Skyline Essentials Badges Self-paced professional learning essential for those who are implementing and/or supporting the implementation of Skyline. Courses include how to navigate Skyline, plan and teach lessons and administer assessments using the Skyline digital learning ecosystem.The Navigating, Planning, Teaching, and Assessing 1&2 badges are required for new Skyline adopting teachers. Access Skyline Essential Badges HERE!
Payment / Credit Hours Teachers will receive CPDUs for each Skyline Essentials badge completed. As of April 1, 2025, no compensation will be provided for completion of Skyline Essentials badges. Teachers will receive CPDUs for attending PL sessions. Eligibile staff will also be compensated at the non-instructional rate per hour for their attendance at Skyline PL sessions that occur outside of regularly contracted hours. Teachers must be fully contracted and onboarded at the time of the session, attend the full duration of the session, and complete the attendance/exit slip form to receive payment and CPDUs. Please find more payment information in the Skyline Payment One-Pager.
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What you’ll be learning Look forward to getting hands-on with this curriculum and collaborating with your colleagues who are also teaching Skyline! You’ll work as a team to explore core components of the curriculum, experience the key instructional shifts as both a teacher and a learner and get guided practice with the digital learning ecosystem. You will dig deep into accommodations for your students with disabilities and leave with actions you can take to improve their learning.
Before your session Register for Learning Hub ahead of time using the following codes:
Course Code: 71927
Class Code: 131794
Virtual Engagement Policy
In order to be eligible to receive compensation and ISBE hours for virtual sessions, educators must participate actively for the entirety of the session, meet the engagement expectations below, and complete the exit slip.
Join the session from a computer via a CPS account
Participate the entire duration of the session
Have their camera turned on for the duration of the session
Facilitators will attempt to reach participants 3 times if they are not meeting expectations before participants may be removed from the session and become ineligible for payment and ISBE hours.
Manager of Digital Learning Design & Instructional AI, Chicago Public Schools
Alex is the Manager of Digital Learning Design and Instructional GenAI at CPS Over two decades in the classroom and now leading district level work in K-12. He has specialized in driving innovative educational initiatives and leveraging technologies like GenAI to reimagine learning... Read More →
