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.
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.
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 2026Built for the whole school, delivered with almost no extra IT load.
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.
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.
Why teaching AI well now gives a school's students a real edge. Every figure names its study, its sample and its date.
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 workersAI 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 essaysless 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 schoolsEvery 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
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.