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Muskego-Norway board hears librarian-led AI demo, approves teacher-controlled policy language for handbook
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Librarians demonstrated an AI classroom tool and described district training; board was told AI will be teacher-controlled on district Chromebooks and handbook language will define three levels of permitted use (restricted, focused, permitted).
Emily DeMar, a librarian at Muskego High School, and librarian Jenny Mead told the Muskego-Norway School District board on April 13 that the district has shifted professional development this year to focus on practical, teacher-controlled uses of artificial intelligence in classrooms.
DeMar described the Future Ready Librarian framework the district is using to guide library services and to support teacher professional learning. She said staff held an optional prompting workshop before school began and then brought demonstrations to each building to show how teachers might use AI to save time while preserving instructional rigor. "We offered a prompting workshop to all staff on the PD days," DeMar said.
The librarians ran an in-meeting demonstration using an EduGems prompt and explained a three-tier approach that will appear in the district handbook this summer. Under the proposed language, AI access would be blocked by default on district Chromebooks and unblocked by a teacher for a class period when appropriate. "So restricted — you can't use AI; focused — teacher-defined uses; permitted — use when the project calls for it," DeMar said.
Board members asked about citation standards and detection tools. DeMar said the district is teaching MLA-style citation as the baseline for AI use and is working with building leadership teams to define where and when students may use AI. On detection, the presentation cautioned that commercial detectors can make an educated guess but are not perfectly accurate; staff framed those tools as conversation starters rather than definitive proof of misuse.
The board was told that teachers will include the prompts they used and that administrators can review prompt histories as part of instruction and integrity checks. The superintendent said handbook edits reflecting the district's focused approach to AI will be brought forward this summer for approval.
