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SILICON VALLEY FUTURES INSTITUTE · INSTITUTIONAL CERTIFICATE
CEDAI — Scholar AI Governance
Certificate in Digital Education and AI
An institutional certificate program that gives educational leaders the vision, skills and ethical knowledge to define, develop and implement comprehensive School AI Governance and policy across the whole institution.
Governance first, tools second
CEDAI (Certificate in Digital Education and AI) is an institutional certificate program that equips educational leaders with the necessary vision, skills and ethical knowledge to define, develop and implement comprehensive School AI Governance and policy at an institutional level.
It is designed to equip educators and administrators at every level — from preschool to postgraduate — with the practical skills to effectively integrate AI into their teaching and management practices, with ethics and best practices at the centre.
What the certificate builds
Three capabilities, developed together — because a policy without practice is paper, and practice without principles is risk.
Vision
Read the AI landscape in education, anticipate where it is heading, and decide where your institution should stand.
Skills
Practical, classroom- and office-ready ability to use AI tools with judgment in teaching, assessment and administration.
Ethical knowledge
The principles, safeguards and accountability structures that make institutional AI use defensible to families, staff and regulators.
Designed for every level of the institution
From preschool to postgraduate, CEDAI meets educators and administrators where they work — and gives leadership teams a shared language for AI decisions.
Preschool & primary
Age-appropriate, screen-conscious approaches and the safeguards young learners require.
Secondary & high school
Academic integrity, assessment design and responsible student use of AI.
Higher education
Faculty enablement, curriculum integration and institutional policy at scale.
Leadership & administration
Directors, principals, academic coordinators, IT and compliance officers.
WHY IT MATTERS
Governance protects the classroom first
AI governance is often pitched as damage control. That gets the order wrong. Its first job is to protect the students in the room and the knowledge the institution exists to pass on. Reputation is what follows when those two are handled well — and it is worth protecting, because an institution’s name takes years to rebuild.
Students
Their data, their attention and their development come first. Clear rules on what may be used, by whom and at what age keep AI in service of the learner rather than the vendor.
Knowledge
Academic integrity, source discipline and honest assessment. Governance defends what a grade, a credential and a diploma actually mean when generated text is one click away.
Your institution
A written policy, a named owner for every decision and a documented approval trail. When someone asks who approved this, there is an answer — and the institution’s name is protected as a result.
A strategic investment, not a compliance cost
Institutions that write their AI policy early stop re-arguing the same decisions in every department, and start spending against criteria instead of enthusiasm. The framework pays back long before anything goes wrong.
- Decisions made once. A shared framework ends department-by-department improvisation — and the meetings it generates.
- Spending with criteria. Tools are evaluated, approved and retired against a standard, not adopted because someone liked a demo.
- Faculty who move faster. Teachers adopt AI confidently when the boundaries are clear, so training investment actually lands.
- Trust that compounds. Families, boards, accreditors and partners read a governed institution as a serious one — that is where the reputational return comes from.
THE METHODOLOGY
The SPARK Framework
CEDAI goes beyond basic tool adoption by integrating the SPARK Framework — a methodology for creating dynamic, meaningful learning experiences. It is built to ignite curiosity, create moments of inspiration, and prepare students for 21st-century challenges by combining critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and digital competency.
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Spark — ignite curiosity
Open with a question worth chasing. Curiosity is the entry point of the lesson, not its reward.
P
Probe — think critically
Interrogate sources, assumptions and AI outputs. Critical thinking becomes a working habit, not a unit.
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Apply — create with the tools
Build something real. Creativity expressed as production rather than consumption of AI output.
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Reflect — examine the process
Look back at how the work was made and at its ethics. Judgment developed deliberately, in the open.
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Kindle — carry it forward
Share, teach and extend the work. Collaboration that moves learning beyond a single classroom.
What you leave with
CEDAI is a working programme. Participants build the documents their institution actually needs, not a folder of theory.
- A drafted institutional AI use policy, ready for board review
- A governance structure: roles, decision rights and escalation paths
- Clear criteria for evaluating, approving and retiring AI tools
- Academic integrity guidelines written for the AI era
- SPARK-designed lessons your teachers can run next term
- A staff training and internal communication plan
- Data privacy and student-protection safeguards
- A twelve-month institutional AI roadmap
Program at a glance
Format
Live cohort sessions with applied institutional work between modules. [Format and schedule to be confirmed]
Duration
[Duration to be confirmed]
Languages
Delivered in English and Spanish.
Credential
A verifiable digital credential issued through VeriCert on the Open Badges 3.0 standard.
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