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Teacher credential management from IBM
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The goal
Managing teacher credentials
Issuing, tracking and documenting teacher credentials is vital to complying with the No Child Left Behind legislation—as well as to ensuring your teachers are equipped to provide quality instruction. The teacher credentialing solution from IBM provides a complete, effective system for issuing, monitoring and documenting teacher qualifications.

The advantage
The IBM advantage
The teacher credentialing solution combines industry experience, technology and results management. Our commitment to education is proven by:
  • Extensive industry knowledge from an education practice that is made up of former educators and school administrators.
  • IBM education professionals nationwide, with over 350 combined years of K-12 experience.
  • Our extensive E-Rate knowledge and experience.
  • Our demonstrated commitment to education and continuing investment in the IBM Reinventing Education grant program.

IBM has the resources to give you a complete solution, from planning to software and hardware to hosting services—with the convenience of dealing with one vendor.

The benefits
Many useful features
The teacher credentialing solution from IBM is designed to facilitate the credentialing process by offering effective data integration with external sources, such as:
  • University and college transcripts
  • Certification test records
  • Professional exams
  • Background investigations
  • Professional development course information

Our solution can help you perform many essential credentialing functions more easily.
  • Increase accuracy and visibility of information to help guide policy decisions.
  • Provide online applications for teacher credentials and payment of credentialing fees to your school district.
  • Enable parents to check teacher qualifications over the Internet.
  • Allow teachers to take professional exams online.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory mandates using report preparation features.
  • Protect private information with security-rich features.
  • Support the professional conduct investigation process with easier access to teachers’ academic and background information.
  • Support e-government initiatives by interfacing with other governmental information systems.
  • Reduce training time, and encourage use by public and school employees with an intuitive user interface.

The approach
IBM experience
IBM recently implemented a teacher credentialing system for one of the largest states in the U.S. IBM Global Business Services provided needs assessment and implementation services. The solution offered the following capabilities:
  • Look-up of licenses held and credential application status over the Web, with a certain portion of that information available to the general public
  • Online renewal of certain licenses with credit or debit card payments
  • Support for the end-to-end credentialing process for applications received online or via postal mail—including cashiering, application evaluation, fingerprint processing, background checks, and credential granting and printing
  • Extensive reporting and analysis capabilities

The financial advantage
Value for your investment
The teacher credentialing solution from IBM offers online functions designed to reduce costly, inefficient paperwork.
  • Teacher applications for certifications
  • Payment of credentialing fees
  • Verification of teacher qualifications and transcripts

In addition, the solution helps reduce labor costs with:
  • Reports for No Child Left Behind compliance.
  • Easy visibility of teachers’ credentials online, relieving staff of frequent parent inquiries.