MyDD Academy · For teachers and school leaders, grades 6 through 8

Students who are actually good at AI. Not just students who know the rules.

Not open access with zero guidance. Not a ban. The curriculum that sits in between, ready to teach.

AI literacy for grades 6–8 in 12 hands-on sessions, every one a supervised lab in MyDD Chat. Unit 1: AI Foundations is available now for $35 per student per year.

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Grade range
Grades 4–12

Separate editions for grades 4–5, 6–8, and 9–12.

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Child safety
93.9%

KORA benchmark score. Independently tested, July 2026.

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Built for trust
COPPA compliant. DPA on request. No student emails. No data sold. Ever.

Stop guessing whether you're doing this right.

There's no real playbook for this yet. Just a false choice: open access with zero guidance, or a ban that only delays the problem.

What you're feeling

You're watching them skip the thinking.

Homework done in 30 seconds. Essays that aren't theirs. You're expected to fix it, and nobody handed you a plan.

What's missing

There's a policy. There's no curriculum.

Plenty of schools have rules about AI. Almost none have lessons that teach students what to actually do with it.

The false choice

Open access or a blanket ban.

One skips the guidance. The other skips the skill. Most schools are stuck picking between the two, and neither one teaches.

You're not failing at this. You were handed a policy instead of a plan, until now.
Jake, co-founder of MyDD.ai
"I teach data science at Villanova, and I see what happens when students show up having used AI for years without anyone teaching them how it actually works. Now you're the one who's supposed to teach it, and no one trained you for that. You shouldn't have to build it from scratch."
Jake, co-founder of MyDD.ai

Built to earn your respect, not just your click.

  • COPPA compliant by designYour school consents on behalf of parents; we provide the direct notice for your records and a DPA on request. Not a marketing line, a commitment.
  • KORA benchmark: 93.9%Independently tested against the leading child safety benchmark for AI products, July 2026.
  • Built by a safety professional who also teachesMyDD is built by Jake, a data scientist who spent his career in fraud prevention and identity verification, keeping people safe from bad actors online. He teaches data science at Villanova University.
  • In classrooms this fallRunning at Ss. Colman-John Neumann School, fall 2026.

And when you email MyDD, Jake answers. Every Founding School gets a direct line to the founder, a PD session for staff, and a letter home to parents, written for you.

How it works

Three steps from "I don't know how to teach this" to "we've got this."

1

Tell us your grade and class period.

A short call to confirm grades, periods, and a start date. Then an agreement and an invoice (purchase orders accepted). Some schools are live the next day.

2

Roster your students. Hand out the codes.

Upload a CSV. Every student gets a login code on a printable sheet; no student email addresses. Your staff PD session and the parent letter happen before the first lab.

3

Run twelve labs. Watch the dashboard.

Every session is a lab in MyDD Chat, taught from the slide deck and the student workbook. One a week fits a quarter or a trimester. The teacher dashboard shows every student and their chat summaries, with a real-time email alert when something needs your attention.

Want to see it first? Lesson 1 is free. It's the full session plan and the scope and sequence for all twelve.

Open access, no guidance

Students use AI to skip the thinking instead of learn through it. No plan, no limits, no teaching.

The MyDD curriculum

Twelve supervised labs that teach how AI actually works by using it on real work. Real lessons, real limits, real skill building. Not screen time in disguise.

A blanket ban

Feels safe today. Leaves your students guessing when everyone else is already fluent.

Let's address the fear directly.

  • "Do my teachers need to be AI experts?" No. The slides, the workbook, and the labs are built. A staff PD session is included. You teach it; you don't have to invent it.
  • "What happens to student data?" COPPA compliance isn't a marketing line, it is how MyDD.ai was built from the start. We hold a name, a grade, a login code, and the chat transcripts. No student emails. Deleted 60 days after June 30 unless you renew, or sooner if you ask. DPA on request.
  • "Will this eat the semester?" Twelve sessions of about one class period each. One a week fits a quarter or a trimester.
  • "What about devices?" Any Chromebook, iPad, or laptop with a browser. Nothing to install. Every session is on a device.
Included with your purchase

The curriculum runs inside the chatbot.

MyDD Chat is where every one of the twelve labs happens. It's where your students use what the sessions teach on real homework and real questions, the stuff they would otherwise take straight to ChatGPT.

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Built for their age, not yours.

A 6 to 17 dial. You set the grade. The same hard question gets a different answer for a sixth grader than a tenth grader.

It will not just hand over the answer.

It nudges thinking over copying, the same habit the labs teach, now on real assignments.

It will not pretend to be their friend.

It points them to a real person instead of playing therapist, and it is not built to keep them glued to the screen.

Built knowing you will read it.

Chat summaries in your dashboard and a real-time email alert when something needs attention. Visibility is part of how it is built, not something added on after the fact.

MyDD Chat is included for every student through June 30.

Every session is a lab, so the chatbot every student uses is the same one the curriculum is taught in.

Get started

Only need the chatbot? MyDD Chat for classrooms is $20 per student per year. Get started →

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What handled looks like

Picture the version of this where it's already handled.

A lesson you didn't have to build

The slides, the workbook, and the labs are done. You teach it.

A normal Tuesday

Your students are at their Chromebooks working through a lab, and you're not wondering if the AI is doing the thinking for them.

Tech forward, not tech fearful

You become the teacher who figured this out early, not the one still confiscating devices.

Six months in

From a teacher with an AI policy and no plan,
to a teacher whose students use AI to think.

Progress you can actually see

  • Every student and their chat summaries in one dashboard.
  • Real-time alerts, so nothing waits for Friday.
  • Early access, first cohort, direct emails from Jake as founder.

That's what Founding School means: the schools that join first shape what this becomes.

One less thing to carry alone

  • A PD session for your whole staff.
  • A letter home to parents, written for you.
  • When you email, Jake answers.

The pride part

  • Students who are actually capable with this technology.
  • A school with a real answer when parents ask what you're doing about AI.
Why now

AI literacy gaps don't announce themselves.

The risk

Without real instruction, your students guess their way through AI or get cut off from it. Either way, the school is answering parents with a policy instead of a plan.

The fix

Start Unit 1 with your grade 6 through 8 students this year, or get Lesson 1 free, right now.

Start today

Start Unit 1 this year. Built for grades 6 through 8.

Not ready to talk? Get Lesson 1 free and read a full session plan first. Every school starts there.

Unit 1: AI Foundations

Grades 6–8

12 lab sessions · MyDD Chat for every student through June 30 · Teacher dashboard with real-time alerts · Student workbooks and teacher slides · Staff PD session · Parent letter

$35 per student per year

No minimum. One class or the whole grade. A class of 25 is $875.

Invoiced on signed agreement. Purchase orders accepted, net 30. W-9 and quote on request. Card payment available. Schools consent on behalf of parents under COPPA; we provide a direct notice for your records and a DPA on request. See our COPPA notice for schools.

Contact us to get started today

Jake replies within one business day.

Need something to send your principal? Download the one-pager.

Unit 1: AI Foundations (available now) · Unit 2: Creating and Learning with AI (in development) · Unit 3: AI and Society (in development). One unit per school year.

Ready when you are

Free Lesson 1. The full session plan and scope and sequence. No card, no catch.

Lesson 1 of Unit 1, classroom edition, with the scope and sequence for all twelve sessions.