Marzano Academies 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
Choose a Design Area of focus or become certified in all ten
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.
$250.00 USD
Design Area V Badge - Grouping and Regrouping
Grouping Students to Practice and Deepen Knowledge focuses on how teachers intentionally organize, regroup, and support students so collaborative learning accelerates progress on proficiency scales. In this micro-credentialing experience, you will explore how to form purposeful groups, adjust grouping based on evidence of learning, and help students understand how their group work supports their movement through levels of proficiency. You will design and implement grouping strategies aligned to specific learning goals, monitor student interactions and explanations, and collect evidence of impact on student behaviors and dispositions. By the end of the experience, you will earn a badge recognizing your expertise in using flexible grouping as a deliberate instructional tool to deepen learning and promote student ownership.
$250.00 USD
Design Area VI Badge - Engagement
Engagement focuses on how teachers intentionally design learning experiences that capture and sustain student attention in service of learning. In this micro-credentialing experience, you will explore research-based engagement strategies such as pacing, structured movement, response routines, academic games, novelty, and choice and learn how to align them to clear learning goals and proficiency scales. You will plan and implement engagement strategies in your classroom, collect evidence of impact, and reflect on changes in student behaviors and dispositions. By the end of the experience, you will earn a badge recognizing your expertise in creating learning environments where engagement is purposeful, visible, and directly connected to student progress.
$250.00 USD
Design Area VII Badge- Comfort, Safety, and Order
Establishing and Maintaining Safety, Order, and Comfort focuses on the teacher's actions that create a classroom environment where students feel physically safe, emotionally secure, and ready to learn. In this micro-credentialing experience, you will explore how clear expectations, consistent routines, monitoring, and timely acknowledgment of appropriate behaviors contribute to an orderly and supportive learning environment. You will design and implement strategies that prevent disruptions, respond effectively to misbehavior, and reinforce productive behaviors through specific, instructional acknowledgment. By collecting evidence and reflecting on changes in student behaviors and dispositions, you will earn a badge recognizing your expertise in creating classrooms where safety, order, and comfort are intentionally designed and sustained in service of learning.
$250.00 USD
Design Area VIII Badge - Belonging and Esteem
Establishing and Maintaining Belonging and Esteem focuses on the teacher actions that intentionally cultivate a classroom environment where every student feels valued, respected, and capable of success. In this badging experience, you will explore how to build positive relationships through awareness of student interests, backgrounds, and experiences; how to communicate high expectations paired with appropriate support so students experience both challenge and care; and how to acknowledge effort, growth, and success in ways that reinforce students’ sense of competence and belonging. You will implement strategies that promote equitable participation, affirm student identity, and respond productively to errors and setbacks. By gathering evidence of impact on student behaviors and dispositions you will earn a badge recognizing your expertise in intentionally designing classrooms where belonging and esteem support learning for all students.
$250.00 USD
Design Area IX Badge - Efficacy and Agency
Efficacy and Agency focuses on the teacher actions that cultivate students’ belief in their ability to learn and their willingness to actively engage, particularly when learning feels challenging or unfamiliar. In this micro-credentialing experience, you will explore how to inspire learners through intentional instructional moves, how to enhance student agency by inviting voice, effort, and persistence, and how to use in-depth questioning and probing of incorrect answers to reengage reluctant learners without lowering cognitive demand. You will implement these strategies in your classroom, gather evidence of their impact on student behaviors and dispositions (including increased participation, risk-taking, and perseverance), and earn a badge recognizing your expertise in strengthening efficacy and agency within a competency-based learning environment.
$250.00 USD
Design Area X Badge - Metacognitive and Life Skills
Metacognitive Skills and Life Skills focuses on the teacher's actions that help students think about their learning, manage themselves, and build transferable skills that extend beyond a single lesson or course. In this micro-credentialing experience, you will explore how to help students reflect on their learning through structured routines and prompts , how to embed metacognitive skills and life skills into student-directed long-term projects , and how to explicitly teach and reinforce specific metacognitive and life skills using clear proficiency scales and targeted learning activities . You will implement these strategies, gather evidence of impact on student behaviors and dispositions (including what students can describe about their own strategies and skill development) , and earn a badge recognizing your expertise in strengthening students’ self-regulation, reflection, and real-world readiness.
