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Simsbury schools unveil 3-year AI plan emphasizing student AI literacy and teacher support
Summary
Simsbury Public Schools presented a three-year AI strategic plan to teach AI literacy across K–12, stressing ethical use, age-appropriate entry points, teacher professional development and regional collaboration with EdAdvance and the Farmington Valley AI Collaborative.
Simsbury Public Schools presented a three-year plan to introduce AI literacy across kindergarten through 12th grade, aiming to prepare students for college and careers while prioritizing ethics and teacher readiness.
Dave (district instructional-technology lead) told the board the work began with an adult-focused task force to ready staff before broad student-facing rollout. He said the strategy centers on five core AI skills—prompting, bias awareness, fact-checking, iteration and ethical evaluation—and uses an analogy of a "human–AI–human hamburger": students supply the context and critical thinking, AI performs tasks in the middle, and students perform human review before claiming work as their own.
The plan calls for…
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