New Playbook: Incremental Credentialing in Graduate Education

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CREDENTIAL AS YOU GO PARTICIPANT

Red Rocks Community College

WEBSITE

https://www.rrcc.edu/

TYPE

Public community college

LOCATION

Lakewood, CO

COHORT

2022

Implementation stage & efforts to date

Early Implementation stage

  • Early Childhood apprenticeship pathway efforts for learners
  • Prior learning assessment developments
  • Integration efforts between noncredit and credit units
  • Participating in efforts to embed apprenticeship into traditional stackable certificate and degree programs (incremental credentialing).
  • Policy-setting at the state and/or institutional level

Goals for participation

  • Collaboratively work with Credential As You Go, and other members of the cohort, to collectively advance the efforts to transition from a degree-centric orientation toward an equitable and innovative approach to incremental credentialing.
  • Further develop industry partnerships to develop relevant workforce related learning credentials and mentoring opportunities.
  • Develop appropriate pathways for prior learning and competency-based credit transfer for early childhood education and potentially other career-technical education programs working with apprenticeships.

Associated Case Studies

Infant/Toddler Childhood Certificate

The Infant/Toddler Childhood Certificate, part of the degreed apprenticeship program in Early Childhood Education, has been developed as a means to offer college credit for ECE certificates leading to the AAS degree in ECE based upon demonstrated competency in the workplace for the apprentices so they can earn college credit attached to their apprenticeship learning experiences through the competency-based education (CBE).
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Early Childhood Education Certificate

This 12-credit certificate is part of the stacking certificates offered and include the first 4 ECE courses students typically take. A minimum of 25% of a certificate must be taken as residency coursework with the college per requirements set forth in the PLA handbook with the Colorado Community College system.
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Early Childhood Director Certificate

The Early Childhood Director Certificate, part of the degreed apprenticeship program in Early Childhood Education, has been developed as a means to offer college credit for ECE certificates leading to the AAS degree in ECE based upon demonstrated competency in the workplace for the apprentices so they can earn college credit attached to their apprenticeship learning experiences through the competency-based education (CBE).
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FUNDING STATEMENT

Credential As You Go has acquired three phases of funding to date. Lumina Foundation funded Phase I, resulting in the Incremental Credential Framework for testing. The Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education funds Phase II (Grant R305T210063), which focuses on rapid prototyping of and research on incremental credentials with a national campaign. An anonymous private donor fund at the Program on Skills, Credentials & Workforce Policy at George Washington University funds the development of the prototype Learn and Work Ecosystem Library. Walmart funds Phase III, which focuses on systems change for expansion and sustainability of incremental credentials. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of Lumina Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education, Walmart, or George Washington University.