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Highline School District holds AI work session; staff outline draft policies, ambassador training and pilots
Summary
District staff led a work session on generative artificial intelligence, proposing updates to two district policies, launching an AI ambassador program, prioritizing Microsoft Copilot for data protection, and piloting classroom tools with attention to equity, translation and teacher training.
Highline School District officials used a special work session to brief the school board on plans to govern and pilot generative artificial intelligence in classrooms and district operations.
District staff framed the discussion around two existing policies — Policy 2022 (acceptable use) and Policy 2026 (devices and electronic use) — and said both need revision to reflect generative AI tools. Holly Ferguson, chief policy instructor, told the board, “we don’t know what we don’t know,” and recommended keeping policy language flexible as the district experiments with tools.
The presentations emphasized three cross‑cutting goals for AI use: equity, ethics and bias mitigation. Tashawn, a district staff member leading the AI work, repeated a central message from the session: “context is king,” and demonstrated how prompt refinement changes AI outputs during a live Copilot document‑review demo. Staff recommended defaulting to Microsoft Copilot for operational uses because, they…
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