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ETHS instructional-technology team outlines AI training, privacy safeguards and a forthcoming playbook

Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education · January 12, 2026
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District instructional-technology staff described teacher professional development, partnerships (including a PlayLab grant) and student AI literacy work; staff said the district favors Google Gemini for students under district accounts because of privacy and compliance assurances and plans a staff/family one-page playbook by year-end.

District instructional-technology director David Chan introduced a three-part presentation on artificial intelligence in classrooms: the district's phased PD and teacher-coaching approach, experiments with classroom uses and a proposed "playbook" of classroom guidance for staff, students and families.

Chan said ETHS launched an AI Innovators group and ran summer and semester workshops to help roughly 40 teachers explore pedagogical uses of AI (assessment creation, differentiated instruction, rubrics and formative work). He described partnerships and pilots with an education-focused…

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