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Scrum for Students Certification

Scrum for Students equips learners with teamwork and leadership skills used by real-world teams.

Career-ready skills. One powerful day.

Why Career Technical Educators Are Bringing Scrum to the Classroom

Scrum is more than a project framework. It's how modern teams work—whether in healthcare, engineering, marketing, or tech.

Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs already deliver job-specific skills. Scrum complements that by teaching students how to plan, adapt, and collaborate in real-world environments.

CTE gives students a path. Scrum prepares them to lead wherever it takes them.

✅ Builds transferable skills employers expect: communication, reflection, decision-making, and shared leadership

✅ Reinforces project-based learning through structure and roles

✅ Meets Work Based Learning (WBL), Career Ready Practices (CRP), and Perkins V goals with a credential students can use

What This Delivers for CTE Programs

how teams plan, adapt, and deliver across tech, health, business, and more

🎓 Supports career-connected learning

Real roles, structure, reflection, and iteration—ideal for project-based learning and work-based experiences

📅 Career-ready process

How teams plan, adapt, and deliver across tech, health, business, and more


📄 Work students can show

Visible task boards, team roles, reflection notes, and project goals

🏆 Scrum for Students certificate

Earn the credential that stands out on resumes and college applications

🌍 Used worldwide

Scrum is the teamwork standard in many industries. Give your students a head start.

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What Is Scrum?

Scrum is now used across tech, healthcare, marketing, STEM, finance, and skilled trades to help teams stay aligned, deliver results, and adapt quickly to changing needs.

Here's how it works:

Defined Roles – The Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers each bring focus and clarity to the team. No blurred responsibilities. Everyone contributes.

Sprint Events – Work happens in short, focused cycles called Sprints, driven by structured events like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.

Core Artifacts – A Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Increment make priorities visible and track progress.

Career First. Classroom Ready.

Scrum for Students is a workforce-aligned experience rooted in how real teams operate.

  • Students take on meaningful roles: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Developers

  • They plan, communicate, and adapt using Agile tools and processes

  • They reflect, inspect, and improve with every sprint

Students learn how to lead and contribute inside a system built for shared responsibility.
And once they get it, they can use it again:

  • For senior projects

  • For CTSO (Career and Technical Student Organization) competitions

  • For any class or capstone where real collaboration is expected

🔹 What’s a CTSO?
Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs) like HOSA, FBLA, DECA, and SkillsUSA give students the opportunity to apply career skills in competitions, leadership roles, and service projects. Scrum strengthens their ability to lead teams and deliver results in these contexts.

What Students Will Learn

These aren’t just terms to memorize—students will walk away understanding how Scrum works and how teams use it to succeed in the real world.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Understand Scrum Roles

Describe the responsibilities of the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Developers.

📅 Examine A Sprint Cycle

Explain the purpose and order of Scrum’s core events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.

🧾 Understand how Scrum artifacts support team focus and transparency

Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Increment

🧭 Analyze Scrum Values & Empiricism

Analyze how Scrum’s values and empirical process help teams learn and improve over time.

🚀 Apply Scrum in Action

Use Scrum to solve a problem or create a simple product in a team-based simulation.

Real-World Outcomes

For Students

  • A globally recognized certificate backed by a Certified Scrum Trainer®—ideal for resumes, college applications, and LinkedIn profiles

  • Transferable skills: leading projects, adapting plans, communicating clearly, and delivering results

  • A system students can apply again—in capstones, Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) projects, or any real team project

  • The mindset to lead, reflect, and grow inside high-performing teams

  • Confidence using a system employers already trust

For CTE Programs

  • Alignment with WBL, CRP, and Perkins V goals

  • Evidence of rigorous, career-aligned instruction

  • Engaging, high-retention instruction that supports inclusion and equity

  • A scalable, low-overhead solution that enhances multiple career pathways

Why CTE Teachers Trust This Program

This program was built with CTE educators. Not just for them.

Created by Certified Scrum Trainer and co-developed with experienced CTE educators across multiple pathways.

Delivered only by:

  • Certified ScrumMasters (CSM) through Scrum Alliance

  • 🎓 CTE educators who completed the Scrum for Students Guide Training Program

These instructors understand your world.

They’ve taught in K–12. They know your goals, your constraints, and what it takes to engage students.
They also know how Scrum is used in the real world—and how to bridge that gap in the classroom.

When students stop waiting to be told what to do, they lead. These instructors help make that shift happen.

“It wasn’t theory. It was action.”

Lisa T

CTE Teacher, California

"Group projects used to be chaos. Scrum gave my students structure and gave me a way to assess real collaboration.”

James Carter

Engineering Pathway Teacher

“It was the first time I saw my students truly lead a project. Not just follow directions, but actually lead.”

Maria Gomez

Business & Marketing Teacher, Texas

Ready to Bring Scrum to Your Students?

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Students earn the Scrum for Students Certificate by completing:

🕒 6 hours of live, hands-on training led by a Certified Scrum for Students Guide

💻 Followed by a short online assessment to confirm understanding

🎓 Training can be delivered in one day or split into multiple sessions—virtual or in-person

No busywork. Just real skills students can use right away.