Programme C · Sahodaya / district · Lead School hosted
Help a Lead School host a CT & AI district workshop
Help a Lead School host a CBSE-format District Level Deliberation on CT & AI — and host it well. The school hosts and records; CBSE’s format applies; PrepGraph supports the host.
1 day
offline, Lead School hosted
~40
participants (CBSE guidelines)
6 h
school-recorded CPD, Domain-II
7
CBSE sub-themes to choose from
The formats
Two CBSE-suggested formats a school can host
From CBSE Notification TRG-02, 09 April 2026 and the 2026 DLD guidelines. The Lead School is the organiser in both; the school records the hours.
Activity 1
District Level Deliberations on CT & AI (Workshop)
- Organiser:
- A volunteering "Lead School", via the Sahodaya School Complex or a group of willing schools
- Mode:
- Offline, one day
- CPD:
- 6 hours of school-based CPD under Domain-II
A forum where teachers present case papers on CT & AI practice (Format F1), judged by an Appreciation Committee (Format F4); topic, venue and inviting experts are the organiser's responsibility; training records must be maintained.
PrepGraph’s role: support the Lead School before, during and after; deliver the expert-led session within the day; keep any product demonstration separate and optional.
Activity 2
Expert-Led Talks on CT & AI in Schools
- Organiser:
- A Lead School, as a specialised online/offline session on any sub-theme
- Mode:
- Half day, facilitated by internal or external experts invited by the school
- CPD:
- 3 hours of school-based CPD under Domain-II
Participation / attendance records must be maintained for CPD-hours integration.
PrepGraph as the invited expert for a half-day talk. A three-hour session built from Modules 1 and 2 of the teacher programme — what AI is and is not, a hallucination lab teachers do on their own phones, bias, privacy, integrity and student data, and the teacher-decides principle. Online or offline, on the sub-theme the school chooses. Platform-agnostic; the school keeps the attendance record.
CBSE’s third format — Regional Workshops / Orientations on CT & AI — is run by the Board itself. Organiser: CBSE Centres of Excellence (hosted by the Board). Mode: Online registration, ₹700 fee. Schools nominate teachers as per CoE jurisdiction. It is not something a school or PrepGraph hosts.
The seven sub-themes a Lead School chooses from (2026-27)
- 1 Foundations of Computational Thinking (CT) and AI Readiness
- 2 From Play to Abstraction: Progressive Pedagogy for Computational Thinking
- 3 Mathematics as the Cornerstone of Computational Thinking and AI readiness
- 4 Interdisciplinary Connections: CT across Subjects at Middle Stage
- 5 AI in Real-World Contexts
- 6 Assessment and Pedagogy in CT and AI
- 7 Ethics and Responsible use of AI
Hosting support
How PrepGraph supports a Lead School
The Lead School is the organiser throughout — topic, venue, experts, records. We help the Lead School with the work and keep the paperwork in order.
Before the day
6–8 weeks out
Choose the sub-theme and the topic
One of CBSE’s seven 2026-27 sub-themes, narrowed to a question teachers in the district actually face — e.g. “Assessment and pedagogy in CT & AI: finding learning gaps, not marks” or “Ethics and responsible use of AI in Classes 6–10”.
Invitations and the call for case papers
Through the Sahodaya complex or the group of willing schools: a one-page invitation, the case-paper call in Format F1, a submission date, and the guidelines’ target of around 40 participants so the day stays a deliberation. In practice that is ten to twenty nearby schools, each sending its principal or coordinator and two or three teachers — enough delegations for a real district conversation, few enough to keep the day a deliberation.
The Lead School checklist
A step-by-step hosting checklist aligned to CBSE’s 2026 DLD guidelines — what to decide, who to invite, what to print, what to keep.
Open the checklistF1 coaching clinics for presenting teachers
Two 60-minute online clinics: the fourteen F1 sections with a worked example; writing the evidence-based impact section from real classroom data; a timed 25-minute rehearsal (20 + 5 of questions) with feedback.
Forming the Appreciation Committee
CBSE’s guidelines ask for one external CT/AI educator (expert) from a college or university, plus two principals or teachers with CT/AI experience who are not presenting at the DLD. We help the Lead School find the academic member locally. PrepGraph staff are better placed as expert speakers than as the external committee member — and we say so.
Venue and logistics
A hall for about 40, a projector, a timer, printed F4 sheets for the committee, attendance sheets, a photographer. Small things that decide whether the day runs to time.
On the day
One day, offline
An expert-led session on the chosen sub-theme
A 45-minute session by a PrepGraph educator — or another expert the Lead School invites — drawn from Modules 1–6 of the teacher programme and matched to the chosen sub-theme (most often Module 6 for assessment and pedagogy, Module 2 for ethics): what AI is and is not, finding learning gaps in a real chapter, the teacher-decides principle. Platform-agnostic. No product demonstration inside the counted hours.
Moderation support
Help the Lead School’s moderator keep the 25-minute case-paper slots to time, a runner between presenters and the committee, and a quiet word when a session is drifting.
Record-keeping
Help the Lead School’s recorder collate the attendance register (signed at registration and after lunch), the committee’s score sheets and the photographs — the school’s records, held by the school throughout.
After
Within two weeks
Event report support
We help the Lead School compile the report the guidelines ask for: programme, participants, papers presented, committee outcomes, photographs. The school submits and keeps it.
Sharing takeaways
A two-page takeaway note for participating schools — the practices presented, what the committee appreciated, one thing to try next term — drafted for the Lead School to send under its own name.
From case paper to capstone, and back
Because the Module 10 capstone is structurally identical to Format F1, a presenting teacher’s paper can become a programme capstone, and a certified teacher’s capstone can be next year’s case paper.
The teacher programmeA leadership session for the principals who came
Afterwards — never on the day — the Lead School can host the three-hour “Leading an AI-Enabled School” session for the principals and coordinators whose schools presented or attended. It is an invitation from the Lead School to its own complex, it is optional, and nobody is signed up for anything by attending. The same rule as the demonstration applies: no selling inside a day the school records as CPD.
The leadership workshop
A sample day
One-day run-of-show, arranged around 25-minute case papers
An example the Lead School adapts. Eight papers are shown here; the number depends on the submissions the call brings in (CBSE’s guidelines allow up to 16).
| Time | Item | Who |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 30 min | Registration, tea, attendance sheet signed | Lead School |
| 09:30 15 min | Opening: welcome, the 2026-27 theme and today’s sub-theme, how the day runs | Lead School principal / Sahodaya functionary |
| 09:45 45 min | Expert-led session on the chosen sub-theme | Invited expert (a PrepGraph educator, or another expert the school invites) |
| 10:30 75 min | Case papers, block 1 — three papers, 25 minutes each (20 + 5 of questions) | Presenting teachers · Appreciation Committee scores on Format F4 |
| 11:45 15 min | Tea | Lead School |
| 12:00 75 min | Case papers, block 2 — three papers | Presenting teachers · Appreciation Committee |
| 13:15 40 min | Lunch | Lead School |
| 13:55 50 min | Case papers, block 3 — two papers | Presenting teachers · Appreciation Committee |
| 14:45 20 min | Committee deliberation · participants in groups: “one thing I will try in my classroom this month” | Appreciation Committee · all participants |
| 15:05 25 min | Appreciation, takeaways, closing; attendance and report notes completed | Lead School · committee |
| 09:00–15:30 · about 6 h 30 min on site · the school decides what it records under its CPD guidelines. | ||
What presenting teachers prepare
Format F1 papers, appreciated with Format F4
The structures CBSE’s 2026 DLD guidelines set out. Our F1 coaching clinics work through them section by section; the Module 10 capstone uses the same skeleton.
Format F1 — the case paper
- 1 Presenter details
- 2 Title of the practice + corresponding sub-theme
- 3 Background / context — problem, target group, timeline
- 4 Objectives — learning outcomes targeted, CT & AI competencies focused
- 5 Methodology — pedagogical approach, role of teachers, role of students, curriculum integration
- 6 Description of the practice / implementation process
- 7 Evidence-based impact — student learning outcomes (data, assessment results), testimonials, engagement
- 8 Novelty and relevance
- 9 Inclusivity and equity
- 10 Scalability and replicability
- 11 Sustainability and cost effectiveness
- 12 Learnings and reflections
- 13 Conclusion
- 14 Optional add-ons (links, sample student work)
Format F4 — Appreciation Committee scoring
| Criterion | Marks |
|---|---|
| Demonstrated impact (data-driven, evidence-supported outcomes) | 30 |
| Novelty | 10 |
| Relevance (curriculum goals, real-world CT & AI issues) | 10 |
| Methodology (sound pedagogy, clear structure) | 10 |
| Inclusivity | 10 |
| Scalability | 10 |
| Replicability | 10 |
| Sustainability | 5 |
| Cost-effectiveness | 5 |
| Total | 100 |
Demonstrated, evidence-supported impact carries the most weight — which is why the coaching clinics spend most of their time on the evidence section of F1.
Separate · optional · outside the counted programme
The optional PrepGraph demonstration
“Here is how the concepts from today run with forty students tomorrow.”
Forty-five minutes, after the counted programme closes or on another day, for teachers and principals who choose to stay. The same chapter the expert session used — Class 9 Science, Motion — taken through teach, a ten-question diagnostic, who did not understand, which concept, named practice carried home by the student’s AI tutor, and a reassessment. Teachers who attend can ask anything; nobody is signed up for anything.
- •Not part of the DLD programme and not part of the 6 hours the school records.
- •Opt-in, announced as optional in the invitation and again at closing.
- •Held after the closing session or on a separate day, in a separate room if the committee is still deliberating.
- •No CBSE wording, no logo, no suggestion that the demonstration is CBSE content.
- •The student AI tutor shown is part of the student’s AI plan; in the institutional programme, practicum classes are provisioned with it by the school or pilot.
What the school keeps
The Lead School maintains the records
Schools update training records on the OASIS portal and keep records for verification; only 11 hours of Domain-III developmental tasks are considered. We hand everything over on the day; nothing sits only with us.
Attendance records
Signed at registration and after lunch; the basis for any CPD hours the participating schools record.
The event report
Programme, participants, papers, committee outcomes, photographs — compiled with our help, submitted and kept by the school.
Case papers and committee scores
Copies of every Format F1 paper and the Appreciation Committee’s Format F4 sheets.
Photographs and the takeaway note
For the school’s records and for the participating schools.
Who this is for
The people who make a district day happen
Sahodaya functionaries
Planning the complex’s CT & AI activity for the year and looking for a Lead School and a working format.
Principals of willing Lead Schools
Ready to volunteer the school as host and wanting the work scoped before saying yes.
District training coordinators
Coordinating teacher development across schools and needing a day that produces case papers, not slides.
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.
Questions schools ask
Workshop FAQs
Does PrepGraph run the District Level Deliberation?
Do the hours count as CPD?
Is the PrepGraph demonstration part of the day?
Can a PrepGraph person sit on the Appreciation Committee?
What does this cost the Lead School?
More on CPD hours and the CBSE theme on the CBSE & CPD page; general questions in the FAQ.
Plan a district workshop
Tell us the district, the likely date and the schools involved. We’ll come back with a hosting plan for the Lead School, the F1 call and the clinic dates.