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Committee keeps academic integrity policy and signals separate AI policy work with MIT support
Summary
The committee kept an academic integrity policy emphasizing principles rather than exhaustive rules and discussed how AI fits into integrity work. Staff said the district is working with Andrea Mangold and MIT on AI guidance and may develop a separate AI policy.
Council Rock School District policy committee members on May 5 reviewed the district’s academic integrity policy and discussed whether to explicitly mention artificial intelligence.
The existing academic integrity policy is framed as a philosophical statement about honesty rather than a detailed code of prohibited acts. Board members asked whether the policy should explicitly call out AI as a form of academic dishonesty; staff and board members said AI use sometimes constitutes substitution of others’ work but also can be an instructional tool.
District staff said the technology team and district leaders are actively developing guidance on AI. “Andrea Mangold... has reached out and we’re using MIT to help guide us,” District staff member (Mr. Spring) said, describing ongoing work to craft districtwide guidance on safe and pedagogically appropriate AI use. Staff said that, because AI applications and their risks vary (open versus closed systems, data privacy concerns), the district is likely to develop a separate, more detailed AI policy rather than fold detailed AI rules into the broad academic integrity statement.
Board members agreed to retain the academic integrity policy as a guiding statement and to continue developing dedicated AI guidance and possible separate policy language. No final AI policy was adopted at the May meeting.
