Check the toolbefore youpaste.

Using AI tools in class

AI tools can save real time: drafting rubrics, leveling a reading passage, brainstorming discussion questions or suggesting feedback language. They also raise the same privacy questions as any other app, plus a few new ones. Your district's AI guidance is the rule to follow; these habits fit almost every district's approach.

• Use approved AI tools only, signed in the way the district set up. An approved tool has been reviewed for how it stores and uses what you type. A free chatbot on a personal account has not.
• Never paste student records into an unapproved AI tool. That includes names, IEPs and 504 plans, grades, health information, behavior notes, family details and student essays. Removing names is not enough. A story about a student's family move, a rare diagnosis or a small class can identify a child.
• Check what an approved tool is approved for. Some tools are approved for lesson planning but not for student work or special education documents. Ask if you are unsure.
• Check every output. AI tools can state wrong facts confidently, invent sources, miss a student's meaning or reflect bias. Read and fix anything before it reaches students or families. You are responsible for the grade and the feedback, not the tool.
• Keep grading decisions yours. AI can suggest comments. You decide the score.
• Be open about AI use. Tell students when AI helped create materials or draft feedback, following district guidance, and teach them your class rules for their own AI use.

Do: use AI for planning, examples and first drafts, then edit. Don't: upload class rosters, IEP goals or student writing to a tool the district has not approved, even "just to try it."