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Leominster schools detail SchoolAI rollout, stress teacher oversight and student privacy
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Digital learning administrator Stephanie Petito told the School Committee the district has piloted SchoolAI for middle and high schools, logged about 1,300 student interactions and plans an elementary rollout; staff emphasized teacher control, data protections and monitoring features.
Leominster Public Schools officials described an ongoing rollout of an AI learning platform and defended safeguards on student data and classroom use.
At the School Committee meeting, Stephanie Petito, Leominster’s digital learning administrator, said the district adopted the SchoolAI platform after teacher pilots and rolled it out to middle- and high-school staff between December and May. "In Leominster, we adopted, School AI after having some teachers pilot sort of these 2 programs," Petito said. She said the district plans an elementary rollout in May or June and is gathering formal and informal feedback from teachers and students.
Petito said the platform differs from public chat services because teachers can view and manage every conversation a student has with the tool. She described…
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