FOR K-12 DISTRICTS
AI professional development your teachers can actually use Monday morning.
Build4tomorrow runs custom 5-day summer intensives and Superintendent's Conference Day workshops that train your teachers to build with AI, not just learn about it. Aligned to NYSED guidance. Sized to fit your contractual PD line. References available on request.
THE PROBLEM
Every district is writing an AI policy. Almost none have given teachers the skills to live inside it.
Your district has guardrails. Maybe an AUP update. Probably a faculty memo. Possibly a board resolution. But the teachers responsible for executing the policy haven't built anything with AI themselves. Asking them to teach what they haven't done is how good policies fail in practice.
Meanwhile, the vendors selling AI PD show up with a slide deck, a one-day overview, and a contract. Teachers leave with a vocabulary list and no working tools. By October, the binder is on a shelf and the policy is theoretical.
Build4tomorrow trains your teachers the way the people actually using AI learned it: by building. By Friday afternoon of a 5-day intensive, every teacher in the room has shipped something real. That's what makes the policy stick.
WHAT WE DO
Three program formats. One pedagogy.
Every Build4tomorrow program is build-first. Teachers don't sit in a workshop watching slides. They ship a working artifact. We adapt format to your calendar and budget, not the other way around.
Summer Intensive
flagshipFive consecutive days. Twelve to twenty teachers. By Friday, every teacher walks out with a classroom-ready artifact (a unit, an assessment, a custom GPT, or a small classroom tool) and a draft scope and sequence aligned to NYSED guidance. Best for districts that want a deep cohort in July or August and a fall pilot ready to go.
Superintendent's Conference Day
Single-day workshop, 4 to 6 hours. Sized to your faculty (20 to 80 teachers in breakouts). Each teacher leaves with one concrete tool they built and a 30-day implementation plan. Best for districts that need to land a real PD experience inside an existing calendar day.
Curriculum Co-Design Sprint
Two- to three-day engagement with a small team of department leads or curriculum coordinators. We co-build a K-12 (or department-specific) AI scope and sequence with your team. Best for districts ready to commit to AI literacy as a board-level priority, not just an electives offering.
WHAT TEACHERS LEAVE WITH
By the end of the week, every teacher in the room has built something real.
A working classroom artifact
Not a worksheet about AI. An actual tool (a custom GPT for differentiated reading levels, an AI-assisted rubric, a unit on prompt literacy) that the teacher built themselves and can use on the first day of school.
A draft scope and sequence
Aligned to NYSED's AI guidance (and equivalent CT and NJ state guidance). Reviewed by your C&I lead before adoption. Yours to keep, modify, and extend.
A peer cohort
Twelve to twenty teachers who built alongside each other for a week. They'll text each other in October when something breaks. We've seen it happen in every cohort.
A documented portfolio
Loom walk-through, GitHub repo (optional, for districts that want it), and a short writeup. Useful for your board update, your teacher's professional growth file, and your district's NYSED reporting.
WHO IT'S FOR
Built for districts that are past the "should we use AI" question.
Districts with a 2025-26 AI policy or commitment
You've signaled to your community that AI matters. Now you need teachers who can deliver on that signal. Build4tomorrow operationalizes the policy.
Districts across the tri-state region
We work with public and independent districts across Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Fairfield County CT, and Bergen County NJ. References available on request from comparable peer districts.
Districts allocating Summer Curriculum Development funds
If you have a budget line for summer teacher-led curriculum writing (NY A2010, or equivalent CT Object 320 / NJ Function 200-320), our intensive fits inside it. Most engagements close inside Asst. Supt. signing authority.
Districts with active C&I leadership
We work best with Asst. Supts. and Directors of Curriculum who are willing to be in the room, not just sign the contract. Our strongest partnerships start with a real conversation, not an RFP.
Who it's not for: districts looking for a one-hour assembly. Districts looking for a vendor to "do AI to" their teachers. Districts that haven't decided whether AI is real yet. We're an active, build-first program. That's the design.
STANDARDS & PROCUREMENT
Designed for how districts actually buy.
Standards alignment
All curriculum aligns to NYSED AI guidance (NY), CSDE digital learning standards (CT), and NJ DOE guidance (NJ). ISTE Standards for Educators mapped on request. Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) framework references included.
Budget line fit
NY: fits inside A2010 Curriculum Development & Supervision, A2070.150 / .400 In-Service Training, or A2630 Computer-Assisted Instruction. CT: Object 320 (Professional & Technical Services), Function 2210. NJ: Function 200-320 or Function 223. Sized to fit Asst. Supt. discretionary authority in most districts.
PO-ready
1906 1908 Ventures LLC. EIN on request. W-9 and Certificate of Insurance available within 24 hours. New York State vendor file. Comfortable with district-standard 30/60/90 payment terms.
HOW IT WORKS
From first call to first cohort in six weeks.
We're sized to move at district speed without making you wait for a sales cycle.
Discovery call (20 min)
We learn what you're trying to do, what's already in place, and what budget line we're sitting inside. You learn whether we're the right fit. No deck.
Custom proposal (within 5 business days)
Tailored to your district's calendar, faculty size, existing AI policy, and budget. Three program options at three price points. PO-ready paperwork attached.
Pre-cohort design (2-3 weeks before delivery)
We meet with your C&I lead and 1-2 teacher representatives to customize content to your district. Not boilerplate.
Delivery and 30-day follow-up
We run the cohort. Then we check in 30 days later: what stuck, what didn't, what your teachers actually deployed in their classrooms. Reported back to you.
WHO'S BEHIND THIS
Built by a Westchester parent who builds AI for a living.
Build4tomorrow is led by Ben Shephard, a Briarcliff Manor-based AI builder and operator. Ben holds a Wharton MBA and a Lauder MA in Latin American Studies, has spent 15+ years building financial and technology infrastructure (Credit Suisse, Silicon Valley Bank, CIBC, IBM Cloud), and currently leads multiple AI ventures, including CreditOS (institutional credit analysis) and senior advisory work at Heka Cloud. He runs Build4tomorrow because he wants his own children, and yours, to learn AI from people who have actually shipped it.
READY TO TALK?
Most district conversations start with a 20-minute call. Yours can too.
We don't send decks before we talk. We don't quote prices in a cold email. We listen first, to what your district is trying to do this year, what's in place, and where Build4tomorrow can plausibly help. If it's a fit, you get a proposal within a week. If it's not, we'll tell you and recommend someone better. That's the whole process.
Or email Ben directly: ben@build4tomorrow.com · Build4tomorrow · 1906 1908 Ventures LLC · Briarcliff Manor, NY
REQUEST A PROPOSAL
Tell us what you're looking for.
Four fields. We reply within five business days with three program options at three price points.