How To Use These AI Policy Resources
Choose the education setting that matches your organization, then adapt the template to your local mission, legal requirements, risk tolerance, technology environment, and governance process. These policy guides for AI are starting points for discussion, review, and implementation.
Policy & Legal Reminder
These resources are planning and governance tools, not legal advice or mandatory model policies. Institutions should review AI guidance with appropriate leadership, legal counsel, technology, privacy, accessibility, instructional, and compliance stakeholders before adoption.
Choose Your AI Policy and Guidance Template
Each template is designed for a different education environment. Use the one that best matches your audience, then refine the language with the people who will be responsible for teaching, learning, operations, data protection, and oversight. Strong AI guidance should explain what is allowed, what requires approval, what data should never be entered into AI tools, and where human review remains essential.
K-12 Education
Guidance for school districts, administrators, teachers, staff, students, and families developing responsible AI expectations across classrooms and operations.
Higher Education
A planning framework for colleges and universities addressing AI governance across teaching, research, administration, student services, privacy, security, and procurement.
Related National Resources
Education leaders may also want to monitor national guidance from organizations such as the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Standards and Technology while adapting local AI policies and procedures.
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