Professional Development · CART-001

Certified AI-Ready Teacher

Use AI to plan, teach and assess with confidence, protect your learners, and lead your school's approach to AI. Built for Kenyan classrooms: large classes, shared devices, the CBE.

Confident. Practical. Responsible. AI-ready.

Join free and start Module 1See the five modules
5 modules, 15 sessions, 20 notional CPD hours, and 80% to clear a check, with unlimited attempts.

NextGen Learners Hub is GMIND Academy's affiliate for CART in Kenya. Inspired by GMIND Academy's Certified AI-Ready Teacher programme, led by Dr. Success Ojo.

How it works

Five modules, fifteen sessions
AI Fundamentals, AI Tools and AI-Powered Teaching, Safety and Guardrails, Prompt and Context Engineering, and AI Policy for Schools.
Step by step, at your pace
Each step opens after a short reading time, so you move on when you have taken it in, not before.
Staffroom Labs, reviewed by a person
Make something real for your classroom and share it. The facilitator reviews every lab, and every lab has a low-tech version.
Readiness Checks, not exams
80% to clear, no limit on attempts. Nex, your AI assistant, helps you reason through a missed question without giving you the answer.
A certificate you can show
Modules completed and notional CPD hours, with a reference number a head teacher can verify. With Premium, GMIND Academy's CART certificate too.

The five modules

Begin with the Welcome, then work through each module in order.

Module 1 · 3 sessions · 4 CPD hoursAI Fundamentals for EducatorsFree
  1. Session 1.1 · about 40 min
    What AI Is, and What It Is Not
    • Explain what artificial intelligence is, in plain terms
    • Distinguish AI from ordinary automation
    • Recognise AI that was already in your life and school before chatbots
  2. Session 1.2 · about 45 min
    How AI Works: Models and Their Basics
    • Describe how machine learning learns from data
    • Explain what NLP, computer vision and generative AI do
    • Explain what a large language model is and how it produces a response
  3. Session 1.3 · about 45 min
    AI in Your School: Value, Limits and Checking
    • Identify where AI can add value across teaching, assessment, administration and learner support
    • Recognise hallucination and bias
    • Apply a professional checklist before using AI-generated content
Module 2 · 3 sessions · 4 CPD hoursAI Tools and AI-Powered TeachingPass
  1. Session 2.1 · about 40 min
    The AI Educator Workflow: Choosing the Right Tool
    • Use a repeatable five-step workflow for any AI task
    • Start from the teaching problem, not the tool
    • Choose tools by purpose, quality, privacy, access, cost and fit
  2. Session 2.2 · about 50 min
    AI-Powered Pedagogy: Planning, Differentiating, Engaging
    • Use AI across the teaching cycle before, during and after class
    • Give AI the full instructional context for lesson planning
    • Use AI to differentiate and to make learning active
  3. Session 2.3 · about 50 min
    AI for Assessment, Feedback and Presentation
    • Use AI to design diagnostic, formative and summative assessment
    • Draft feedback that answers where am I, where should I go, how do I get there
    • Create slides and diagrams with AI, and check them
Module 3 · 3 sessions · 4 CPD hoursAI Safety, Ethics and GuardrailsPass
  1. Session 3.1 · about 40 min
    The Safety Mindset: Guardrails and Risk
    • Explain why AI safety is part of teaching practice, not only an IT matter
    • Use the Five Questions before any AI task
    • Place an AI use on a low, higher or high risk tier and match the human control to it
  2. Session 3.2 · about 45 min
    Protect Before You Prompt: Data, Accuracy and Bias
    • Apply data minimisation before entering anything into an AI tool
    • Relate AI use to the Kenya Data Protection Act, 2019
    • Use the VERIFY check and question AI output for bias
  3. Session 3.3 · about 50 min
    Learners, Integrity, Oversight and When Things Go Wrong
    • Set clear red lines for learner use of AI
    • Reframe academic integrity from 'did they use AI?' to 'how was AI used?'
    • Keep humans in control, recognise when not to use AI, and respond to an AI incident
Module 4 · 3 sessions · 4 CPD hoursPrompt and Context EngineeringPass
  1. Session 4.1 · about 45 min
    Prompts and the ROLE, GOLD and TEACH Frameworks
    • Explain what a prompt is and what prompt engineering adds
    • Use the ROLE, GOLD and TEACH frameworks
    • Choose the right framework for a teaching task
  2. Session 4.2 · about 40 min
    Context Engineering: Giving AI What It Needs
    • Distinguish prompt from context
    • Supply context about learners, curriculum, content, environment, constraints and purpose
    • Use your own materials as context, and set the objective before the activity
  3. Session 4.3 · about 50 min
    Mastering the Interaction: Output, Refinement and Your Prompt Bank
    • Specify the format, length, level, tone and language of AI output
    • Treat the first response as a draft and refine it through iteration
    • Build a reusable, high-quality educator prompt
Module 5 · 3 sessions · 4 CPD hoursAI Policy and Responsible AI for SchoolsPass
  1. Session 5.1 · about 50 min
    Why Schools Need an AI Policy: Purpose, Scope and Use
    • Explain why a school needs an AI policy
    • Name the eight building blocks of a school AI policy
    • Draft the purpose, scope, acceptable use and prohibited use sections
  2. Session 5.2 · about 55 min
    Protecting People: Data, Oversight, Assessment and Risk
    • Write a data and privacy rule for your school
    • Define where a qualified human must review or decide
    • Write assessment, academic integrity, tool approval and risk rules
  3. Session 5.3 · about 60 min
    Roles, Implementation and Your Final CART Project
    • Assign roles and responsibilities for AI in your school
    • Plan implementation: training, approval, incidents, monitoring and review
    • Complete, test and present your school's draft AI policy

The certificate

When every session in every module is cleared, you receive a Certificate of Professional Completion listing the modules you completed and 20 notional CPD hours, with a reference such as CART-2026-0001 that a head teacher can check at nextgenlearnershub.co.ke/verify. It is professional development from NextGen Learners Hub, not a TSC, KICD or KNEC qualification.

What it costs

Start free. After Module 1, choose the NextGen course or go straight to Premium. Start with the NextGen course and upgrade to Premium at any time: you pay only the difference.

Module 1
Free
  • 3 sessions, 4 CPD hours
  • Readiness Checks and Staffroom Labs
  • Help from Nex as you learn
  • No payment details needed
Start Module 1 free
AI Fundamentals for Educators
AI in plain terms: what it is and what it is not, how models such as chatbots learn and answer, and where AI adds value in your school, with a checklist for catching hallucination and bias before you use what it produces.
The NextGen course · Modules 2 to 5
KES 1,000
KES 500 for members of partner teachers' networks
  • Modules 2 to 5, built for Kenyan classrooms and the CBE
  • Every Staffroom Lab reviewed, with feedback
  • The NextGen Learners Hub Certificate of Professional Completion, 20 notional CPD hours
One M-Pesa payment, 365 days of access. No per-module charges.
Premium · with GMIND Academy
KES 2,000
GMIND Academy's CART Lab, on the NextGen foundation
  • Everything in the NextGen course, with its certificate
  • Registration on GMIND Academy's Certified AI-Ready Teacher (CART) Lab, led by Dr. Success Ojo, through NextGen Learners Hub, GMIND's affiliate in Kenya
  • GMIND Academy's CART certificate, issued by GMIND Academy
The NextGen course is the foundation and the entry point to GMIND Academy's CART Lab: teachers who complete it arrive ready to thrive.
Already on the NextGen course? Upgrade from your progress panel and pay only the difference.

For schools. Schools and institutions can sponsor their teachers for Premium at KES 2,000 each. Contact us to set it up. WhatsApp +254 781 276 173 or info@nextgenlearnershub.co.ke.

Meet the Course Author
Tobias Obura
Tobias Obura
Founder and Academic Director, NextGen Learners Hub
GMIND Academy Ambassador

"I took the Certified AI-Ready Teacher training with GMIND Academy, led by Dr. Success Ojo, and it changed how I think about AI in my own classroom and in my school. The experience was too valuable to keep to myself. This programme is my way of sharing it with Kenyan colleagues, adapted to our classrooms, our curriculum and our realities."

Read more in the Welcome →

Acknowledgement

The core inspiration for this programme is the Certified AI-Ready Teacher (CART) programme of GMIND Academy, founded by Dr. Success Ojo, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of GMind AI. GMIND Academy's CART programme trains educators to use AI for teaching, learning, assessment and productivity while promoting responsible adoption, and has worked with the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) to extend that training to teachers across Nigeria.

Our Course Author, Tobias Obura, completed that training, and its structure of five modules shaped this course: AI Fundamentals for Educators; AI Tools and AI-Powered Teaching; AI Safety, Ethics and Guardrails; Prompt and Context Engineering; and AI Policy and Responsible AI for Schools. Several frameworks you will meet, including the ROLE, GOLD and TEACH prompting frameworks, the VERIFY check and the eight building blocks of a school AI policy, come from GMIND Academy's materials and are credited where they appear.

NextGen Learners Hub is GMIND Academy's affiliate for the CART programme in Kenya, and our Course Author is a GMIND Academy Ambassador. This course is the foundation and the entry point to GMIND Academy's CART Lab: teachers who choose Premium are registered on the Lab, where the grounding they build here prepares them to thrive.

The sessions, Kenyan examples, Readiness Checks and Staffroom Labs are NextGen Learners Hub's own adaptation. Any errors in them are ours. We are grateful to Dr. Ojo and the GMIND Academy team.