Safe, whole-school AI

Take AIM for a moonshot

Give every teacher time back, and every student a responsible AI edge.

AIMing Up is a safe, whole-school AI programme for international schools. Practical for teachers, age-appropriate for students, with safeguarding built in, and aligned to UNESCO's AI competency frameworks.

See two sample lessons

Real lessons, not a brochure

Watch what a student actually gets.

This is a complete lesson from the student track, Years 8 to 10, unedited. It covers AI generated images of real people and AI companions, both named in the September 2026 safeguarding update. A second sample lesson for Years 11 to 13 sits alongside it on the example page. Judge the teaching before anyone talks to you about scope or price.

When AI Fakes a Person. Synthetic images of real classmates, and chatbots that behave like friends. The lesson teaches students to recognise both, refuse both, and tell an adult. It is delivered by an AI digital twin, labelled as one on screen throughout, because we are teaching AI honesty.

See both sample lessons, the full topic list and the research →

For school leadership

Your exam board already has rules on AI. Most of your students do not know them.

Whichever board your students sit, the rules are already written, and they are far narrower than a fifteen year old assumes.

Cambridge International permits AI in coursework only to carry out initial research in preparation for a written study, and to quote briefly from AI generated text and critically discuss that quotation. Going beyond that risks malpractice.

The International Baccalaureate requires that any AI generated text, image or graph is credited in the body of the work and referenced in the bibliography, exactly as a quotation would be.

JCQ, covering the UK awarding bodies, is explicit that teachers judge authenticity, and that sanctions extend to disqualification.

The part schools get wrong: JCQ states that AI detection tools can form part of the evidence a teacher considers, but never proof on their own. Set that beside the false positive rate for students writing in a second language, and a school leaning on detection alone is exposed, not protected.

Separately, from 1 September 2026 England's updated safeguarding guidance treats AI generated imagery and AI chatbots as safeguarding matters in their own right. It does not bind a school outside England. Adopting it early is simply what a well prepared school does before a parent asks the question.

Sources: Cambridge International, AI in coursework · IB statement on AI in assessment · JCQ, AI Use in Assessments · Keeping Children Safe in Education

of school leaders have an agreed AI strategy. 75% say they do not have the expertise in house.

Browne Jacobson, 200+ leaders, Feb 2025

Your students and staff already use AI. Your policy probably hasn't caught up.

Across international schools, AI is already in daily use, but safeguarding, consistency and academic integrity haven't kept pace. That "governance gap" is now a leadership risk. AIMing Up closes it with one ready-made, safe programme, so a school turns an AI worry into an AI advantage.

86%

of children aged 9 to 17 already use AI. Only 35% understand that it cannot tell whether something is true.

Common Sense Media, 1,204 children, March 2026

One programme, two tracks

Built for the whole school, delivered with almost no extra IT load.

For teachers

Practical time-savers for lesson planning, marking and feedback, resources and differentiation, reports and parent communication, real hours handed back. Mapped to UNESCO's teacher framework.

For students

Age-tiered, safe and supervised AI literacy: understanding AI, using it responsibly and creatively, and thinking critically about it. Never "let AI do the work", always "learn with AI." Mapped to UNESCO's student framework.

Want to see it rather than read about it? Open the example page for a complete student lesson, the full topic list schools select from, and the research behind it with every source named.

Safety first: safeguarding · student-data privacy · academic integrity · age-appropriate use · UNESCO-aligned.

The data that matters

Why teaching AI well now gives a school's students a real edge. Every figure names its study, its sample and its date.

No.1

AI and big data sit at the top of the fastest growing skills in the world through 2030, ahead of cybersecurity and technological literacy.

WEF Future of Jobs 2025, 1,000+ employers, 14m workers

AI cheating detectors

61% : 5%

AI detection tools wrongly flag second language writers at 61%, against 5% for native speakers. In an international school that makes detection led policy unfair.

Liang et al., Patterns, 2023, 179 essays

31%

less time spent on lesson planning in the only controlled trial to date, using AI plus a structured guide. The structure saved the time, not the tool.

EEF and NFER trial, 259 teachers, 68 schools

The honest part: research is clear that AI helps learning when it's structured, guided and taught, and can harm it when it's unstructured, with students offloading their thinking. Schools don't choose whether their students use AI; they only choose whether it's guided. That is the whole case for a proper programme.

Every figure on this page names its study, its sample and its date, and links to the original. WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · Liang et al., Patterns (2023) · EEF and NFER trial · Common Sense Media 2026 · UNESCO student framework · UNESCO teacher framework · the full research page

Who is behind AIMing Up

AIMing Up is created by Darryl Winston Reeves and published under CatalystPro.Ai, which he owns outright.

He is co-founder, Chairman and a major shareholder of It's On Sale, the Australian AI driven ecommerce merchant network operated by EMS Services Pty Ltd, ABN 42 672 515 436. He is also an international keynote speaker, with a long standing public profile at darrylreeves.me.

You are not being asked to take any of this on trust. The lesson on the example page is the actual teaching, unedited, and every figure quoted anywhere on this site names its study, its sample size and its date.

Our safeguarding position, in plain terms

Nobody from AIMing Up has any contact with your students, ever. Every lesson is delivered by your own staff, in your school, on your systems.
We do not ask for, receive or hold any student data. No names, no work, no results.
There is nothing for a child to type into. The student lessons are pre-recorded video and printed sheets. No chatbot, no account, no login.
We never introduce an AI tool into your school. Where a lesson asks a student to use one, it is your chosen tool, under your supervision and your policy.

What the first term actually looks like

Schools buy plans, not products. This is the shape of a pilot, and it is deliberately small.

What we do

Weeks 1 to 2. A session with your leadership, and an audit of which AI tools your staff and students are already using. That list is always longer than anyone expects.
Weeks 3 to 6. The teacher track. About two hours of staff time in total, ordered so the first module hands back more time than the whole thing costs.
Term one. Two student lessons per year group, delivered by your own teachers, with the action sheets.
End of term. An honest review against the measures agreed before we started.

What we need from you

One named person who owns it. Not a committee.
About two hours of staff training time across the term.
A decision on which AI tool students may use, so the lessons point at yours rather than ours.
Agreement on what success looks like, before we begin. We would rather set the measure with you at the start than argue about it at the end.

Why we publish what we need from you: a supplier who implies there is no effort involved is a supplier who has not done it. You should be able to work out whether this is feasible for your staff before you spend an hour on a briefing, not after.

What it costs, before you spend an hour on a briefing

Schools budget a year ahead, so a price you cannot see is a price you cannot plan around. Here is the shape of it.

The basis

from US$5,000per school, per year. About US$8 per student.

All inclusive. Both tracks, teachers and students, with quarterly updates, the safeguarding materials and support.
Renewals are annual and optional. There is no multi-year lock unless you ask for one.
White label is included, not an extra. Your brand on every lesson, worksheet and certificate, on your own domain.
If AIMing Up ever ceases trading, your school keeps permanent use of everything it has paid for. That goes into the agreement, not just onto this page.

Groups, and going first

A group is priced as a group, not as a stack of single schools. Tell us how many and we will tell you where it lands.
Most groups start with a pilot in two or three schools before committing the network.
Founding schools get terms that will not be repeated. The first school or group in a region is proving the programme works, and is priced accordingly, in exchange for a case study and a reference.
Everything is negotiable in the room. Nothing here is a take it or leave it number.
If you would be our first, tell us. At this stage we would rather have one outstanding first school than a good price. Say so early and the conversation starts somewhere very different.

Why we publish this at all: most programmes make you sit through a presentation before anyone will name a figure. That wastes your time and ours. If the shape above does not fit your budget, you have lost two minutes instead of an afternoon, and we would rather you found out now.

Bring AIMing Up to your school

A short briefing shows leadership exactly how it works, how it stays safe, and what a pilot looks like. Founding-school partners get the best terms for moving early.

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