The division’s AI platform, MagicSchool, is currently only available to teachers, CCPS Director of Instructional Technology Marc Hudson said at Monday’s school board meeting.
Teachers have been trained on MagicSchool, which Hudson said doesn’t share information with large language models.
He said CCPS teachers use the platform most frequently for lesson planning, instructional materials and its customized chatbot Raina.
“They [teachers] are starting to create some custom agents to help them with some tasks that they need in the classroom,” he said.
Under the pilot, Hudson said four teachers and 15 students will use MagicSchool in authentic classroom settings.
“The idea is to truly get an idea of what this will look like through the student-use perspective and also gain an idea of what it looks like to walk alongside the teachers and to help them truly understand this,” he said.
He said the division will use data from the pilot to identify best practices for classroom AI integration, clarify training needs and inform division guidelines and professional development structures for a potential fall rollout of MagicSchool to high school students.
“Once you start getting students in there doing it and teachers doing it, I’m sure there will be some things that we’ll learn from this that we will have to adjust with the guardrails or even the guidelines that we’ve kind of started to create,” he said.
Hudson previously updated the school board on AI use in August, prior to the launch of CCPS’s first division-wide guidelines in the fall.
At that meeting, Hudson said the division sees safe and appropriate AI use for students as brainstorming, tutoring, creating study guides and practicing skills. It should be teacher-guided, developmentally appropriate and properly cited when contributing to academic work.
Meanwhile, prohibited student use includes submitting AI-generated work as their own, entering personal, sensitive or educational data into non-approved AI tools, and generating inappropriate, biased or misleading content.
He said the division wants to support students in developing an understanding of ethical, appropriate AI use.
“This is not to replace any form of learning,” he said. “It’s to enhance it.”
He said the division hopes to start gathering feedback from the pilot in March and will recommend any plans for further implementation by the end of April.
The Campbell County School Board will meet again at 6:30 p.m. on March 9 at the Campbell County Technical Center.
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