Certification
A certificate that says the teacher did it
Four cumulative levels, earned on assignments, a classroom practicum and an evidence-based capstone — not on attendance. The certificate is issued by PrepGraph Academy and says exactly what it is.
4
cumulative levels
25
hours to Level 3
1
real classroom practicum
2
assessors on every Level 3 decision
The four levels
Cumulative and performance-based
Each level includes everything below it. Attending a session earns nothing on its own: every level has a piece of work behind it, assessed against a rubric published on the module page. Levels 1–3 are earned inside the 25 hours; Level 4 is by school nomination, after a teacher has mentored others.
- Level 1 6 h cumulative
AI-Aware Educator
PrepGraph AI-Aware Educator
Can explain what AI can and cannot reliably do, recognise bias and privacy risks, and describe the teacher-decides principle in their own classroom terms.
- ✓Attend Modules 1–3 (6 hours)
- ✓Pass the foundations check (short scenario-based quiz, 80%)
- ✓Submit the Module 1 verify-before-use log and the Module 2 responsible-use reflection
- Level 2 14 h cumulative
AI-Enabled Educator
PrepGraph AI-Enabled Educator
Can plan a chapter around prerequisites and misconceptions, write competency questions, read an assessment for gaps rather than marks, and differentiate a remediation plan — and, from the Module 1 log, can use an AI assistant for real lesson-preparation tasks and verify what it returns before use.
- ✓Level 1, plus Modules 4–6 (8 hours)
- ✓Submit the Module 4 task redesign with a computational reading of one class result
- ✓Submit one chapter decomposition with misconception map, with at least two draft competency questions and a distractor map (Module 5)
- ✓Submit one competency-based diagnostic with a gap analysis of real (or sample) results (Module 6)
- Level 3 Certificate
Certified AI-Enabled Educator
PrepGraph Certified AI-Enabled Educator
Has actually run the workflow with real students and can show the evidence: which concepts were weak, what was done for whom, and what changed on reassessment.
- ✓Level 2, plus Modules 7–10 (11 hours)
- ✓Complete the Level 3 portfolio — the Module 3 decision log, the Module 7 productivity-lab portfolio and the Module 8 loop record
- ✓Run the classroom practicum with one class, one chapter, 10–30 students — teach, diagnose, intervene, reassess (Module 9)
- ✓Submit and present the capstone case study with before/after evidence (Module 10)
- ✓Pass the end-of-programme assessment
- Level 4 By nomination
AI Mentor Educator
PrepGraph AI Mentor Educator
The school's in-house AI Champion: runs internal workshops, mentors new cohorts, and carries the workflow forward without PrepGraph staff on site.
- ✓Level 3, plus two further documented classroom interventions
- ✓Co-facilitate at least one module for colleagues
- ✓Mentor two teachers through their practicum
- ✓Nominated by the school as an AI Champion
Module-by-module rubrics are on each module page. See the ten modules
Requirements
What each level takes
Modules, hours, the work assessed, the classroom evidence required and who assesses it. Levels 1–3 are decided inside the school’s 12-week run (assessment in Week 11, certificates in Week 12); Level 4 follows a later cohort.
| Level | Modules | Hours | Assessments & assignments | Classroom evidence | Who assesses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level 1 AI-Aware Educator | Modules 1–3 | 6 h |
| None required from students. The Module 1 log draws on the teacher’s own week of AI use. | Cohort facilitator (PrepGraph Academy) |
| Level 2 AI-Enabled Educator | Level 1 + Modules 4–6 | 14 h cumulative |
| Optional. The Module 6 gap analysis may use sample results if the teacher has not yet run the diagnostic with a class; real results are encouraged. | Cohort facilitator, against the rubric on each module page |
| Level 3 Certified AI-Enabled Educator Certificate | Level 2 + Modules 7–10 | 25 h + practicum time in class |
| Required. A diagnostic, a named-student intervention and a reassessment on the same competencies, with before/after results from the teacher’s own dashboard and the teacher’s reading of them. | Cohort facilitator + a second PrepGraph Academy assessor (moderation). The school’s leadership sits in on capstone presentations. |
| Level 4 AI Mentor Educator By nomination | No new modules | Level 3 + mentoring over a following cohort |
| Required. Two interventions with before/after evidence, plus the two mentees’ own practicum logs. | PrepGraph Academy, on the school’s nomination of the teacher as an AI Champion |
Practicum classes are provisioned with the student AI tutor by the school or pilot for the four weeks, so every teacher’s students can use it regardless of plan. The evidence the teacher submits comes from their own teacher dashboard — assignment results by student and by question, the student profile, and the reassessment.
What the certificate says
Exact wording, no more
The certificate names the programme, the hours and the alignment — and is explicit about who issued it. This is the Level 3 certificate as printed.
PrepGraph Academy
This is to certify that
Name as recorded by the school
has met the requirements of the programme and is a
PrepGraph Certified AI-Enabled Educator
- 25-Hour Professional Development Programme
- Aligned with the CBSE 2026-27 Training Theme: Computational Thinking and Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Aligned with CBSE/NPST Professional Development Domains
- School
- School name, city
- Cohort
- e.g. Cohort 2026-27 / 01
- Date
- Date of issue
- Certificate ID
- Unique ID, e.g. PGA-2627-XXXXX
- Signatory
- PrepGraph Academy
Programme year 2026-27
What it is not
We write this down because CBSE has had to disclaim training offers made in its name (CBSE Disclaimer, 18 July 2024). The certificate will never say, and we will never say on its behalf:
- CBSE Certified / CBSE Approved / CBSE Recognised AI teacher (unless CBSE formally grants it)
- "As per CBSE official syllabus"
- Any use of the CBSE logo or emblem
- That a PrepGraph certificate is itself a CBSE CPD certificate
- Outcome claims about student learning from the product ("improves results", "proven impact")
Levels 1, 2 and 4
Levels 1 and 2 are printed on the same layout with their own titles — “PrepGraph AI-Aware Educator” (6 hours) and “PrepGraph AI-Enabled Educator” (14 hours) — and the same two alignment lines. Only the Level 3 certificate carries “25-Hour Professional Development Programme”. Level 4 reads “PrepGraph AI Mentor Educator”.
Assessment design
How the work is judged
Observable evidence against rubrics the teacher has already seen. Nothing is marked by impression, and no level is decided by one person alone at Level 3.
Foundations check
Ten scenario items at the end of Module 1 — “a dashboard flags Aarav; what do you do first?” — marked on the spot; 80% to pass. Plus two short written pieces: the Module 1 verify-before-use log and the Module 2 responsible-use reflection. It checks understanding, not recall of vocabulary.
Assignment portfolio
Three artefacts from the teacher’s own subject: a computational-thinking task (Module 4), a chapter decomposition with misconception map (Module 5), and a competency diagnostic with gap analysis (Module 6). Each is marked against the rubric printed on that module’s page — the same rubric the teacher saw before starting.
Practicum, capstone and end-of-programme assessment
The Level 3 portfolio — the Module 3 decision log, the Module 7 artefacts and the Module 8 loop record — is read against the module rubrics. The practicum log is the evidence (four weeks with real students); the capstone is the teacher’s reading of it in the CBSE Format F1 structure, presented to peers and school leadership in Week 10. The end-of-programme assessment in Week 11 is a scenario paper: read a section’s diagnostic results, name the gap, plan the intervention, say what you would reassess and what you would tell a parent.
Rubrics are published first
Every assignment rubric is on the module page before the session runs. Criteria describe observable evidence (“at least one entry shows a factual check against a named source”), not impressions. Teachers can self-assess before submitting, and often do.
Moderation by a second assessor
Every Level 3 decision is read by two people: the cohort facilitator and a second PrepGraph Academy assessor who did not teach the cohort. Where they disagree, the capstone is discussed and the teacher hears the reasoning. The school’s leadership sees the presentations but does not mark.
Resubmission, once
A piece of work that does not yet meet the standard comes back with the rubric marked and a short note. The teacher may resubmit once, within two weeks. A practicum that could not be completed — timetable, exams, a transfer — can be carried into the school’s next cohort without repeating the taught modules.
Validity and renewal
Dated, not expiring
Every certificate carries the programme year it was earned in (for example, 2026-27). It stays a true record of what the teacher did that year. “Renewal” is about staying current as the tools and the CBSE theme move — it does not cancel the original certificate.
- 1 To carry a current-year endorsement, a certified teacher submits one documented classroom intervention a year — diagnostic, intervention, reassessment, in the practicum-log format — to PrepGraph Academy for review.
- 2 Teachers active on the mentor track (Level 4) are current by virtue of the mentoring record; no separate submission.
- 3 Current-year endorsements are issued as an added line on the certificate record, not a new certificate. Schools can ask us to confirm it (see verification below).
Programme year 2026-27
We keep this modest on purpose. A teacher who ran the workflow well in 2026-27 has done the thing; we would rather see one honest intervention a year than an annual quiz.
Level 4
AI Mentor Educator — the school’s AI Champions
Level 4 is for the two or three teachers in a school who carry the workflow forward once PrepGraph staff are no longer on site. It is by school nomination, opens after a school’s first cohort has certified, and is not available before then.
What a mentor does
- •Co-facilitates modules for the school’s next cohort, with PrepGraph Academy materials
- •Runs the weekly 30-minute practicum clinic for new teachers
- •Mentors two teachers through their own practicum, start to capstone
- •Keeps the school’s AI and responsible-use policies in use — the annual review, the student and parent sessions
- •Is the person a colleague asks before acting on an early-warning flag they are unsure about
How a teacher gets there
- Level 3, plus two further documented classroom interventions
- Co-facilitate at least one module for colleagues
- Mentor two teachers through their practicum
- Nominated by the school as an AI Champion
A mentor is not a PrepGraph employee or reseller. The role is pedagogical: helping colleagues read evidence and decide. Mentors receive the facilitator pack for Modules 1–6 and are credited on the cohort record.
For schools
PrepGraph AI-Enabled School Recognition
A school-level recognition issued by PrepGraph once the programme has actually taken root — most teachers certified, policies in place, champions named, students and parents briefed, and evidence that personalised intervention is happening in classrooms. It comes later: the criteria are published now, applications are not yet open, and a school can qualify only after its first full cohort, once 70–80% of its participating teachers have certified at Level 3.
PrepGraph recognition, not CBSE accreditation. This is PrepGraph recognition, not CBSE accreditation. It does not change how the school records CPD hours and it confers no status with the Board.
The criteria
- 70–80% of participating teachers certified at Level 3 (PrepGraph Certified AI-Enabled Educator)
- A written school AI policy, adopted by management
- A responsible-use policy for staff and students, in use
- At least two AI Champions nominated (Level 4 track)
- A student AI-awareness session held (Classes 6–12), with attendance recorded
- A parent AI-awareness session held, typically at a PTM
- Evidence of personalised intervention — the cohort’s practicum capstones, with before/after reassessment
- Implementation metrics from the Teacher Activation Funnel: teachers who logged in, reviewed a diagnostic, assigned an intervention, reviewed progress and repeated the workflow
Once recognised
Recognised schools receive a dated recognition letter, a cohort record of certified teachers and champions, and a review after one year against the same criteria. Templates for the policies and sessions are in the resources section.
Verification
Every certificate has a unique ID
Each certificate carries a unique ID and the cohort it was earned in. A school, a trust or a future employer can ask us to confirm it. There is no online lookup yet; verification is by email.
- 1 Email [email protected] with the certificate ID and the teacher’s name as printed.
- 2 We reply within two working days confirming the level, the cohort, the school and the date of issue — or stating that no such certificate exists.
- 3 For current-year endorsements (see renewal), the reply states the latest year on record.
We do not share anything beyond what is printed on the certificate, and we do not confirm certificates to anyone the teacher has not shown the ID to.
Verify a certificate
[email protected]Include the certificate ID and the teacher’s name as printed. Reply within two working days.
Independent programme, not a CBSE certification. PrepGraph Academy is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or accredited by the Central Board of Secondary Education. Certificates are issued by PrepGraph. The programme is designed around the CBSE 2026-27 training theme and the CBSE/NPST professional-development domains; the host school decides how to record the hours under CBSE’s CPD guidelines and keeps the attendance records — we supply the templates.
Certify a cohort in your school
Tell us your board, grades and teacher count. We’ll reply within two working days with a 12-week cohort plan, the assessment calendar and the CPD record templates your coordinator keeps.