The Center for Digital Pedagogy (CFDP): AI literacy your institution can stand behind

The problem institutions actually face

Children are already using AI. What most institutions lack is not enthusiasm but assurance: a way to teach AI literacy that is compliant with children's-data and AI law, resistant to the obvious failure modes, and rigorous enough to defend to a board, a parent body, or a regulator. Off-the-shelf "AI for kids" tools are typically built for well-resourced classrooms, cannot evidence their safety claims, and were never designed to be inspected. CFDP was.

What CFDP offers

• Teacher certification. O.C.F.T.-aligned certification for educators, built on assessment rubrics designed to be unfakeable. Teachers leave able to teach AI literacy — and to certify that they can.
• Curriculum licensing. Standards-aligned curriculum (ISTE/CSTA), rooted in local context — imigani, Kinyarwanda, and culturally grounded material where relevant — and licensable at the school, district, or ministry level.
• Institutional pilots. A structured pilot in one region or cohort, instrumented from day one, so the decision to scale rests on your own impact data rather than a vendor's promise.

Compliance and trust posture

Every claim below is verifiable. A false assurance to an institution — as to a parent — is worse than none.

• COPPA compliant — data minimization and parent-first flows on every surface a child touches.
• EU AI Act Ready (Phase 2) — transparency and human oversight on all AI-assisted instructional content.
• Rwanda DPL aligned — built in East Africa, for East Africa, held to local data-protection law.
• SynthID provenance on every asset — origin verifiable, not asserted.
• AI-assisted, human-edited under Premium Stylized Realism — and a rule we do not break: no photorealistic AI images of minors, ever.

Pricing and access

Access is part of the model, not a discount at the end.

• Developed schools: Full Curriculum $499/year; O.C.F.T. teacher certification $199/year — annual licensing.
• Emerging schools: designed around the reality that school budgets are thin. The default is $1 per child per year, collected from parents — about the cost of one soft drink a year — so access never depends on a budget line that isn't there. Participating schools receive free teacher licenses and O.C.F.T. certification in return. Where even that is a stretch, an NGO, donor, or developed-market partner sponsors a classroom — $30 covers 30 children for a year. Ministry and district agreements are welcomed for scale.
• Cross-subsidy: developed-market partners fund emerging-market access — one developed school licence underwrites roughly 500 emerging kid-years. A school in Rwanda and a family in London can both belong; the second helps sponsor the first.

Founding Partner program. Schools, NGOs, and ministries that commit to a pilot or licence before 30 September 2026 lock a three-year rate, receive Founding Partner status and a co-branded case study, and help shape the curriculum.

The path: pilot → prove → scale

1. Pilot. Run one region or cohort — offered free or at low cost — instrumented from day one against agreed measures.
2. Prove. Review the impact data together. Scale is earned, not assumed.
3. Scale. Expand certification and licensing on evidence — at the pace the data supports.

Aviation-grade care, applied to how children learn with AI: start small, measure honestly, scale only on proof.