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Create, check,
connect.

for every language section of the European Schools
starting with mathematics and physics

By teachers, for teachers.

Mark Popenco · Mathematics & Physics · European School Alicante
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One question first

What is the one thing no school can buy more of?

Time.

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Who is talking to you

A teacher who has run school IT and data protection

Mark Popenco
Mark PopencoEuropean School Alicante
Mathematics & physics teachersince 2016 · European School Alicante since 2023
Careers counsellor, German sectionsince 2024 · European Baccalaureate rules · converting Bac grades for German universities
Head of digital strategy of a school2018–2023 · 1:1 iPads, school network, Moodle, teacher training
Data protection officer of a school2018–2023 · GDPR compliance for pupils and staff
M.A. School ManagementTU Kaiserslautern, 2022 · organisational development, quality management, school law
University certificate: Digital Education ProcessesTU Kaiserslautern, 2021 · digital school development, IT change management
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WhyHowWhat

39 schools, one syllabus: every teacher builds alone

13European Schools
28 931 pupils
26Accredited European Schools
17 083 pupils · 2 in accreditation
46 014pupils in total
2 614teachers in the 13 European Schools
full-time equivalent · 1 641 of them in secondary

Same objectives, rebuilt by every teacher, in every section: work that never reaches a pupil.

Sources: Office of the Secretary-General, Facts and figures 2025-2026 (2025-10-D-1; teachers: p. 20, full-time equivalent), and Accredited European Schools: 2025-2026 Data Report (2025-11-D-16). School year 2025/26.

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WhyHowWhat
Vision

Everything from one syllabus, for every language

Syllabusthe official curriculum document one learning objectiveword for word from the syllabus Learnlearning.ppnc.eupupils and parents, in their language Practiseworksheets + solution sheetson paper or on screen Assesstests + model solutionsA/B-tests, PREBAC, Bac proposals marks Graduatevtq → Viatique · kmk → Abiturbac → BAC calculatormarking, final grade, recognition create once · validated continuously · connect every section Deutsch English Français Español every language section · every European School today 4 languages · ready for all 24 official EU languages Organise staff timetable and supervisions vigilancias.ppnc.eu behind a staff password, no names online EU-Jump a game to learn about the EU game.ppnc.eu
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How it is built

Not a chat window: AI guided by a European Schools knowledge base

A chat (e.g. ChatGPT)This system
Sourcewhatever the model remembersthe official syllabus, objective word for word
Validationnone: errors reach the class304 validation rules today (about 100 in August), applied to every change, continuously
Resulta one-off text for one teachera shared library for every section and school
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WhyHowWhat
How it is built · learning science

Every design choice has a reason, and a source

Support that fadesWorked examples for beginners, fewer hints as pupils advance.Kalyuga, Ayres, Chandler & Sweller 2003
Mixed, spaced practiceShort sheets over time, mixed tasks instead of blocks.Rohrer & Taylor 2006 · Rohrer et al. 2020
Several representationsGraph, table and formula, linked on purpose.Ainsworth 2006
Fair tests, quick to markClear multiple choice, analytic marking schemes.Haladyna et al. 2002 · Jonsson & Svingby 2007

Each sheet names the reason for its design. Where research is thin, it says so.

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WhyHowWhat
Data protection and AI

Safe by design

Pupils' data

No accounts, no pupil names. Pupils just open the page; progress stays on their own device.

No third parties. No tracking, no analytics, everything from one server in Germany.

AI

The teacher decides. AI drafts, a teacher reviews and releases every page by hand.

No AI in pupils' tools. Plain web pages, no chatbot.

No personal data, nothing internal. Names, internal exam papers and pupils' work never reach an AI.

Open and European. Labelled “AI-assisted”; translations by the open-source EuroLLM, locally.

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WhyHowWhat
Pupils · live

Same page, four languages, one click

learning.ppnc.eu

12 courses · 178 learning pages · maths and physics, S4–S7

ENFRESDE

The explanation in the first language, one click away.

freeno loginno pupil dataany device
Live:learning.ppnc.eu ↗
S7 physics, magnetic field: the force on a moving charge in 3D
S7 physics · magnetic field · the force on a moving charge, in 3D
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WhyHowWhat
Efficiency

Estimated: three hours saved per teacher per week

hours saved per maths or physics teacher per week cautious≈ 1½ h central≈ 3 h high≈ 4½ h
Sheets with solution per week
by hand2–5
→
checked AI chain≈ 40
About ten times as many. Measured in weeks 38–40, 2026: 27 · 38 · 52 sheets. By hand: one teacher's practice.
≈ 100 hper teacher and school year
2.86 h × 36 school weeks
≈ 170 000 hper school year, across the 1 641 full-time secondary teaching posts of the 13 European Schools
extrapolation: same saving in every subject
≈ 100full-time teaching posts, every year, on work done again and again
170 000 h ÷ about 1 700 working hours per post
What three hours a week meanLess workload, less stressTime for individual supportTime for creative projectsTime to work with colleagues from other sectionsRoom for what falls off the agenda today

Anchors: planning 6.8 h/week (OECD TALIS 2018) · −31 % preparation time with AI alone (EEF trial 2024, 259 teachers). Assumptions (teacher practice): 40–50 % of preparation is materials; 4 tests × 3 further sections × 1–4 h; coordination between sections 0.25–1 h/week; 36 school weeks.

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Vision

Every pupil their own path to the same objectives

Paths for different learnersSeveral routes to one objective: more visual, more practice, more challenge, extra language support.
A suggested next stepThe page suggests what to do next from the pupil's own answers, worked out on the pupil's device, with no data on a server.
Practice that adaptsSelf-checks that give more of what is still hard, and less of what already sits.
Feedback that improves itPupils and teachers report from any page; each report becomes a fix and, where possible, a new check.

The foundation is there, and it already reaches beyond maths and physics: first pilots with colleagues in history and English. Next: a growing team, more subjects, a pilot year.

Pilots:learning.ppnc.eu/kollegen ↗
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Your turn

Try it yourself

learning.ppnc.eu

Learning paths in maths and physics, S4–S7, in four languages.

Pick a course, switch the language, try a learning path and its exercises.

Free, no login, no pupil data, on any device.

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What it is all for

More time for what matters most:

the pupils.

Mark Popenco · Mathematics & Physics · European School Alicante
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