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AI Use Policy
[School name]
This policy explains how students, educators, and parents or guardians at [School name] use AI for learning. It sets out what AI is for, who reviews what, and how expectations grow as students do.
Scope
This policy covers approved AI tools used for school work on school devices, on school networks, and on personal devices whenever the work is for school.
Guidelines for everyone
- AI is a tool for learning. It never replaces a student's own work.
- AI can help create learning materials. An educator or parent reviews and fact-checks anything AI generates before students see it.
- Used well, AI adds support: relatable examples, practice problems, clear explanations, and fresh perspectives on a topic.
- Only approved AI tools are used. The current list lives at [Approved AI tools]. A tool that is not on the list needs a review and an approval before anyone uses it.
Educators and parents
Educators and parents may use approved AI tools to
- Draft and generate lesson plans, rubrics, curriculum content, activities (digital and printable), practice problems, quizzes, and learning content such as readings and audio.
- Run auto-graded online quizzes from approved platforms, as long as clear grading criteria or a rubric is in place.
- Prepare lessons: activities, scripts, vocabulary lists, and instructional materials.
- Support their own professional development: understanding AI's impact on education, learning best practices, and learning how to help students use AI well and responsibly.
Caution: Photo and scan based auto-grading tools may be used, but only with extra supervision and human review whenever the work includes handwriting.
Educators and parents must not
- Enter identifiable student information into consumer AI tools. Use only school-approved or properly licensed tools that have a Data Processing Agreement (DPA), or an equivalent data protection agreement, in place.
- Draft sensitive student records with AI, such as IEPs, safeguarding notes, or behavior incident reports, without thorough human review and revision.
- Let AI be the sole basis for a high-stakes decision about a student. For example, AI is never the only source of assessment information used to decide whether a student passes or fails an assignment, exam, or course.
- Rely on AI detectors alone to mark a student's work as "used AI."
Accountability rule: Educators and parents are responsible for reviewing AI-generated content before sharing it with students, families, administrators, or anyone else in the school community. Check it for accuracy, appropriateness, bias, and errors first.
Students
Expectations grow with the student. Younger children only meet AI through content an adult has checked. Older students learn to use it directly, carefully, and honestly.
Pre-K to Grade 3
- Students do not use generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT or Gemini) directly unless a tool has been approved for their age group by the school, district, or a parent.
- Students may use learning content created with AI once an adult has reviewed and approved it.
- Teach students that AI is not a person.
- Teach students that AI can make mistakes, so its answers are not always facts.
Grades 4 to 6
- Students do not use generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT or Gemini) directly unless a tool has been approved for their age group by the school, district, or a parent.
- AI use is limited, age-appropriate, and scaffolded.
- Students may use learning materials made with AI.
- An adult, such as a teacher, the school, or a parent, creates, reviews, and provides any AI-generated materials.
- Students begin learning how AI works, where it falls short, and why checking AI-generated information matters.
Grades 7 and 8
- Students do not use generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT or Gemini) directly unless a tool has been approved for their age group by the school, district, or a parent.
- Students treat AI-generated materials like any other source: read critically and check the facts.
- Students question information that conflicts with other sources, look for errors, and verify anything important.
- Students learn how to acknowledge and disclose AI use whenever an assignment or school policy asks for it.
- Students keep learning how AI works: how it processes information, how responses are generated, and what a hallucination is.
High school, Grades 9 to 12
- Students get more opportunities to use AI directly for learning, and to practice using it responsibly and ethically.
- AI use focuses on learning, research, and skill building. Examples: structured searches on academic topics, career and workforce exploration, debate prep and counterpoints, exam preparation, and brainstorming.
- Students learn to evaluate AI-generated information critically and to verify it against reliable sources.
- Academic integrity expectations are communicated clearly and monitored consistently.
- Students learn that AI works best as a support for their own growth, never as a substitute for their own thinking and work.
Privacy
When choosing and using AI tools, educators and parents make sure that:
- Student data is never used to train third-party AI models.
- Students under 13 only use tools that comply with COPPA and FERPA, or the equivalent local regulation.
- In a school setting, every tool has a signed Data Processing Agreement with [Data agreement holder].
Academic honesty
- Some assignments are marked "no AI." Using an AI tool on one of these is a breach of academic honesty.
- Some assignments are marked "AI allowed with disclosure." Students note how they used the AI tool.
