ESP Professional Growth Continuum

NEA Education Support Professionals Micro-credential Library

Earn recognition for your skills and knowledge by pursuing the newly updated NEA ESP Professional Growth Continuum micro-credentials.  Developed for ESP members by ESP members, these micro-credentials validate your professional impact and make your resume pop. 

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THE STANDARDS SPAN ACROSS ALL CAREER FAMILIES AND PROVIDE ESPS WITH

• a way to identify skills, knowledge, experience, and responsibility they bring to the job and want to strengthen to better serve their community, students, and school;  
• the language to describe their value and impact on the school, district, or worksite with peers, supervisors, families, community members, and school leadership;  
• guidance on how to advance their skill set through leadership, mentorship, serving as a peer role model; and 
• a Standards-based demonstration through the NEA PGC micro-credentials of skills and knowledge that can be used to bargain for: time, space, and money for professional development; paid professional development; continuing education credits; and movement on a salary scale (e.g., increased pay or stipends). 

Implement the PGC Standards into Your Professional Practice

• Take a look at the Standards for your career family. (Download below)

• Watch the NEA ESP Quality Department webinar, The PGC: What it is and How to use it

  • English video

  • Spanish video

  • Spanish resources

    Note: Hardcopies of the PGC are no longer available, but are available to download below.

• Take online courses! NEA offers free, self-paced independent study online courses for each of the universal standards. Get started >

Learn more about how to implement the PGC into your professional practice.