Teach What You Know for Free

Teach Something Complex Until It Clicks

Elective. Teaching skills developed outside any paid or institutional role. Proof is learner outcomes from free instruction — not a classroom assignment.

Mentor Someone From Stuck to Moving

Elective. Mentoring relationships are voluntarily sustained — the mentee can leave at any time. Durability and mentee progress are the proof signals.

Free Education Delivered (Documented Community Impact)

Elective. Community education without institutional backing — free workshops, informal classes, online tutorials with real learner completions.

Teach What You Know

Elective. Build and run a course or tutorial series on something you know deeply. Proof is real learner completions — not a recording with no documented audience.

Tutor Students from Underserved Communities

Elective. Sustained tutoring for students who cannot afford private instruction. Hours logged, student progress, and a reflection on what you learned about teaching are the proof.

Create a Free Learning Curriculum

Elective. Design a complete free curriculum — syllabus, materials, and assessments — for a topic you can teach without institutional authority. Proof is the published curriculum with at least one cohort completion.

Make 10 Meaningful Open-Source Contributions

Elective. Contribute to a public open-source project with at least one merged pull request. The standard is code accepted by maintainers — not code submitted but rejected.

Free educator tools for structuring free curricula. Useful for understanding what mastery-based learning looks like at scale before designing your own curriculum.

Step-by-step guide to making your first open-source contribution with a merged PR. The simplest possible on-ramp to the open-source contribution milestone.

The teaching method that reveals gaps in your own understanding. You do not truly understand something until you can explain it simply — the foundation of effective knowledge transfer.