AI in the LRHSD

Our district is committed to equipping educators and students with the knowledge and tools to use AI responsibly and effectively. We will provide professional development, resources, and clear guidelines to support teachers and students at all levels of AI familiarity, ensuring ethical, safe, and thoughtful integration in the classroom.

AI will be embraced as a tool to enhance efficiency, creativity, and critical thinking; not to replace human learning. Through collaboration across disciplines, we will create a unified approach that prepares students for an AI-driven future while maintaining academic integrity and fostering innovation.

AI is a tool to support learning, not a replacement for real thinking and effort. Students will develop AI and digital skills by thinking critically, using AI responsibly, and following ethical guidelines in school and everyday life.

Appropriate Personal Use

• Privacy: Don’t share personal, private, or sensitive information.
• Respect: Avoid using AI to create or spread inappropriate images or content about others.
• Responsibility: AI content can be misused or contain incorrect information. Do not share harmful, offensive, or misleading material. Bullying or harassment with AI content is not allowed and will be dealt with according to school rules.

Academic Integrity and Guidelines

• Follow Instructions: Use AI as directed by your teacher; different assignments might have levels of AI Integration.
• Cite Sources: Always cite any ideas, text, or research generated by AI, following your teacher’s guidelines.
• Know the Limits: Check the LRHSD AI Integration Wheel to see what level of AI use is allowed for each assignment.

Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy

• Enhance, Don’t Replace: Use AI to boost your learning and thinking skills, not to replace your own work.
• Always use AI responsibly to promote learning, ethical decisions, and digital responsibility.

AI does not replace authentic instruction, assessment, or human connection in the classroom.

• All educators will continue to foster critical thinking and original thought.
• All educators are responsible for learning about and teaching appropriate AI use specific to their content area.
• All educators will clearly communicate assignment expectations aligned with a standard district AI use wheel.
• All educators will teach and model appropriate use of AI, including proper citation, privacy protection, and bias awareness.
• All educators will ensure equal access to AI platforms for all students.

The creation of the LRHSD Teaching and Learning Foundational Expectations was crafted using human ingenuity and collaboration first and foremost. Researching several school districts’ AI guidelines and other open-source documents sparked an opportunity for committee members to adapt certain components to meet LRHSD standards for our staff and high school-aged students. Committee members collaborated not only with each other but with generative AI sources to help organize ideas, adapt language for intended audiences, and suggest ideas for consideration (AI Co-creator, from the LRHSD AI Integration Wheel). The committee members relied upon their experience with AI and their ability to communicate effectively with one another and colleagues in their schools to strengthen their final recommendations for these guidelines.

Work Consulted Code.org, CoSN, Digital Promise, European EdTech Alliance, Larimore, J., and PACE. AI Guidance for Schools Toolkit. 2023, teachai.org/toolkit. Accessed 30 Jan. 2024.