A private overview · for International Schools Partnership

Turn AI from a school risk into a network advantage, right across ISP.

Your students and staff already use AI every day. AIMing Up ensures they use it safely, consistently and in genuinely more useful ways. The suggestion here is to start with a pilot at Tara Pattana, prove it, then scale it across the ISP network.

See two lessons, exactly as a student sees them

Not a brochure. These are the real thing, unedited, the way they land in front of a class. The two are deliberately different, because a fifteen year old and an eighteen year old are not facing the same risk.

A word first, from Darryl's digital twin

Introduction · 1 min · delivered by the twin, and it says so

Sixty seconds on what you are about to see and why, in the same digital twin your students would meet. If it can hold a head of school for a minute, it can hold a class.

Catching Out AI

Student lesson · Years 8 to 10 · 2 min 31

At this age the risk is believing a confident answer, so the lesson teaches students to test one.

The Thinking You Cannot Outsource

Student lesson · Years 11 to 13 · 3 min 19

Repeating the lower secondary lesson here would insult them. At this age the risk is quietly outsourcing the thinking they are about to be examined and interviewed on.

After the lessons: what this means for your school

Closing word · 1 min · delivered by the twin

Why a digital twin makes a properly tailored programme affordable, and the choice your school gets over whose face and voice it carries.

Note the label in the corner. Every video on this page is delivered by an AI digital twin of Darryl, and they say so on screen throughout. We teach AI honesty to your students, so we practise it here.

The programme so far: Wave One, five lessons ready to run

These are finished lessons, not samples. Three for students, split by age so nobody is talked down to, and the first lesson of the teacher track. Each runs under three minutes, and the student lessons stop partway so the class does the exercise before the video goes on.

Lesson 1: Where Did That Come From

Student lesson · Years 8 to 10 · 2 min 22

AI invents sources that sound real: books, studies, websites. Students learn to ask where an answer came from and to check before they trust it.

Lesson 2: Declaring It

Student lesson · Years 11 to 13 · 2 min 54

Using AI is not the problem; hiding it is. The three part declaration students write at the bottom of their work, and why telling the truth about what they used is what keeps them safe.

Lesson 3: Setting Work the Machine Cannot Do for Them

Teacher track · Staff briefing · 2 min 29

Not detection software, not a new policy. Four ways to set a task that cannot be pasted into a chatbot, none of which takes long.

Lesson 4: It Sounds Sure Because It Always Sounds Sure

Student lesson · Years 8 to 10 · 2 min 49

AI writes true and false answers in the same calm, certain voice. Students feel the difference for themselves, so confidence stops being evidence.

Lesson 5: The Interview You Cannot Fake

Student lesson · Years 11 to 13 · 2 min 33

University tutors and employers have stopped being impressed by polished statements. They ask about the hardest part, and that question is a gift only if the work was yours.

Same voice, same face, every lesson. Every lesson opens by saying it is Darryl's digital twin standing in for him. Wave Two, lessons six to twelve, follows on the same basis.

For ISP leadership

Cambridge already has rules on AI. Most of your students do not know them.

Tara is an authorised Cambridge school, so these are not general good practice. They apply to your candidates now.

Cambridge International permits candidates to use 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. "AI should not be used in a capacity beyond those stated above." The Cambridge Handbook 2026 adds that misuse of AI in any examined work, outside of express permission from Cambridge, may constitute malpractice.

The clause almost nobody has noticed: intellectual property in Cambridge materials applies to AI use. A centre must obtain Cambridge's permission before staff or candidates put Cambridge materials into an AI tool. Past papers pasted into a chatbot to build a revision resource sit inside that rule.

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 in Thailand. Adopting it early is simply what a well prepared school in an international group does before a parent asks the question.

Sources: Cambridge International, AI in coursework · Cambridge Handbook 2026, Section V · Keeping Children Safe in Education

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, turning an AI worry into an AI advantage, school by school, then right across the network.

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.

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

The data that matters

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

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

of school leaders have an agreed AI strategy. 75% say they lack the expertise in house. ISP can be in the small group that does.

Browne Jacobson, 200+ leaders, Feb 2025

31%

less time spent on lesson planning in the only controlled trial to date, using AI plus a structured guide. The structure is what 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 is structured, guided and taught, and can harm it when it is not, with students offloading their thinking. A school does not choose whether its students use AI. It only chooses whether that use is guided.

Every figure above is checkable. Liang et al., Patterns (2023) · Browne Jacobson School Leaders Survey · EEF and NFER trial · Common Sense Media 2026 · 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.

Our continuity promise. If AIMing Up ever ceases trading, ISP keeps permanent use of every lesson, sheet and resource it has paid for. That goes into the agreement, not just onto this page. You are not betting your programme on one entity or person.

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.

Full detail, including what happens to anything typed into a form on this site, is on our privacy page. If ISP requires its own data processing agreement or supplier assessment completed, send it and we will complete it.

What the first term actually looks like

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

What we do

Weeks 1 to 2. A session with 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. Roughly two hours of staff time in total, designed 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 we agreed before we started.

What we need from you

One named person at Tara 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 lessons point at yours rather than ours.
Agreement on what success looks like, before we begin. We have no case study yet. Tara would be the first, which is exactly why the terms for going first are what they are. We would rather set the measure with you at the start than argue about it at the end.

What it costs, so you can take it upstairs

You are not the person who signs, so you need a number you can put in an email without having to ring us first.

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 annual and optional. No multi-year lock unless you ask for one.
White label included, not an extra. ISP branding on every lesson, worksheet and certificate, on your own address.

Going first

A network is priced as a network, 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 rest.
Founding terms will not be repeated. The first school or group 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, and at this stage we would rather have one outstanding first school than a good price.

Take the one-page summary with you

One page, written for whoever you have to show this to. What it is, what it costs, what the first term looks like, and what we do not yet have. No form, no email address, just download it.

Download the one-page summary (PDF)

"Why pay, when so much of this is free?"

A fair question, and one worth answering plainly rather than talking around.

What is genuinely free

The Department for Education's guidance, and its materials for schools in England.
OpenAI, Google and Microsoft all publish free courses for teachers.
The Chartered College of Teaching and UNESCO both publish frameworks at no cost.
We use several of these ourselves, we point schools at them, and we would rather you knew about them than not.

What is not free, and is the actual work

Sequencing. Free material arrives as a pile. Deciding what a Year 7 meets before a Year 9, and in what order, is the job.
Age tiering. One lesson does not serve an eleven year old and a sixth former. Ours are built separately for each band.
Safeguarding. Nobody's free course writes your policy, briefs your DSL, or answers your data protection lead.
Maintenance. Guidance published today is out of date within two terms. Quarterly updates are part of the fee, not an extra.
Somebody to ring. A free PDF does not answer the phone when a parent complains.

The controlled trial that found teachers saving over 30 per cent of lesson planning time did not give them a tool and wish them luck. It gave them a tool plus a structured guide. The structure produced the saving. That structure is precisely what the free material does not come with, and precisely what you are paying us for.

Why ISP moves first

One ready-made, safe programme that turns an AI risk into an advantage across your whole network, and positions ISP as the group that got AI right. Start with a pilot at Tara Pattana, prove it against measures you set, then scale it across the network on terms agreed once rather than school by school.

Let's talk: a Tara pilot, and a path across ISP

A short briefing will show your team exactly how it works, how it stays safe, and what a pilot looks like. Darryl would be pleased to present in person when the ISP IT team is next at Tara.

Arrange a conversation

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Darryl Winston Reeves · Creator of AI Mastery / AIMing Up
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