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Kenton County superintendent calls AI a "co-pilot" as district adopts Magic School platform
Summary
In a KCSD podcast, Superintendent Dr. Webb said the district is rolling out Magic School AI to help teachers differentiate instruction and personalize learning; KCSD will monitor usage and assessment data to judge impact. Students and staff offered classroom examples.
Kenton County School District Superintendent Dr. Webb said the district is adopting the Magic School AI platform to help teachers personalize instruction and speed feedback, calling artificial intelligence "a co-pilot, not the pilot." The podcast episode also included senior spotlights and a listener Q&A.
Why it matters: KCSD has district goals that include being 100% transition-ready and reaching a 96.25% attendance rate; district leaders say targeted instruction supported by AI could help move those metrics. The superintendent said the district will pair AI usage metrics with common and formative assessment data to determine whether the technology improves outcomes.
On the podcast, Dr. Webb described Magic School as "created by educators for educators," a closed environment with about 80 bots and centralized tools such as rubric generators and task creators. "It's a closed environment and have over 80 specific bots {slash} resources for our teachers all in one place," he said, adding that the vendor's training and support were "phenomenal." He said the platform centralizes resources so teachers do not have to hunt for tools.
Dr. Webb emphasized that AI will not replace teachers. "I think AI is a co-pilot, not the pilot," he said, stressing the district's emphasis on teaching students to be "sophisticated editors" who check AI outputs for accuracy and safety. He noted the district's experience with classroom pilots: a social studies teacher described creating bots that let students "talk to George Washington, Benjamin Franklin" to explore the Constitutional Convention.
On evaluation, Dr. Webb said KCSD will not track individual students' identities through AI but will monitor types of usage, counts of students "authentically engaged," and standard assessment results on the district dashboard to judge impact. "We track usage data, not specifically about who's using it and who's not using it, but more about the types of usage," he said.
The episode closed with a listener Q&A in which elementary students asked about the superintendent's job and tenure; Dr. Webb said he has completed 18 1/2 years as a superintendent, nine years in Kenton County. The podcast credited multiple students and KCSD communications staff for the episode; no formal board action or vote on AI adoption was announced during the recording.
What's next: KCSD said it will continue monitoring dashboard indicators in coming months and report findings to stakeholders as usage and assessment data accumulate.
