your expertise in building a feedback-rich, high-energy learning environment that drives progress.
