Pre-launch
Sat 3 Oct 2026
10:00–13:00 WAT (09:00 UTC · 05:00 Montreal/New York)
Free, online — LinkedIn Live, YouTube, WhatsApp
An African-led global programme · World Teachers' Day 2026
Teachers Who Build
From a free community to verified, published and paid educator-builders — with real project experience for your students.
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Global Launch
Sat 28 Nov 2026
Online, EN/FR
Paid tiers open
Africa Showcase
8–9 Dec 2026
NPMTI Summit, Palais des Congrès, Yaoundé
Teacher-builder showcase
The 2026 theme
Sixty years of standing with teachers — and one more word
“Standing with teachers: 60 years of protecting the profession, advancing its status and shaping our futures” — UNESCO World Teachers' Day 2026
Sixty years after the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation on the Status of Teachers, we add one word: build.
more teachers needed worldwide by 2030 (~15M in sub-Saharan Africa)
Source: Teacher Task Forcechildren and youth out of school in 2024
Source: UNESCO GEM Reportof Africans under mobile coverage don't use mobile internet
Source: GSMA Mobile Economy Africa 2025Four tracks
Build capability that travels from classroom to market
AI-Ready Teaching
Plan, differentiate and give feedback with AI — on a phone; mapped to the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Teachers.
Digital Inclusion & Fluency
WhatsApp-first, low-data classrooms.
Project-Based Delivery
SEE → DECIDE → IMPROVE → ASSURE, plus project and agile exam preparation.
Educator Builders
Publish, price and sell on the Accelera 1000 Builders Hub.
For every level
A practical operating model for schools, colleges and campuses
Primary
Builders Foundations
Teacher-only AI for lesson preparation; class mini-projects; School Project Desk.
$600/school/year
150,000 XAF
Secondary
Builders Secondary
AI pedagogy and exam-class packs; Student PODs solve real briefs from local businesses.
$1,800/year
600,000 XAF
TVET
Builders Workshop
Workshop-to-market projects; Trade PODs do paid jobs via the T2X Project Delivery Marketplace.
$1,800/year
600,000 XAF
Tertiary
Campus PMO
A project office on campus; lecturers as Growth Operators; students deployed to client projects; campus-hosted Growth Hub.
$9,500 setup + $7,500/year
3,500,000 + 2,500,000 XAF
Teacher-training colleges
Builder-Ready
Builder skills from day one of training.
$4,500/year
1,500,000 XAF
From a real brief to verified evidence
- 1SMEs post real briefs
- 2Campus PMO scopes, assigns, assures
- 3PODs (3–5 students + a teacher, or 5–8 teachers) deliver
- 4CMP-Verified evidence in each Growth Passport
Accelera verifies capability and matches it to scoped assignments. It does not guarantee placement, income or employment, and deployed talent are not employees of the client organisation.
PODs meet at the Accelera 1000 Douala Growth Hub (from 30 Oct 2026, BLI Building, Akwa), the Virtual Growth Hub, and campus-hosted hubs from Q1 2027. Campus PMO pilots: January–March 2027.
Students who are minors participate only in supervised group work with parental consent. Primary pupils do not create AI accounts, and no cash prizes are paid to minors.
Saturday 3 October · WAT
Pre-launch programme
- Opening — EN/FR welcome; 60 years of the Recommendation
- Keynote — The Teacher as Builder
- Panel: AI in teaching and instructional delivery
- Live demo: an AI project lesson in 20 minutes, on a phone
- Panel: digital inclusion, low-data WhatsApp-first classrooms
- Builders showcase: five teachers, three minutes each
- Unveil: membership, Builders Hub, student project pilot
- The Builders Pledge
- Close
Membership ladder
Start free. Deepen when the work is ready.
Draft prices
- 01
Community
Free
WhatsApp + LinkedIn community, monthly live sessions, replays, AI Starter Kit
- 02
Builder (Acquire)
$9/month or $90/year
3,000 XAF/month or 30,000/year
Build Sprints, templates, sell 3 projects, creator keeps 70%
Opens 28 November - 03
Pro Practitioner (Deepen)
$29/month or $290/year
10,000 XAF/month or 100,000/year
Micro-credentials, mentors, supervise student PODs, creator keeps 80%
Opens 28 November - 04
Licensed Operator (Create)
$600/year + 20% revenue share
350,000 XAF/year
Create and operate an approved local pathway
Opens 28 November - 05
Founders Club (by application)
$1,000/year
600,000 XAF/year
A selective builder and programme-leadership circle
Opens 28 November - 06
Institution
from $600/year
from 150,000 XAF/year
An institutional route aligned to level and operating model
Opens 28 November
Founding offer: the first 1,000 members get Builder at 50% off for 12 months if they upgrade by 31 December 2026. Global prices in USD; Africa in XAF (planning rate 1 USD ≈ 575 XAF); CAD at Canadian checkout.
2027
Teachers Who Build Challenge 2027
- Entries open
- Entries close · International Day of Education
- Round 1 results
- Chapter demo days
- Student POD Showcase · World Youth Skills Day
- Annual Summit & Challenge Finals · hybrid from the Douala Growth Hub
Awards
- Teacher Builder of the Year — one per level
- Student POD Project of the Year — prize to the school/project
- Campus PMO of the Year
- Digital Inclusion Award
- Bilingual Bridge Award
Free to enter. Judged by an independent jury on verified evidence. Official rules in English and French published before entries open.
Founding community
Join the Founding 1,000 Educators — free
Register for the community and pre-launch joining link.
Partners
Help educators build — without buying their data
Member data is never sold. Partners receive aggregated insight only.
Title Partner
$25,000
10,000,000 XAF
One only; named in summit title, keynote slot, logo on every asset, aggregated insight report
Track Partner
$10,000
5,000,000 XAF
Up to four; own one track
Report Partner
$6,000
3,000,000 XAF
State of the African Teacher Builder 2026, released 28 Nov
Community Partner
$2,500
1,500,000 XAF
Logo, WhatsApp mention, employer project briefs
Start a partnership conversation
Support a teacher
Give through Power Up Futures Foundation, Inc. (PUFF-USA), a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit
- $60 sponsors one African teacher's Builder year
- $300 sponsors a primary School Project Desk for a year
- $1,000 sponsors a Student Project POD
Tax-deductible for US donors as allowed by law.
Donation page opening soon — contact usFAQ