PURPOSE AND GENERAL POLICY STATEMENT

The School Board recognizes the potential that Generative Artificial Intelligence ("Generative AI") offers for enhancing educational opportunities, streamlining operations, and preparing students for a future that demands adaptability, critical thinking, and advanced digital literacy. To that end, the ultimate goal of this policy is to support the safe, ethical, effective, and sustainable use of Generative AI in the Contoocook Valley School District.

DEFINITIONS

"Artificial Intelligence (AI)" means technology designed to mimic human intelligence and perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence, such as analyzing data, recognizing patterns, learning, reasoning, and decision-making.

"AI Literacy" refers to the knowledge and skills that enable humans to understand, critically evaluate, and use AI systems and tools to safely and ethically participate in an increasingly digital world.

"Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI)" is an advanced subset of AI that may adapt their behavior by analyzing the effects of their own previous actions, and operating under varying and unpredictable circumstances, often without significant human oversight. As such, Generative AI tools and resources have the capacity to generate new content from learned data and pattern recognition across various modalities such as text, code, images, audio, and video data. The focus of this policy is on Generative AI.

"AI-generated content" refers to any text, image, audio, video, or code that is created, in whole or in part, by a Generative AI tool rather than being solely authored by a human.

"Generative AI tool" means a software application or platform that uses generative AI to create new content (e.g., text, images, music). The user interacts directly with the Generative AI tool (e.g., Google Gemini, NoteBookLM) to generate content based on prompts or other inputs.

"Generative AI resource" means any material, guide, or support content that helps users understand, use, or teach about Generative AI tools. A Generative AI resource supports learning about or how to use generative AI tools (e.g., lesson plans on AI ethics, tutorials on using Generative AI, policy documents/videos), rather than generating content itself.

"Deepfake" means a video, audio, or any other media of a person in which their face, body, or voice has been digitally altered so that they appear to be someone else, they appear to be saying something that they have never said, or to manipulate the actual statement to suggest a meaning that the original statement did not convey, or they appear to be doing something that they have never done.

GENERATIVE AI USE PLAN

The Board directs the Superintendent to create a plan for the use of Generative AI in the Contoocook Valley School District by May 1, 2026, to be fully implemented during the 2026-2027 school year:

• The plan shall establish general guidelines for the safe, ethical, effective, and sustainable use of Generative AI in the District's learning and working environments.
• The plan shall support learning, creativity, and innovation, all the while safeguarding student and employee data, academic integrity, and digital citizenship.
• The plan shall outline the approval process for using Generative AI tools.
• The plan shall promote a shared understanding of key terms and their definitions.
• The plan shall establish guidelines for the attribution and citation of using generative AI.

APPROVAL OF GENERATIVE AI TOOLS AND RESOURCES

No Generative AI tool may be introduced into the District’s computer and network systems unless the tool is identified as approved in the District’s database of applications, digital tools, extensions, and online resources.

Prior to such approval, the tool will be vetted following the process outlined in the District’s Generative AI Use Plan, which ensures that an approved Generative AI tool has been (1) reviewed by appropriate personnel and (2) vetted for compliance, following the administrative procedures outlined in Board policy EHAB - Data Governance and Security.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE PLAN

The Superintendent, in consultation with appropriate personnel, shall review and evaluate annually the District’s implementation of the Generative AI Use Plan. The then current Plan, and any recommendations for policy changes or required resources shall be reported to the School Board each year no later than May 1st of each school year.

NH Statutes

RSA 189:65 Definitions

RSA 189:66 Data Inventory and Policies Publication

RSA 189:67 Limits on Disclosure of Information

RSA 189:68 Student Privacy

RSA 189:68-a Student Online Personal Information

Federal Statutes

15 U.S.C. §§ 6501-6506 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1232h

20 U.S.C. § 1232h Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA)

20 U.S.C. § 1400-1417 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

20 U.S.C. §1232g Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Category: Recommended

First Read: August 19, 2025

Second Read: September 2, 2025

Adopted: September 2, 2025



Suspended: October 7, 2025



First Read: April 21, 2026

Second Read: May 19, 2026

Adopted: May 19, 2026