Board hears AI 'stoplight' plan to guide classroom use, staff to report back this fall

Board members and staff spent the first major presentation slot describing how artificial intelligence will be integrated into classroom practice, beginning at the high school and expanding to younger grades.

The presenter demonstrated NotebookLM and other AI workflows that condense meeting minutes, create timelines and even auto-generate audio summaries. "AI is not perfect. AI does hallucinate from time to time," the presenter said, stressing both the technology's power and its limits. Staff described concrete classroom guidance: a 'stoplight' graphic teachers will post in classrooms and language to include in syllabi. Unless a teacher explicitly authorizes AI for an assignment, use will default to the red zone and be treated as academic dishonesty.

Why it matters: the district aims to teach students how to use AI safely while preserving academic integrity and student–teacher relationships. Staff said detection rests on multiple signals—teacher familiarity with a student’s work, document history and corroborating evidence—rather than on an AI-detection tool alone.

Board members asked about rollout and comparisons to neighboring districts; staff said the district is ahead of many peers and plans to make syllabus language and classroom visuals available before open house in late August and to provide a fuller update in October or November after teachers have had a month of implementation.

Next steps: teachers will receive professional development in August; staff will report implementation progress to the board in the fall. The board did not vote on policy changes tonight; staff said the current acceptable-use and plagiarism provisions will be clarified rather than completely rewritten.