Micro-credentials for educators offer an important opportunity to strengthen professional learning at scale. Accessed and awarded online, micro-credentials leverage an online technology platform to provide educators competency-based, on-demand, personalized, and shareable opportunities to demonstrate and be recognized for their professional learning. This paper examines how Digital Promise has ensured the content of the micro-credentials in its ecosystem and the process for earning them are anchored in rigorous research. The paper explores how Digital Promise screens prospective issuers to understand the research grounding their work.