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Teach for tomorrow.
Exchange strategies.
Shape AI with intention.

🕒 From October 14 - November 14, 2025:

You’ll engage in weekly peer to peer, guided sessions to learn from other educators in the field, share your AI insights, and gain access to AI Coaching & Office Hours with our team. The FREE badge is eligible for 5 clock hours*. Join or log in, then reserve your spot in the 🧠 column:

✅ Iterate on your AI use based on real-time insights. Leave with a before/after artifact that shows your growth.
✅ Deconstruct complex tasks to identify where AI can support the work. Create a task map showing when to use—and not use—AI.
✅ Design clear and responsible AI guidelines for you and your students. Build flexible, classroom-ready guidelines you can apply now.
✅ Model how to review and improve AI outputs with students. Produce a revised AI sample or lesson to use and share.

What you’ll learn with peers:

Why trust sideby?

We’re educators who’ve used AI in real classrooms, built programs from the ground up, and measure success by what works for both teachers and students. We’re AI nerds and critical thinkers, designing learning that’s practical, inclusive, and built for deeper student impact. Learn more about us.

Want to learn more?

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Can’t make it? Here are the slides from our taste test. It’s way better if you join and interact live like you would on sideby, but we get it if you can’t.

Limited Enrollment

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Sample certificate of engagement awarded for completing 5 hours of professional development focused on AI skills in modeling, guiding, revising, and deconstructing complex tasks in Fall 2025, featuring a side-by-side badge graphic with a circular AI-themed emblem and placeholders for recipient names and signatures.

✺ Frequently Asked Questions ✺

  • The AI Onward Badge is a free recognition for educators who complete this AI learning experience inside the sideby app. It shows you’ve built real AI fluency — not just attended a training.

  • Yes. In many states and professional contexts, structured participation in sideby — including earning the AI Onward Badge — may be eligible for continuing education or clock hours. Our badge pathways are designed with clear learning objectives, standards-aligned prompts, and documented engagement, making them strong candidates for PD credit.

    Policies vary by state and accrediting body, so we recommend checking with your district, state professional learning office, or clock hour authority to confirm eligibility and documentation needs. See the example certificate above. We can also provide further learning and curriculum details if that is required by your district or organization.

  • You’ll complete six sideby sessions where you discuss with a peer and share ideas in between each session. You’ll also have acces to OPTIONAL weekly Office Hours with our team and other community members.

    Do that between Oct 14 and Nov 14, 2025 — and the badge is yours.

  • Yes. This badge is 100% free for educators (to engage AND get the badge at the end). No credit card. No upsell.

  • Nope. Whether you’re curious or confident, the experience meets you where you are. You’ll build your badge through thoughtful prompts, not technical skills.

  • Roughly 5 hours total, spread across 4 weeks. The pace is flexible — and you’ll have optional Office Hours for extra support.

  • Our AI Onward Badge helps educators learn to use AI is an online, personalized, transformational learning experience designed to build educators’ AI competency and fortify their professional learning & innovation mindset.