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Superintendent outlines three years of student gains and rolls out CHSD 155 AI Success Framework
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Wasinski presented three years of strategic-plan progress—improvements in GPA, freshman-on-track rates, extracurricular participation—and introduced a district AI Success Framework to teach AI literacy, to be rolled out to staff at opening day.
Superintendent Dr. Wasinski told the CHSD 155 board that the district has seen incremental academic gains across three consecutive years and introduced an "AI Success Framework" the district will roll out to staff.
Dr. Wasinski said the district has seen increased student GPAs and that 70.4% of students now have a 2.8 GPA or higher, noting that 70% of students improved their GPA since last summer and that freshman-on-track rates rose to 96.4%. "So since last summer, we've had 70% of our students that have improved their GPA... and overall percentage of 70.4% of our students that have a 2.8 GPA or higher," she said, tying the measures to college- and career-readiness benchmarks.
The superintendent also cited growth in extracurricular involvement — about 72% of students participate in at least one activity — and highlighted expansion of programs such as micro-internships and new sports offerings. She said cohort tracking shows sustained improvement among juniors and seniors who were followed since freshman year.
Dr. Wasinski introduced the district 155 AI Success Framework, developed with humanities leaders, instructional coaches and librarians and tied to the district's "portrait of a graduate." The framework lists five core components for AI literacy for students: citizenship (digital responsibility and privacy), critical thinking (questioning AI-generated information and source evaluation), communication (transparency about AI use), perseverance (using AI to deepen understanding without replacing effort), and empathy (recognizing bias and multiple perspectives). "It's the students' ability to understand, evaluate, and use AI tools responsibly, ethically, and effectively," she said.
Board members asked how the framework handles appropriate and inappropriate uses of AI (for example, having AI write student papers). Dr. Wasinski said the district has used a stoplight model in some English classes for two years to set boundaries and that next year staff will receive a staff-facing framework with guidance for assignments, plagiarism-check steps and transparency expectations.
The superintendent said the AI framework will be part of staff training at opening day and the district plans to measure its impact on student use of technology over time.
