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Koydo-Certified Training Centers
Issue the credential to your own tutors, under your roof, against a public standard — the institutional model that made CRLA's program spread.
In brief
A Koydo-Certified Training Center is a school, microschool, or district approved to issue Koydo tutor credentials to its own tutors under the public Koydo Tutor Quality Standard. It mirrors the issuing-center model that grew CRLA's tutor-training certification to more than a thousand programs: the institution adopts a recognized standard and gains a credential to own, while each tutor earns a portable, verifiable Open Badges 3.0 credential. Centers issue against the same versioned standard — the multi-modal entry exam, safeguarding screening, server-computed logged hours, and assessed lessons — and are periodically recertified. Every credential records the standard version it was measured against, so credentials remain interpretable over time, and a lapse in a center's status or a tutor's safeguarding check is reflected on the public verification page immediately.
How it works
- 1. Adopt the public standard and apply to become a Training Center for your subject(s).
- 2. On approval, your institution is authorized to issue Koydo credentials at the approved tiers.
- 3. Your tutors earn against the same exam, safeguarding, hours, and assessed-lesson bar — issued under your name, verifiable by anyone.
- 4. Your center is periodically recertified to keep the bar honest.
Interested in becoming a Training Center?
Training-center onboarding is rolling out. Read the standard, then reach us through your institution's Koydo contact or our support page to register interest.
Institutions FAQ
- What does becoming a Training Center mean?
- Your institution adopts the public Koydo Tutor Quality Standard and is approved to issue Koydo credentials to your own tutors — the model that let CRLA's program spread to 1,000+ centers. Your tutors earn a portable credential; you gain one to own and point to.
- How is quality kept honest?
- Centers issue against the same versioned standard, with the same multi-modal exam, safeguarding, server-computed hours, and assessed lessons. Centers are periodically recertified, and any issued credential carries the standard version it was measured against.
- Why would a school adopt it?
- External validation buys faculty and parent trust; the credential is portable for the tutor and ownable for the institution; the standard is public and crosswalked to CRLA and NSSA; and integrity controls (background checks, annual evaluation, recertification) keep the bar defensible.