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Syosset board hears results of 100-day AI pilot; teachers used Gemini to tailor instruction
Summary
Syosset educators presented results from 32 teacher-led AI pilots involving 94 teachers; pilots generated leveled decodable texts, differentiated groupings and instructional supports but administrators said student-facing deployments must wait for Ed Law 2-d data agreements.
The Syosset Central School District Board of Education heard a report on an accelerated, teacher-led artificial-intelligence pilot that produced practical classroom tools and raised clear guardrails for student use.
Doctor Rogers introduced the presentation, saying the district approved 32 AI pilot projects in January and issued adult-facing licenses for tools including Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Canva so educators could learn promising uses while the district addressed data-privacy constraints. "Ed Law 2-d compliant" safeguards, he said, are required before identifiable student data can be used in cloud-based AI services.
The pilots were organized and overseen by an AI steering committee that provided training in responsible use, data privacy and prompt literacy. "We began exploring generative AI tools using Microsoft Copilot and Google…
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