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Perkiomen Valley rolls out AI guidance for classrooms; staff training and family presentation planned
Summary
Instructional coach Mrs. Lanehart outlined work-group guidance on AI—covering academic integrity, classroom use, and targeted staff and family materials—saying tools like Google Gemini and Notebook LM are available under education licenses and a parent presentation is scheduled for Nov. 18.
Mrs. Lanehart, an instructional coach leading the district’s AI work group, told the committee that the district has drafted classroom guidance addressing academic integrity and ethical uses of artificial intelligence and has posted versions for staff and families on the district website.
The AI work group—composed of teachers and administrators—developed a position statement, usage guidance for assignments, and sample language teachers can include in syllabi to indicate permitted AI uses. Lanehart said the guidance is intended to preserve the human element of instruction while giving teachers ways to integrate AI purposefully for personalized learning.
She described classroom examples observed in middle and high school: teachers using AI for formative feedback and prompting students to critique and refine AI-generated feedback; physics students developing games to reinforce concepts; and staff leveraging generative-image tools in Padlet and Canva to support student writing. Lanehart said adoption is not uniform and many uses are experimental and teacher-directed.
Lanehart explained that the district has education licenses for Google (Gemini) and Microsoft (Copilot), which provide stronger data-privacy protections than public services. She said educational accounts typically notify users that data will not be used to train vendor models, and urged staff to favor licensed tools over public ChatGPT for student work.
The committee discussed parent education and developmentally appropriate use at elementary grades. Fuller and Lanehart said staff will continue training, develop lesson starters (e.g., extended homeroom activities) and the district will craft academic-integrity language and citation expectations for AI-produced content. Lanehart announced a virtual family presentation on November 18 focused on AI safety and appropriate classroom use.
