AI Adoption Roadmap for Education Institutions

Are you trying to figure out the best path to adopting AI responsibly at your school? We know it can feel like an overwhelming process determining what to prioritize and when to do it.

To help we’ve created our AI Adoption Roadmap for Education Institutions that focuses on how to establish a strong foundation and developing an AI policy, develop your staff and update educational materials, train your students and larger school community, and continuously review how your implementation plan is going to be able to address and progress.

The 4 Phases:

1. Establish a Foundation

• Host an introductory meeting and AI training for district and school leadership, board, and other key stakeholders

• Create a cross-functional team to workshop and develop a district and/or school-wide AI academic guidelines including school leaders, teachers, students, and community members

• Review current EdTech providers deploying GenAI and set time to vet the safety, privacy, reliability and efficacy of their new GenAI applications to determine if they are fit-for-purpose for your school

2. Develop Your Staff

• Provide a professional development session on GenAI that covers how AI has already impacted our lives, how it works, its capabilities and limitations, and how it can support their practice and students when responsibly adopted

• Share the guidelines draft for feedback and work with teachers on what this means for them and their students

• Support teachers in updating their syllabi to include the AI academic integrity guidelines and shift traditional assessments to AI-assisted and AI-resistant versions where necessary

3. Educate Students & the Community

• Share the AI academic guidelines at a school-wide assembly with combined outreach to parents to ensure a common understanding across the school community

• Encourage teachers to review the guidelines in each of their classrooms along with their new syllabi and examples of appropriate/inappropriate use

• Launch an AI Literacy Day + AI Digital Literacy training to upskill students so they are future-ready

• Provide ongoing opportunities for training and learning to teachers and the larger school community

4. Assess and Progress

• Create a cadence to review and reevaluate your academic guidelines in light of new advancements

• Evaluate new AI tools for appropriateness for teachers and the classroom to launch pilot programs

• Continuously update and provide training across the school community including opportunities to share exemplars and/or voice concerns

• Elevate voices and best practices for GenAI adoption from across the community including industry partners