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Unionville-Chadds Ford SD to pilot AI tools with staff licenses, emphasizes data protections before student use
Summary
District staff said the CIT committee will pilot AI tools (including Google’s Gemini) with 50 staff licenses, emphasize teacher training and data security, and delay enabling student access until vetting is complete; the district will report back to the board throughout the year.
Unionville-Chadds Ford School District staff outlined a staged approach to artificial intelligence in classrooms, emphasizing staff training, data security and pilot testing before any student access.
Mister Webb told the committee that Google’s education product, Gemini, and similar tools are likely paths for the district and that the district has purchased 50 licenses for administrators and a select group of staff to begin exploration. "We have purchased in the district 50 licenses for admin team and and a select group of the AI group to start looking and exploring Gemini," Webb said.
Webb and other staff stressed the difference between public/free versions of AI tools and contained, premium education licenses that keep district data in-house. "We want to make sure that we're learning these as much as possible and doing so in a very safe and secure way," Mister Audubard said. Webb added the district will instruct staff not to place student-identifying information into free/public AI tools and will prioritize protected, premium options where PII can be controlled.
Board members asked whether staff or the district could track student or staff usage of Gemini; Webb said current portals show usage metrics and that road maps include increased monitoring capability. Staff said no decisions have been made to enable broad student access and that the committee will provide multiple updates to the board over the 2024–25 year as pilots and policy work continue.
