4Target 4.2
Quality pre-primary education
Every girl and boy gets foundational literacy, CPA numeracy and social-emotional development before primary school.
Empowering Africa’s earliest learners through AI-human driven civic pedagogy
Transforming early childhood education across African communities through the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG).
Driving Africa’s Human Capital Index through the UN 2030 Agenda
Our ACDEG preschool curriculum and AI-human digital campus directly advance four UN Sustainable Development Goal targets.
4Target 4.c
Upskilling rural teachers
More qualified preschool educators across Africa through 70/30 AI-human hybrid training.
4Target 4.7
Democracy & global citizenship
The ACDEG brought into the classroom to build peaceful, civic-minded communities from age three.
5Targets 5.5 & 5.b
Empowering women in rural ECE
Digital tools and AI assistants for female teachers in low-resource communities, raising local education leadership.
The 4-pillar ACDEG preschool curriculum
Four modules take children aged 3 to 6 from naming their feelings to running their own classroom election. Turn the cube or choose a module to see its units.
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Module 1 — My Feelings, My Friends (SEL)
Social-emotional learning: community, belonging, empathy and emotion regulation.
- Unit 1Community & belongingGreetings, rules, listening, sharing and celebration.
- Unit 2Managing big feelings & empathy for friendsMood-check routines, calm-down strategies and caring for a friend who is sad.
Module 2 — My Reading & Math Toolkit
Foundational literacy and numeracy: auditory skills, systematic synthetic phonics, CPA numeracy and logic.
- Unit 1Phonological awarenessRhyming, alliteration, syllables, onset and rime, phonemes.
- Unit 2Phonics A–Z & reading automaticitySound-letter correspondence through to fluent early reading.
- Unit 3NumeracyNumbers 1–20, ten-frames, patterns, non-standard measurement and geometry.
Our numeracy approach is grounded in the CPA concept
Every number idea moves through three stages: children handle real objects first, then pictures of them, and only then the written symbol.
ConcreteCount three seeds
PictorialDraw three dots
AbstractWrite the numeral
Module 3 — Cognitive & Creative Foundation
Science, fine arts, music and digital movement through play-based discovery.
- Unit 1Science detectivesSink or float, living and non-living things.
- Unit 2Visual arts & sculptingFree expression, colour and shaping with local materials.
- Unit 3MusicSteady beat, pitch and story dance.
- Unit 4Digital literacyStep-by-step algorithms and tech movements.
Module 4 — We Are One: AU Civic Principles
Democracy, rules, human rights, leadership and elections, told through African stories.
- Unit 1My voice matters & peace problem-solvingSpeaking up, listening and solving disagreements peacefully.
- Unit 2Constitutionalism & community leadersWhy we have rules and who helps lead our community.
- Unit 3Caring for shared resources & classroom electionsCampaigns and voting in the children’s own classroom.
Integrated daily & weekly thematic pedagogy
One civic and developmental theme runs from morning arrival to closing circle, and from Monday to Friday.
- MondayLearning names & greetings
- TuesdayUnderstanding our classroom rules
- WednesdayListening ears & good communication
- ThursdaySharing, taking turns & fair play
- FridayCelebrating our community
Morning circle
- Activity: welcome song and the “talking ball” name game.
- Objective: spoken-to-written name recognition, turn-taking and belonging.
Integrated learning centres
- Block station: collaborative building and house construction.
- Art station: free expression with name labelling.
- Sensory station: “Finding my name” in rice or sand bins using name stones.
Story time & snack
- Story: “The Kissing Hand” or “Chrysanthemum”, about first-day feelings.
- Discussion: validating emotions and welcoming peers.
Free play & closing circle
- Teacher-guided social observation and review song.
- Tomorrow’s preview: moving on to “Classroom rules”.
AI-human driven teacher empowerment
The digital campus, the 70/30 hybrid teaching model and the pilot we are funding.
Democratising early childhood teacher training to transform Africa’s Human Capital Index, starting with women in rural communities.
The 70 / 30 hybrid teaching model
AI-driven workload
- A custom retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system trained directly on the 4-module ACDEG curriculum and our Zenodo research.
- Generates instant localised lesson adaptations, daily script guides, visual aids and phonics audio prompts.
Human-driven mentorship
- Master pedagogues oversee classroom management, emotional connection and contextual feedback.
- Bi-weekly peer-learning circles and classroom visits.
See the AI mentor at work
Choose a teacher request to see how the system turns it into a ready-to-teach lesson.
RAG workflow preview
Rural teacher input
ACDEG curriculum RAG system
Instant tailored lesson plan
/plan
A 40-minute play-based lesson plan with objectives, materials and step-by-step guidance.
/adapt
Rewrites a lesson for local materials: seeds, pebbles or bottle caps instead of plastic blocks.
/assess
Reviews a child’s progress and suggests reinforcement for struggling learners.
/civic-story
Culturally resonant stories and reflection questions tied to African Union values.
Why this matters for Africa
Overcomes teacher shortages in underserved and rural communities.
Equips female educators with low-bandwidth digital tools and professional credentials benchmarked against UK EYFS and QTS/QTLS portfolios.
Builds foundational literacy, numeracy and governance awareness before primary school entry.
We are seeking seed funding and pilot partners
Help us test this AI-human driven ECE pedagogy across 50 rural preschool centres.
$38,500
Minimum budget for the 12-month pilot and rollout
- Months 1–3Build the curriculum database and test the four commands
- Months 4–6Onboard the first teacher cohort; start mentorship circles
- Months 7–9Refine from usage data; expand to more school clusters
- Months 10–12Impact evaluation and certification pathway
Open-access ECE/ECD research hub
Evidence-based publications, early childhood development papers and ACDEG research archived on Zenodo.