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Superintendent proposes AI-use policy; March 25 PD to cover AI safety and classroom guidance
Summary
Beecher staff will hold a half-day PD on March 25 focused on cybersecurity, privacy and teacher-facing AI tools; the superintendent proposed an AI policy and said a committee chaired by Joe Dunkel will address safety and permitted classroom uses.
District leadership signaled a new focus on artificial intelligence and digital literacy, proposing both a staff-facing policy and training to reduce cheating risks and protect student privacy. The superintendent said he will present an AI policy to the full board and assigned Joe Dunkel to lead a committee overseeing safe, appropriate AI usage for instruction and assessment.
"AI is cheating if you go on, take a picture of your math problem, copy it," the superintendent said when describing district concerns about students using public AI tools. He announced a March 25 half-day professional development session from the learning center that will include nearly two hours devoted to AI usage in the classroom, plus discussion of cybersecurity and privacy tools such as GoGuardian. The superintendent said staff will show teachers private or server-based AI tools that avoid sending student data into public cloud services and stressed that teacher-facing AI can be a legitimate support while student-facing use will be tightly controlled.
Committee members raised privacy and safety concerns and asked that internet-safety instruction and parameters for student research be incorporated into curriculum guidance. The superintendent said internet-safety remains part of instruction and that the immediate goal is to prevent cheating while helping teachers learn safe classroom uses of these new tools.
