Your Graphic Design pathway can only certify students in what its teacher is certified in.
BRM Professional Development closes that gap — Adobe fluency, CTAE curriculum capacity, and AI integration built for teachers, tied directly to Pathway Skills Seal completion and Perkins V reporting.
About D.J. Johnson
D.J. Johnson spent 26 years in the classroom — 15 teaching Social Studies and Geography, 11 teaching Graphic Design and Digital Media He's not a consultant who left the classroom to talk about it.
He holds five Adobe Certified Professional credentials: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Visual Design, and Marketing Design. He led students to SkillsUSA State Championships and currently builds the Adobe Illustrator Certification course under contract with Brain Buffet.
BRM Professional Development exists because most districts can't certify students in more than their teachers already know. We closes that gap directly — Adobe fluency, CTAE curriculum design, and AI integration, taught by someone who's passed the same exams the industry requires.
THREE ANCHOR PRODUCTS. ONE CREDENTIAL THREAD
Cormorant Garamond is a classic font with a modern twist. It's easy to read on screens of every shape and size, and perfect for long blocks of text.
ADOBE ESSENTIALS FOR EDUCATORS
Foundational fluency across Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Express — delivered self-paced or live, badge-backed, built on the Adobe Educator Exchange baseline.
T1 / T2/T3
AEX BADGE
CTAE GRAPHIC DESIGN CURRICULUM- DESIGN & DELIVERY
Pathway-aligned curriculum and facilitation for Graphic Design classrooms — mapped to GaDOE standards, PMI vocabulary, PrintED and SkillsUSA credential routes.
T1 / T2/T3
PATHWAY-ALIGNED
AI INTEGRATION FOR TEACHERS (CORE AND CAREER & TECHNOLOGY
Practical AI fluency for CTE classrooms — tools, ethics, and workflow, grounded in Anthropic's AI Fluency for Educators framework and adapted for design and technical pathways.
T1 / T2/T3
AI FLUENCY
Who We Serve
Individual Teachers
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A single workshop or self-paced badge closing one teacher's own credential gap. The lowest-friction entry point into the BRM PD pipeline.
Schools
& Departments
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A session series delivered across a department or PD day — shared training, shared outcome, paced across a school year.
District Resources
& Compliance
Annual license, SCORM-deployed, certification-backed — the tier tied directly to Pathway Skills Seal rates and Perkins V compliance reporting.
