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Guiding Principles

Educational Goals and Accessibility

We use AI to help our students achieve their educational goals. AI will help us achieve our district goals, improving student learning, teacher effectiveness, and school operations. We aim to make AI resources universally accessible. We are committed to evaluating AI tools for biases and ethical concerns, ensuring they effectively serve our diverse educational community.

Policy Adherence and Privacy

We reaffirm adherence to existing policies and regulations. AI is one of many technologies used in our schools, and its use will align with existing laws to protect student privacy, ensure accessibility to those with disabilities, and protect against harmful content. We will not share personally identifiable information with consumer-based AI systems. We will thoroughly evaluate existing and future technologies and regularly address any gaps in compliance that might arise.

AI Literacy

We educate our staff and students about AI. Promoting AI literacy among students and staff is central to addressing the risks of AI use and teaches critical skills for our students' future endeavors. Students and staff will be given support to develop their AI literacy, which includes how to use AI, when to use it appropriately, and how it works, including foundational concepts of computer science and other disciplines. We will support teachers in adapting instruction in a context where some or all students can access generative AI tools.

Opportunities and Risks

We explore the opportunities of AI and address the risks. In continuing to guide our community, we will work to realize the benefits of AI in education, address risks associated with using AI, and evaluate if and when to use AI tools, paying particular attention to misinformation and bias.

Academic Integrity

We use AI to advance academic integrity. Honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility are expectations of students and teachers. Students should be truthful in giving credit to sources and tools and honest in presenting work that is genuinely their own for evaluation and feedback.

Agency and Decision-Making

We maintain student and teacher agency when using AI tools. AI tools can provide recommendations or enhance decision-making, but staff and students will serve as “critical consumers” of AI and lead any organizational and academic decisions and changes.

Continuous Evaluation

We commit to auditing, monitoring, and evaluating our district’s use of AI. Understanding that AI and technologies are evolving rapidly, we commit to regularly reviewing and updating our policies, procedures, and practices.