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Board reviews draft district AI policy: graded access, teacher training and monitoring proposed
Summary
The district presented a draft AI policy with a grade‑band approach (prohibit K–5, supervised 6–8, guided independence 9–12), a requirement that approved platforms be district‑controlled (NotebookLM/Gemini notebook for education for students; Gemini and Claude for staff), and mandatory teacher training and human review of detection tools.
District leadership presented a draft artificial‑intelligence policy and regulation for public review; this session was a stakeholder review, not a first reading. The presenter said the policy work has drawn on three years of meetings, surveys and focus groups with parents, staff and students.
"We're looking at a graduated approach by grade band," the presenter said, listing the framework: AI prohibited in K–5, structured and supervised in grades 6–8, and guided independence in grades 9–12. He noted the district intends to permit only approved, closed‑network tools on district devices and cited NotebookLM/Gemini notebook for education as the student platform the district will pilot.
Academic integrity was a central theme. The presenter said AI‑detection tools may be used as part of a process but "results can never be the sole basis for an integrity finding"; any flagged concern will go through human review. The policy also calls for mandatory teacher training in September covering ethical use, classroom integration and grading guardrails.
District librarians are developing generative‑AI literacy lessons for grades 1–12, and the administration plans to present curricular materials to the board in August. The presenter also described staff use cases—loading large reference documents into a closed notebook tool to retrieve references quickly—while noting the need to verify AI‑sourced references before acting on them.
The board and staff emphasized annual review of the policy to keep pace with rapidly changing tools and to preserve academic integrity while exploring constructive classroom uses.
