Guiding Principles

The following principles guide the appropriate and safe use of AI and address current and future educational goals, teacher and student agency, academic integrity, and security. We commit to adopting internal procedures to operationalize each principle.

1. We use AI to help all students achieve their educational goals and make a difference in the world. We will use AI to help us realize our strategic priorities and support our core values. This includes improving student learning, teacher effectiveness, and school operations. We aim to make AI resources universally accessible, focusing especially on bridging the digital divide among students and staff. We are committed to evaluating AI tools for biases and ethical concerns, ensuring they effectively serve our diverse educational community.
2. We reaffirm adherence to existing policies and regulations. AI is one of many technologies used in our schools, and its use will align with existing regulations to protect student privacy, ensure accessibility to those with disabilities, and protect against harmful content. We will not share personally identifiable information with consumer-based AI systems. We will address unauthorized or misuse of AI through applicable policies and procedures.
3. We educate our staff and students about AI. Promoting AI literacy among students and staff is central to addressing the risks of AI use and teaches critical skills for students’ futures. Students and staff will be given support to develop their AI literacy, including how to use AI, when, and how it works. We will support teachers in adapting instruction in a context where some or all students can access generative AI tools.
4. We explore the opportunities of AI and address the risks. In continuing to guide our learning community, we will work to realize the benefits of AI in education, address risks associated with using AI, and evaluate if and when to use AI tools, paying special attention to misinformation and bias. We will thoroughly evaluate existing and future technologies and address any gaps in compliance that might rise.
5. We use AI to advance academic integrity. Honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility continue to be expectations for both students and teachers. Students should be truthful in giving credit to sources and tools and honest in presenting work that is genuinely their own for evaluation and feedback.
6. We maintain student and teacher agency when using AI tools. AI tools can provide recommendations or enhance decision-making, but staff and students will serve as “critical consumers” of AI and lead any organizational and academic decisions and changes. People will be responsible and accountable for pedagogical or decision-making processes where AI systems may inform decision-making.             
7. We commit to auditing, monitoring, and evaluating our school’s use of AI. Understanding that AI and technologies are evolving rapidly, we commit to frequent and regular reviews and updates of our policies, procedures, and practices.