College & Career Digital Badges
Our digital badge program helps students build the necessary skills needed to excel in today's highly competitive global economy.
The Challenge
The Profile of the South Carolina Graduate was established as a framework of knowledge, skills, and personal attributes identified by employers and business leaders as being critical to the future success of the state’s workforce and a guide to help produce graduates who are supplied with the necessary skills to excel in today’s highly competitive global marketplace. However, there is not a mechanism in place to track and prove whether a student has mastered the areas of learning prioritized in the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate.
The Solution
The College and Career Innovation Digital Badge (CCIDB) program provides a visual showcase of a student’s college and career readiness by providing students with digital badges that recognize the key skills, knowledge, and characteristics specified by the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate.
Program Benefits
Digital Badge holders gain access to exclusive work-related and higher education opportunities authorized by employers and higher education institutions that endorse the College & Career Digital Badge program. Opportunities include:
- Job shadowing
- Apprenticeships
- Internships
- Site tours
- Mentoring
- Admissions advantages
- Access to coursework
- Research opportunities
Hear From Our Students
Total Badges Earned
We're tracking the progress of our students as they work hard to progress towards the skills, knowledge and characteristics outlined by the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate.
Life and Career Characteristics
169
World Class Skills
284
World Class Knowledge
73
Trekking
60
How It Works
Students will be motivated and engaged as they earn tanglible rewards and have a compelling new way to track and show their progress toward college and career readiness.
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The College & Career Digital Badge curriculum is incorporated into your existing project-based instruction and real-world experience.
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All participating students create a profile on an online platform called Tallo. Students showcase earned bages on Tallo and are able to connect directly with companies and colleges looking for the next generation of talent. Tallo is like LinkedIn for kids and young adults. Learn more about Tallo.
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Afterschool educators, teachers, facilitators, or program team leaders assess the students' mastery of badges and classifies their level as emerging, developing, or exemplar.
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Once a student earns each Pathway Badge, they are awarded a Destination Badge.
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After earning all three of the Destination badges, students meet the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate!
The Badges
Badges are awarded in four areas as defined by the Profile of a South Carolina Graduate.
Life & Career Characteristics
Tenacity
Students who earn the Tenacity Digital Badge demonstrate persistence in work and problem-solving despite obstacles. Additionally, they leverage self-awareness and goals to guide decision-making.
Social
Students who earn the Social Digital Badge demonstrate key interpersonal skills necessary for success. These skills include self-awareness & self-confidence, communication, active listening, positive/encouraging attitude, relatability, ability to empathize and connect, emotional intelligence, approachability, tolerance and respect for others, diplomacy, teachability, and open-mindedness.
Drive
Self-Direction is an important Life and Career Characteristic. Students who earn the Drive Digital Badge demonstrate the ability to regulate and adapt behavior to the demands of a situation in order to achieve personally chosen goals and values. They reflect the attribute of using the resources available to them based on their own initiative. They manage their goals and time and work independently and tend to be self-directed learners.
Work Ethic
Having a strong Work Ethic means one understands that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward. Students earning the Work Ethic Digital Badge have demonstrated these qualities.
Integrity
Students who earn the Integrity Badge personify strong moral principles. These students understand the gravity of fairness and honesty and continuously work to uphold themselves to those standards.
Direction
The Direction Badge symbolizes an emphasized understanding of future goals. Students who earn this badge have a great comprehension of the goals set out for them and what steps need to be taken in order to achieve them. They often times have big aspirations and are determined in their ability to accomplish them.
Perspective
Students who earn the Perspective Badge are well-rounded in their worldview. They are flexible in their mindset and actively strive towards growth. Students are empathetic to outlooks that differ from their own.
World Class Skills
Teamwork
Teamwork is an important World Class Skill. Students who earn the Teamwork Digital Badge demonstrate the ability to be attentive and culturally aware, resolve conflict appropriately, use technology tools effectively, and take responsibility for personal and group productivity.
Media/Tech
Students who earn the Media/Tech Digital Badge demonstrate the ability to develop and present effective messages and contribute to groups through appropriate interactions and active listening. Badge holders are adept at communication and the use of information, media, and technology
Solving
Students who earn the Solving Digital Badge demonstrate the ability to objectively use research, analysis, rapid prototyping, and feedback to formulate a problem. Additionally, they are able to use good judgement to develop, test, and refine a reasonable solution or plan.
Creativity
The creativity badge is representative of a powerful imagination. Students who earn the Creativity Badge embrace uniqueness and appreciate the nonnormative. They are often inventive people with a great ability to expand their minds.
Learning
Students who earn the Learning Badge demonstrate an interest in expanding their knowledge. Their knowledge can be defined through new skills, behavior, information, and perspectives. They carry the ability to continuously grow through experience and education.
World Class Knowledge
S.T.E.M.
Students who earn a S.T.E.M. Badge have attained knowledge in the four disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.
Grammar
Students earning the Grammar Digital Badge demonstrated the ability to communicate clearly using written and spoken language. They have mastered the ability to communicate in a clear manner that people understand through the use of basic rules of sentence construction, punctuation, and spelling.
Math
Students who earn the Math Badge have demonstrated a strong understanding of mathematics. They have a great comprehension of numerical performances and mathematical concepts. They show advanced knowledge of deductive reasoning, problem-solving, and pattern recognition.
Language
The Language Badge represents extended knowledge of a foreign language. Students who earned this badge show advancement in speaking, listening, reading, and writing of a foreign language. This badge also symbolizes a cultural understanding in which this language is used.
Arts
Students who have earned the Arts Badge demonstrate skills and talent to create works of art. Art can extend from graphic design, painting, sculpting, drawing, dancing, singing, acting, etc. Badge earners utilize art as a creative outlet and have a great understanding of harmony and beauty.
Trekking
CPR/AED
The S.T.E.M. Badge for CPR is a Trekking Badge limited specifically to students who have completed the Heartsaver® First Aid CPR/AED. The Heartsaver® First Aid CPR/AED course teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrive.
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurialism allows students to leverage the skills and knowledge they have acquired in order to improve society, advance the field of their choosing, or to simply generate income to build towards personal wealth. Students earning the Entrepreneur Digital Badge have demonstrated that they are able to identify opportunities, create, and evaluate business ideas, and explore the feasibility of an idea for a new business.
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