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School board hears yearlong AI rollout: teacher training, guardrails and Securly monitoring
Summary
Ryan Goldberg, VBCPS director of instructional technology, told the school board the division trained 2,500+ teachers, nearly 17,000 high-school students used AI under guardrails and a new Securly chat-history monitoring feature will give teachers building-level visibility into student prompts and responses.
Ryan Goldberg, VBCPS director of instructional technology, told the school board the division has moved from pilot to systemwide implementation of classroom AI, emphasizing structured use, teacher training and monitoring.
Goldberg said the division centered AI work in its Compass to 2030 strategy and strategic action agenda, running a year of professional learning that trained principals, instructional technology specialists and more than 2,500 teachers to design AI-assisted and AI-resistant learning experiences. He said the June simulation showed ‘‘effective AI use is selective and intentional and the human is always in the loop,’’ and that students who were ‘‘power users’’ typically used the tools to scaffold work (personalized help, writing support, STEM debugging), not to shortcut assignments.
The presentation included concrete usage data: ‘‘Almost 88 percent of all high school students accessed the AI tool sometime between when we turned it on on November 5 till the end of the year,’’ Goldberg said. He also reported roughly 17,000 high-school students used AI with guidance and guardrails during the year and that teachers’ usefulness ratings for AI tools were in the 92–98 percent range.
Goldberg outlined the division’s approved tool list (Gemini and NotebookLM for high school; curated image tools and embedded systems for younger students) and described a new guardrail for 2026–27: chat-history monitoring through Securly. ‘‘Teachers and administrators have the ability to search by student, filter by date range, and review the full context of any AI conversation that took place on a school device,’’ Goldberg said, adding students will be told about the monitoring in introductory lessons.
Board members raised common concerns—about unequal student facility with tools, off‑site access, teacher monitoring workload and the risk of students relying on AI rather than developing independent skills. Goldberg said the division will continue an iterative feedback loop with principals and ITS staff, will not give unrestricted after-hours access to middle-school students, and will return quarterly with updates.
Next steps include continuing professional learning for teachers, expanding monitoring training on Securly for staff, and quarterly updates to the board. Goldberg said the division will provide more school-level examples of classroom use and report back on implementation progress.
