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Board hears plan for AI-assisted student data dashboards, staff emphasize privacy protections
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Filipiak and district staff presented plans for a tiered dashboard system that uses public state data for board-facing reports and internal, de-identified student data for school- and teacher-level tools; staff said live student data would be hosted in the district Google domain and would not be used to re-train external AI models.
Superintendent Dr. Filipiak and district staff presented a multi-level plan May 19 to give the Lisle CUSD 202 board and schools new data tools that combine state and local assessment information with AI-assisted reporting.
Dr. Filipiak said the board-level dashboard will rely on publicly available Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) datasets to provide quick comparisons between Lisle CUSD 202, DuPage County and the state. "This is actual real data," he said, describing visuals that show the district in comparison to county and statewide results and explaining the board-level focus is high-level benchmarking and growth analysis.
Mr. Markey, district staff, described mock-ups of school leader and classroom views that would triangulate multiple sources — IAR, I-Ready, FastBridge, AP and local assessments — and allow natural-language queries so leaders and teachers can find tiered student information more easily. For classroom use, staff showed an in-house math "skill builder" designed to simulate IAR-style digital questions to familiarize students with the interface and to produce diagnostic detail for targeted interventions. Staff said the skill builder would be used sparingly (for example, once per unit).
Board members asked about student privacy and how AI would be used. Mr. Markey said the board-level displays use public ISBE data and that any application development using live student data will be hosted inside the district's Google Apps domain or on vendor platforms covered by district digital privacy agreements. "Absolutely nothing that's used with Gemini in our domain is used for training, or it's shared back to the model," he said, adding the district had consulted with a Google Cloud engineer.
Dr. Filipiak added that, when live student-level data are used for development or demonstration, the district will de-identify records by removing names and ID numbers and substituting fictitious identifiers. Staff said the district has contracted two interns to help build and maintain the dashboard and learning-application prototypes and expects to pilot tools in the fall after summer development.
The presentation did not include any new board policy; trustees were invited to provide feedback and board members who serve on the dashboard planning team were asked to meet with staff this summer.
