Newsela / Formative certifications provide a pathway for professional growth. They also deepen your understanding of how Newsela products - which include Formative - work. Start your journey to practice literacy skills, build background knowledge and include diverse perspectives in your lessons. Build on your foundational Newsela and Formative knowledge to develop new skills and increase your classroom, school, and district engagement!

Formative Certified Educator course is a self-paced training program that will teach you best practices for leveraging formative as a daily instruction and assessment tool. You will walk away with a completion badge, a certificate for 5 hours of professional development, and a multi-modal, standards-aligned task for immediate use in your classroom! The course is consistently updated to incorporate training on our newest product features. Educators who do not currently have access to a paid Formative subscription and who complete the FCE online course will be recognized with a complimentary access to Formative Silver for 90 days.

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From there, when you click Begin or Sign In, you’ll be prompted to sign in using the credentials you use to sign into Newsela.

Teachers can find the course in the Training Center here: https://training.newsela.com/formative-certified-educator-program-full-course

The FCE course is self-paced. You can start and stop and the Skilljar platform will save your place. We anticipate the course lessons and performance task will take 3-5 hours to complete.

Your FCE status is valid for 2 years. After 2 years, you will be invited to recertify to extend your credentials with an abbreviated course to bring you up to speed on what’s changed since your last completion.

Educators who do not already have a Formative Silver subscription or Gold access as part of a school or district subscription will receive 90 days of free Formative Silver upon completion of the course.

Participants do not need to be Newsela or Formative paying customers to take advantage of the content in the FCE course. Simply sign up for free Formative access to get started!

After submitting your final performance task, you will immediately receive a notification about your status. Pending successful completion, you will receive an email with an official certificate, FCE badge, and link to claim your free trial.

You can check your course progress by viewing your courses in training.newsela.com. That will allow you to see your course history and jump back into where you left off.

Newsela Certified Educator course is a self-paced training program designed to support educators leveraging Newsela to elevate their instruction. Take this certification course to deepen your understanding of how Newsela works and how to use the instructional content platform to practice literacy skills, build background knowledge, and include diverse perspectives in your classroom. The course is consistently updated to incorporate training on our newest product features. You will walk away with a completion badge, a certificate for 5 hours of professional development, and access to our community of educators. Educators who do not currently have access to a paid Newsela subscription who independently** complete the NCE online course will be recognized with a complimentary access to our premium Newsela products for 180 days.

Click Here to start your online NCE course!

**This full access offer does not apply to site-wide or group completions of the NCE online course at this time. For schools and districts looking to organize a site-wide certification or provide site-wide access to premium Newsela products, please get in touch with a member of the Newsela team. Read full terms and conditions here.

When logging in, you’ll be prompted to sign in with Newsela. You’ll get to a screen that looks like this:

From there, when you click Begin or Sign In, you’ll be prompted to sign in using the credentials you use to sign into Newsela.

Teachers can find the course in the Training Center here: https://newsela.com/about/training/certifications/

The NCE course is self-paced. You can start and stop and the Skilljar platform will save your place. We anticipate the course lessons and performance task will take 3-5 hours to complete.

Your NCE status is valid for 2 years. After 2 years, you will be invited to recertify to extend your credentials with an abbreviated course to bring you up to speed on what’s changed since your last completion.

Educators without an active subscription that complete the course for the first time or recertification can claim a 180 day extended access trial to Newsela's premium products.

Participants do not need to be Newsela or Formative paying customers to take advantage of the content in the FCE course. Simply sign up for free Formative access to get started!

After submitting your final performance task, you will immediately receive a notification about your status. Pending successful completion, you will receive an email with an official certificate, NCE badge, and link to claim your free trial.

Yes, if you completed NCE within the last 2 years we can transfer your NCE status to your new school email domain. Please provide your old email address and your current email address.

You can check your course progress by viewing your courses in training.newsela.com. That will allow you to see your course history and jump back into where you left off.

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