# Preston Trebas

> Educator turned credential and AI strategist, making complex systems usable for the people inside them. Available for facilitation, consulting, and speaking on credential integrity, AI governance, and learning design.

Website: https://www.ptrebas.com/
Contact: ptrebas@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prestontrebas/
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

## Current role
- Credential Integrity Strategist, Academic Standards and Policy, Western Governors University (2025 to present)
- Business owner of the Credit for Prior Learning 2.0 initiative

## Education
- PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Capitol Technology University (in progress, began Fall 2026)
- M.Ed., Integrated Curriculum and Educational Leadership, American College of Education (2022, 4.0 GPA)
- B.S., Elementary Education and TESOL, Brigham Young University (2015)
- Utah Professional Educator License (current)

## Expertise
Credential integrity, competency frameworks, rubric design, standards decomposition and mapping, rich skill descriptors, credit for prior learning, AI governance, responsible AI, meaningful human control, learning design, K-12 education, professional learning facilitation.

## Signature work
- Institution: public WGU Unified Achievement Framework, Core Academic Commitments, and Third-Party Certificate and Certification Assessment Rubric; designed the WGU CPE rubric and framework (20 standards mapped to five commitments).
- AI: facilitates the AI Student Policy Task Force and leads implementation across five workstreams; designed a governed request workflow that places AI step by step (not in the room, sent off with verification, or in the room under human direction).
- Research: doctoral study on expert consensus about human-reserved decisions across the AI-assisted credential lifecycle (qualitative modified Delphi, three rounds).
- K-12: Controlled Chaos, a live session and teacher kit for collaborative, game-based learning; eight years teaching K-8; 2021 Orange County CUE Emerging Teacher of the Year.

## Publications
- The Show Matters: Inspiring Ideas to Ignite Hope, Wonder, & Imagination in Your Classroom (co-author, 2019, ISBN 9780578621555)
- Sloth + Spider: Try Did It All (co-author, 2021, ISBN 9780578912967)

## Speaking
- CAEL 2026: From Workforce Learning to Degrees: Building Employer and CPL Pathways (co-presenter)
- Badge Summit 2026: Ensuring Trusted and Transparent Credentials in Higher Education (co-presenter)

## Pages
- Portfolio home: https://www.ptrebas.com/
- Résumé: available as a PDF download from the portfolio home page