Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Ai Education topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Greenwich schools roll out SchoolAI and outline controls; board hears parents, teachers will be briefed
Summary
District officials described SchoolAI and other platforms being piloted, explained teacher controls and monitoring features, and said the district will communicate expectations to students and families under the district’s academic integrity framework.
At the Sept. 11 Greenwich Board of Education meeting, district staff described how the district is piloting SchoolAI and other AI tools, what controls teachers will have, and how use will be regulated under the district’s academic-integrity framework.
High-school and district leaders said the district received funding from the Greenwich Alliance to acquire SchoolAI and is testing at least one other platform. Staff said SchoolAI lets teachers provide controlled student access, capture the students’ full conversation streams for teacher review, flag off-topic use, and email teachers when misuse occurs. District presenters emphasized that SchoolAI can be configured so students cannot use the tool unless a teacher enables it for a given assignment or time period.
The board discussed how the policy will be communicated. Staff said they will inform parents about the platforms and that teachers will decide, on an assignment-by-assignment basis, whether to permit students to use AI. The district’s academic-integrity policy, staff said, explicitly says students should not use AI unless a teacher has allowed it. The district also plans a high-school committee to craft professional learning and share best practices for teacher use and supervision.
Board members and staff discussed classroom practice and grading. Presenters said teachers can upload rubrics and use SchoolAI to generate formative feedback based on those rubrics; staff cautioned that personal teacher feedback should remain central. IT and curriculum leads said they are also exploring lockdown browser options for in-class essays and that AP Classroom supports locked exams; no district-wide lockdown browser is yet in place.
Staff described the rollout as exploratory: IT and instructional leaders will evaluate classroom use, form a high-school committee, and provide ongoing professional learning. The board did not change policy at the meeting; staff asked the public and teachers to provide feedback as the district pilots the platforms.
