Institute · for educators · free intake
Bring AI fluency to your classroom, school, or program.
Pillar’s AI Labs and Training programs deliver real, hands-on AI fluency to students, teachers, principals, civil servants, and workforce participants — in the languages your community actually uses.
The languages your community actually uses.
Spanish. Portuguese. French. Filipino. Tagalog. Indonesian. Swahili. English. Indigenous languages forming. We deliver AI fluency in the language your students and educators identify in, not just the language they consume content in.
AI fluency isn’t optional anymore. The students whose schools teach it now will define the next decade. The teachers whose districts equip them now will define how it’s taught. Pillar runs AI Labs (5-day mass activations) and Training (longer-form curriculum) in institutional cohorts across LATAM, francophone Africa, the Philippines, Indonesia, and beyond. The Classroom Signup form is how that work begins.
How it works.
1. You submit the form.
Tell us about your institution, your educator role, your cohort, and the languages you teach in. Free. Five-business-day SLA on response.
2. We reply within 5 business days.
Auto-responder confirms receipt within 5 minutes. Human response within 5 business days with a scoping conversation matched to your specific context.
3a. Funded inquiries fast-track.
If you have committed institutional or sponsor funding, the response includes a 30-minute scoping call within the 5-day window.
3b. Unfunded inquiries get sponsor matching.
If you want the program but need help finding funding, you enter Pillar’s sponsor-matching pipeline. We pair educator demand with corporate CSR, foundation, and family-office capital aligned to your region.
Tell us about your program.
The form collects the following (placeholder structure; live form being wired in Pass 4):
- Institution name + type (primary / secondary / university / vocational / NGO / government / corporate training / homeschool cooperative / other)
- Country / region / city
- Your name + role/title + contact email + phone (optional)
- Languages you teach in (multi-select from the 9-language axis)
- Cohort size (1-25 / 26-100 / 101-500 / 500+)
- Audience type (students / teachers / principals / civil servants / workforce / mixed)
- Program interest (AI Labs 5-day activation / Training longer-form / Not sure — scoping requested)
- Timeline (this quarter / this year / exploring)
- Funding status (already funded / need help finding funding / exploring)
- Free-text description of your program, students, what success looks like
The form is free. There is no fee at any stage of the Classroom Signup flow. Funded and unfunded inquiries both route through the partnerships team within 5 business days.
One intake form. Every education-side conversation.
The Classroom Signup form is the single intake point for all of Pillar’s education-side outreach. Directores LATAM. IPAE-style pilots. Principal training campaigns. Teacher fluency programs. Conference-driven outbound. Every channel routes to this form. This produces a unified pipeline view, consistent data structure across inquiries, and operational simplicity.
Classroom Signup FAQ.
Is the Classroom Signup form really free?
Yes. Unlike Discovery (which has a $250 commitment fee), Classroom Signup has no fee at any stage. Institutional education partnerships are upstream of revenue (sponsor-funded, beneficiary-owned per the AI Labs and Training operating model) rather than downstream of a buyer transaction. Charging educators to raise their hand would be exactly the wrong move; the entire point is to make the path as low-friction as possible.
What if I don’t have funding yet?
Submit anyway. Mark ‘need help finding funding’ on the form. Pillar runs a sponsor-matching pipeline that pairs educator-side demand with sponsor-side capital — corporate CSR, foundations, family offices, multilaterals aligned to your region and practice area. The response includes a brief explanation of the sponsor-search process and next steps.
What languages can the program run in?
Spanish at full scale, English at full scale, French at near-full scale (the launch trio). Filipino/Tagalog, Swahili, and Portuguese with active capacity. Indonesian and Javanese are forming. Indigenous languages depend on the specific partnership (see Indigenous Reclamation open proposal at /institute/indigenous-reclamation).
How long is the AI Labs program?
5 days. The mass-activation format. High-velocity exposure to AI tools, hands-on builds, capability assessment, cohort outputs that travel home with participants. See /institute/ai-labs for the full program description.
How long is the Training program?
Longer-form, typically 6-12 weeks depending on cohort and curriculum depth. Designed for institutional cohorts where deeper fluency is required — teachers becoming trainer-of-trainers, civil servants integrating AI into government workflows, university faculty preparing curriculum. See /institute/training for the full program description.
Who runs the programs day-to-day?
Pillar’s institute team plus regional partners contracted for the specific practice area. For LATAM cohorts, regional educators with Stanford LATAM initiative involvement. For francophone Africa, contracted African educators. For Philippines and Indonesia, in-region partnerships matched to the program. The Pillar institute team handles curriculum and infrastructure; regional partners handle delivery.
Can our institution add Pillar to a grant proposal we’re writing?
Yes — that’s exactly the kind of inquiry the form is built for. Mark ‘exploring options’ or ‘need help finding funding’ on the form, describe the grant context in the free-text field, and the response includes a partnership memo you can include in your proposal.