Custom Cultivation Program
Not more class hours —
a cultivation system built around one learner
AI Literacy · Future-Ready Path
A child-centered AI-literacy cultivation system spined by the growth archive: theory · math · practice · project, grounded in the 10-volume LIGHT HOPE AI-Education Series (m800). It cultivates what truly lasts in the AI age — thinking, learning, judgment, creation — not "using one tool." The China-US Bridge Program plugs in as an advanced track.
Step one is always the precision diagnostic
Fully credited toward the program. It turns "unmeasured" into "named". If it ends here, the data is still yours.
Four layers
Published, bilingual system texts; every chapter requires a self-explanation artifact
- ●Mindset for the AI Age45m
- ●Learning How to Learn45m
- ●Human & AI Futures: Judgment and Values45m
"One math problem → one AI project" five-segment cards + diagnostic-driven interleaving
- ●Roll Principle: Verifiable Mathematical Thinking60m
From knowing math to building agents: data literacy and engineering scaffolds
- ●AI Learner's Guide: AI as a Study Partner50m
- ●AI Tech Practice: Build Your Ideas60m
- ●No-AI Cross-Domain Check45m
Graded project pool → original capstone → versioned portfolio
- ●Youth Venture: From Idea to Artifact90m
- ●Semester Capstone → Portfolio v190m
- ●Advanced Track: China-US Bridge45m
The AI protocol — where we differ from most AI courses
- ▸Solve before tool: core math is hand-worked (no AI) and archived first; the AI-assisted version comes after — the diff is verifiable learning evidence
- ▸All formative assessments are no-AI (RCT evidence: unguarded AI tutoring erodes independent skill)
- ▸The first lesson is not a tool — it is how to ask AI without losing your skills
- ▸Every project ships with an AI-use declaration in the archive
What we measure, and how
- ▸Completed ≠ passed: passing requires a delayed retention check (2-4 weeks) plus a transfer item
- ▸Cross-domain formative assessment every 4-6 weeks; semester re-diagnostic with a versioned ability profile
- ▸The parent monthly report is human-verified: retention and profile deltas, not completion percentages
Weekly commitment
About 4.5-5.5 hours/week in term (hard cap 6), scheduled explicitly around school and your current program. Under pressure we cut new material first and protect review; exam weeks, this program yields.
Division of labor with your current program
| Advancing the curriculum | Your program | We do not duplicate |
| Integration (proof · cross-topic · multi-representation) | First casualty of large-group pacing | Our mainline |
| AI trajectory (math → algorithms → projects → portfolio) | Outside its structure | Our destination |
| Growth archive (ability profile · versioned work · verifiable record) | A report card | Our spine |
Choose your depth
- ✓All four layers unlocked (theory · math · practice · project), grounded in the m800 AI-education series
- ✓Weekly orchestration reviewed and signed by a learning designer (48h response)
- ✓Monthly 30-min 1:1 planning call (12/yr) + 2 human capstone reviews
- ✓Parent monthly report, human-verified: AI-literacy profile deltas & retention, not completion %
- ✓Assessment: no-AI cross-domain check every 4-6 weeks + semester re-diagnostic
- ✓Growth archive: points · badges · versioned portfolio (the child's work & evidence)
- ✓Optional China-US Bridge track (advanced direction)
- ✓Everything in Core
- ✓Weekly 60-min 1:1 mentorship ×40 + weekly async work review
- ✓8h capstone intensive + 4h portfolio curation
- ✓Includes China-US Bridge advanced track + Demo Day showcase
- ✓Capacity: ≤6 students per mentor
The mentor tier is application-only; submit interest and we schedule a conversation.
Not sure? Start with the Starter Blueprint: a plan plus 4 weeks actually executed, fully credited toward an annual tier within 90 days. ask your advisor
What you buy is what your child builds
Project-based learning is the core deliverable: at least one real project per semester, hatched into the versioned portfolio. The full catalog is public, maturity honestly labeled.
Browse every project →Commitments & terms
- ·30-day full refund, no questions (less the delivered blueprint portion)
- ·Mid-year exit: pro-rata refund of unstarted semesters
- ·Nothing included in a tier sits behind a points gate; points unlock honors only
- ·Lesson packages already purchased on the diagnostic line fully credit toward an upgrade within 90 days
- ·Need-based aid available (Access Scholarship, up to 75%); applying never affects participation, and credits stack on top of aid
The guardian account manages and pays; the student gets their own learning view and portfolio. Payments are hosted by Stripe and never touch this site.
Every pedagogical claim on this page is evidence-graded (mastery learning, deliberate practice, spaced retrieval, interleaving are all high-evidence); the portfolio's admissions value is a reasonable inference — we make no individual-outcome promises.
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