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Powhatan schools outline AI pilot and guidelines; board presses on critical‑thinking safeguards
Summary
Powhatan staff described a year of teacher pilots, district guidelines and planned parent outreach for generative AI while board members pressed for classroom safeguards and student critical‑thinking instruction.
Powhatan County Public Schools briefed the board on current and planned work around artificial intelligence, including teacher pilots, professional learning and student safeguards.
Dr. Michelle Markle, who presented the update, described AI broadly and said the district is piloting two teacher‑facing tools and has formed teacher groups to evaluate classroom applications. "AI is now," she said during the presentation, adding that the district’s work aims to "ride those waves skillfully, strategically, and always for students."
What the district has done: Dr. Markle said staff participated in a Virginia Association of School Superintendents (VASS) GenAI year‑long learning cohort and ran a local pilot of two classroom tools (DIFIT and Magic…
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