Show Your Pride as an NBCT – Add The Command and Your Digital Badge!
Congratulations again on earning your National Board Certification! As an accomplished educator, you’ve reached one of the highest professional milestones in teaching.
Have you added “, NBCT” or your NBCT digital badge to your email signature and social media accounts yet? If not, please do! These are powerful tools to raise awareness of National Board Certification—not just for you, but for our entire profession.
National Board offers a digital badge that allows accomplished teachers to share their NBCT status widely and proudly. We are incredibly proud of your achievement and hope you will help celebrate and promote it.
Next month, all new and renewed/maintained NBCTs will receive an email from admin@credly.com, National Board’s vendor, with instructions to get started. The email will include a link to create a Credly account, where you can accept and manage your digital badge. If you have questions, please be sure be sure to visit the Help Page if you have questions.
If you do not receive an email from admin@credly.com by the end of next month, please contact NationalBoard@nbpts.org for assistance.
Add your badge today as part of Team NBCT Week! Click here for a step-by-step how-to video.
National Board Digital Badge FAQs
Q: What is a digital badge?
A: A digital badge is a web-enabled version of a credential or certification that is verified as being valid. Only verified NBCTs can display this digital badge.
Q: What are the benefits of a badge?
A: Representing your National Board certification as a badge gives you a way to share your certification online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified. Badges provide employers and peers with concrete evidence of what you had to do to earn Board certification.
Q: Who is Credly?
A: Credly is the National Board’s digital badge vendor. They work with organizations to provide digital credentials to individuals, worldwide.
Q: What if I don’t want my badge to be public?
A: You can easily configure your privacy settings online. You’re in complete control of the information about yourself that is made public.
Q: Is there a fee to use Credly?
A: No. This is a service we provide to you, at no cost.
Q: Where and how can I share my badge through Credly?
A: You can share your badge directly from the Credly platform to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.
Q: I have a question about the Credly platform. Where can I find support?
A: You can find answers to frequently asked questions on the Help Page.
