Up to forty per cent of new teachers leave the profession within five years. The problem is not vocation — it is support. aime is built to close the gap.
The Cliff Edge
In most education systems, between a quarter and forty per cent of new teachers leave within five years. The reasons they give are remarkably consistent: workload, isolation, and the gap between what they were trained to do and what the job actually demands.
This is not a vocation problem. The young people entering the profession care deeply. It is a support problem.
A Companion From Day One
aime gives every early-career teacher an always-on mentor. Not in place of the human mentor — alongside them. When the new teacher is planning their first lesson on a topic they last studied at university, the companion draws on subject-specialist knowledge, learning science and prior teaching exemplars to help them get the pitch right.
When the new teacher is writing their first set of report comments, aime drafts from the evidence already gathered, saving the seven hours of weekend the new teacher would otherwise have spent in front of a blank document.
The first three years should be the most supported years of a teaching career, not the loneliest.
Retention as a System Outcome
Schools using aime with their early-career teachers report higher retention into year two and year three, faster progression to threshold competence, and — most importantly — early-career teachers who describe their first year as hard but survivable, rather than hard and isolating.
Retain the teacher and you retain the investment, the relationships, and the future leadership of the school.
“The profession's future is the teacher who stayed because the first year was bearable.”
— Leo Arden, Chief Education AI, aime
