is transforming teaching and learning in US schools at an astonishing pace. In 2022-2023, school districts employed an average of 2591 AI-powered education technology tools. AI can open new fields of exploration and learning for students, assist educators to build up-to-date curricula, support students with disabilities with adaptive tools, and personalize student support and guidance. And yet AI in education systems can also lead to risks related to data privacy, surveillance, and bias.

This new guide is intended to equip communities and their school districts and systems to create rules, policies, and procedures to screen AI tools for quality and bias, and to guide their implementation.

We believe that responsible and pro-active governance of AI in schools will open space for young people to radically imagine futures with technology in which the history and cultural significance of BIPOC communities holds power, where youth lead the way in designing healthy relationships with technology, and where future technologies are enriched by human and natural systems.

Creative and empowered learning with AI can challenge conventional visions of the future and what is considered inevitable – if students are safe and protected emotionally, physically, and socially.