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Board renews Common Sense Media, adopts Be Internet Awesome and hears plan for AI guidance
Summary
Board approved renewal of Common Sense Media (K–12) and adoption of Be Internet Awesome (K–6); staff outlined updated acceptable-use language, grade-level digital-citizenship maps and an AI guidance program for teachers and students.
Alyssa St. Hilaire and the district instructional-technology team asked the board to renew Common Sense Media for districtwide digital-citizenship instruction (K–12) and to adopt Be Internet Awesome (K–6). The instructional materials committee recommended the renewals after district librarians, technology teachers and middle-school staff mapped age-appropriate digital-citizenship and media-literacy standards across grade bands.
St. Hilaire told the board the district will update its computer-use agreement into a more comprehensive acceptable-use procedure that the district plans to collect annually with student PowerSchool sign-ins. She said staff will ask students to acknowledge acceptable-use expectations and that the district will add emerging-technology language (including AI) to policy 23-13 so the policy remains future-proofed for new tools.
Teachers who piloted Be Internet Awesome and Common Sense Media reported grade-appropriate content, family guides and classroom resources. St. Hilaire said Common Sense Media’s materials were last fully reviewed in 2012 and needed updating; the district already uses portions of both programs and will formalize adoption and communications to families.
On artificial intelligence, staff summarized an emerging-technology stance: use AI as a teaching and learning tool when appropriate, ensure human oversight, train teachers to design assignments and prompts that preserve academic integrity, and offer training so teachers can use AI ethically and productively. Staff said they have run training cohorts funded by a PNNL (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) grant and plan a district-wide Google site of resources and more training over the summer and next school year.
After discussion the board voted 5–0 to renew Common Sense Media and to adopt Be Internet Awesome for K–6. The board directed staff to implement the updated acceptable-use procedures and to continue developing AI guidance and training for staff and students.
