What is the 24/7 Teach Instructional Design Bootcamp?
The 24/7 Teach Instructional Design Bootcamp is a career-change program for educators, trainers, and L&D professionals, with two tracks: Instructional Design (corporate L&D, EdTech, training) and Curriculum Development (K-12, higher ed, publishing). Superstars build a five-project portfolio using AI-augmented workflows, get live 1:1 mentorship on Elevate and Advanced. More than 200 graduates have been hired since 2020, at employers including Apple, Google, Heggerty and McGraw Hill. The Advanced tier carries a job-placement guarantee within 12 months or a full tuition refund.
Do I need a background in instructional design or curriculum development?
No. Most of our Superstars come from teaching, training, content, or program management. The bootcamp is built for career-changers. We meet you where you are.
How do I choose between the ID and CD tracks?
You don't have to choose on day one. The first two months are shared foundations: adult and youth learning theory, AI fluency, assessment design, learning sciences. You pick your track at the end of Foundations, after you've seen what each direction actually looks like. Admissions can also help you choose on a call.
What tools and software will I learn?
Articulate Rise + Storyline (the corporate ID standard), Synthesia + HeyGen for AI video, ElevenLabs for voice, Figma for visual design, and the AI workflow stack: ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Design, and Lovable. Curriculum Developers also work in standards-alignment tools and unit-planning frameworks. Tool-agnostic mastery is the goal.
How does the Job Guarantee actually work?
Meet the completion standard: attend at least two live sessions each week, pass every assessment at 85% or higher, complete at least 95% of your assignments, publish three thought-leadership posts, and pass the final verification project, which you may attempt as many times as you need. There is one completion standard, and that list is it. Then run the search: each week, contact at least three specific people at prospective employers in your field (sending the outreach is what counts), with mentorship support (after month 3) through placement. If 12 months pass and you haven't received a qualifying job offer, we refund your tuition. Covers both tracks.
A job guarantee sounds too good to be true. Why offer one?
Healthy skepticism. Most job guarantees aren't backed by a mechanism. Ours rests on four things. We don't train to the job you're applying for, but to the standard of the role above it, so graduates are the standout in the stack rather than one more applicant in it. Weekly real client projects with coached reflection build the nuanced, speak-to-specifics experience that job posts use "years required" as a proxy for. Alumni feed their experiences back into the curriculum, cohort after cohort: the interview questions they were asked and the challenges they hit on the job. And every project is designed to become interview evidence: a specific story you can tell a hiring manager, not theory you can only claim. Your commitments are written plainly on day one, and the full terms are one click away. No fine-print games.
Is the portfolio enough to get hired?
It is the single biggest factor. The 5-project portfolio is built around real briefs from real partners: corporate SMEs for ID, district and publisher partners for CD. When you walk into an interview, you're showing real work, not exercises.
Do I actually get paid work during the bootcamp?
Only through the Earn-While-You-Learn program, which is Advanced-only and selective: partner briefs come in waves, and we match them to Superstars who are ready. Treat paid projects as something you can earn, not something you're owed. Separately, every tier includes an internship placement after your foundation months. The internship is unpaid, but it's real client experience that goes straight into your portfolio.
How long is the internship, and how does it work?
Every tier includes an internship. On Essentials, Elevate and the 10-month Advanced program it begins after your Foundations months, once you've built enough to do real work, and runs a minimum of one month at roughly 10 hours a week, starting after month four. On the 5-month Advanced program the internship is three months at 20 hours a week and starts after the two months of training. Either way you work inside an instructional design team, not on your own, with real projects and real stakeholders, so you get the collaboration, feedback, and team workflow hiring managers want to see, and the work goes straight into your portfolio. On Advanced the internship continues alongside coaching and placement support, so you finish with live team experience already underway, not a résumé gap. It's unpaid, and separate from the Earn-While-You-Learn program (which is paid, selective, and Advanced-only). The goal is the same as everything else here: you leave with real experience a hiring manager will respect, not an exercise.
How does the mentorship work?
Elevate includes 12 live 1:1 mentorship sessions and Advanced includes 40, scheduled around your week. After each project, you and your mentor score your work separately, then compare, so you know what to fix and why. Ask admissions who is mentoring your track right now.
Can I keep my day job?
Absolutely, on every pace but one. Essentials and Elevate are part-time (~6–7 hrs/week). The 10-month Advanced program runs the same 4 months of training at ~10–12 hrs/week, then coaching and placement support continue across the 10 months, built to fit around a working schedule. The 5-month Advanced program is 20 hours a week (two months of training, then a three-month internship), so it suits someone between roles or able to go part-time at work. Keeping your job through the placement search is fine too. Staying employed does not affect your Job Guarantee eligibility.
What's the refund policy?
Simple: your 14-day refund window opens the day your cohort starts, not the day you enroll. If you're unhappy for any reason inside it, email admissions@247teach.org and you get a full refund, less a $200 non-refundable registration fee, back to your original payment method, paid within 15 business days. If you paid over time with Klarna, the refund goes back to Klarna, which then cancels or adjusts your remaining payments. After the 14-day window, the outcome-based guarantee takes over: do the work, hit the written milestones, and if the promised outcome doesn't happen, your tuition is refunded under terms you receive in writing on day one. Read the full refund policy.