Back to school season is here. Whether you're a seasoned Certiport veteran, or brand new to certification, we know this episode will help you have a successful year. We were lucky enough to sit down with two members of our Certiport team: Caitlin O'Brien and Jason Majors.

Caitlin O'Brien has been with Certiport for nearly 12 years with the entirety of her career spent in customer service and client support roles, most recently taking over management of the Candidate Services and Customer Support teams. She always tries to maintain a 'customer first' mindset and is a passionate advocate for the candidates and teachers her teams support. When not working Caitlin loves to spend time in her ceramics studio making pottery and enjoys the outdoors by hiking, climbing, and skiing.

Jason Majors is the Director of Global Deployment for Certiport. He comes from the classroom where he prepared students for Adobe Certified Professional and Microsoft Office Specialist certifications during his five years of leading the Digital Design Academy at Escambia High School in Pensacola, FL. While teaching, he was also the lead trainer for the Microsoft Imagine Academy and traveled around the United States training teachers on best practices for preparing students to successfully earn industry certifications. He now leads the Certiport Deployment team, working with large accounts to ensure teacher and student success with certification programs.

In this episode, we'll learn from Caitlin and Jason about how to launch and run a thriving certification program this year. We cover everything from teaching resources to IT set-up, and how to celebrate student success. You'll certainly walk away with ideas for how to streamline your certification classroom this year.

Caitlin and Jason mentioned a library full of resources to help you in your classroom. Find them all here:

• Learning Materials and Practice Tests: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Educator-resources/Learning-products.

• Objective Domains: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Educator-resources/Exam-details/Objective-domains.aspx.

• Certiport's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/certiportcomms.

• CATC Newsletter: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/CATCs/Newsletter

• CERTIFIED Educator LinkedIn Community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8958289/.

• CATC Training Sessions: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/CATCs/Training-sessions

• Compass User Guides: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Support/Quick-reference-guides.

• My Pathway: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Educator-resources/My-Pathway.

• Badging: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Educator-resources/Badging.

• Resume Library: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/resumelibrary.

• ACE College Credit: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Educator-resources/College-Credit.

Need additional support? Contact our fabulous Customer Service team: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Support.aspx.

Find your Certiport Territory Manager for one-on-one support: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Buy/School/Sales.

Get other fun ideas for your classroom on our blog: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/blog.

Don't miss your chance to register for our annual CERTIFIED Educator's Conference here: https://certified.certiport.com/.