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North Attleboro lays out multi‑phase AI roadmap, with pilots and data safeguards
Summary
Curriculum coordinator Tali Clyde and technology director Kyle Kirschenbaum presented a multi‑phase AI roadmap: leadership readiness this year, a summer vision statement, fall pilots and teacher guidance, plus monitored chat access through Securly and a proposal for a district AI policy.
Curriculum coordinator Tali Clyde and Director of Technology Kyle Kirschenbaum presented the district's plan for integrating artificial intelligence in teaching and operations, describing a four‑phase roadmap that moves from leadership readiness to pilots and integration.
Clyde said district leaders completed Phase 1 (formation of a leadership committee and an AI alignment assessment) and plan to spend the summer writing a district vision statement and materials for a fall launch. "We formed a leadership committee... we did conduct an AI alignment assessment," Clyde said, adding the district aims to build literacy around learning risks, data security and operational readiness.
Kirschenbaum described current, limited technology use and safeguards. He said the district uses Securly as a web filter that includes a monitored chatbot and that the subscription prevents use of prompt text for LLM training: "Anything that's put into it isn't used to train the LLM," he said. He and Clyde proposed phased pilots (elementary, middle and high school teacher pilots) and a multi‑year plan for educator professional development and evaluation.
Committee members pressed on details. One member asked whether AI subscriptions were in use; Clyde and Kirschenbaum said Securly is available but not rolled out to students. Another member asked about elementary‑school use and pointed to recent private‑sector pauses; a committee member urged caution about students "offloading" cognitive work to tools. Concerns about FERPA and HIPAA and the need for teacher training and critical evaluation of AI outputs were raised.
Clyde said the district will consider a formal AI policy in the fall after leadership sets educational objectives and pilots return data for evaluation. The committee endorsed moving into Phase 2 work over the summer and requested continued updates on pilots and safeguards.
The presenters asked for the committee's endorsement and signaled the district will recommend materials and a potential formal AI policy for committee consideration in the fall.
