Let Students Lead: Co-Creating AI Policies That Actually Work

As schools navigate AI in teaching and learning, the stakes are high, but the path forward does not have to be top-down. This poster presentation shares how one district centered student voices, educator expertise and stakeholder input to develop AI policies that actually work. Discover how a years-long collaborative process combined design thinking, real-time feedback loops and student involvement to build an adaptive, evolving framework grounded in national best practices. The result was policy that is responsive, equitable and sustainable because the people most affected helped create it. You will leave with a replicable framework for launching your own multi-stakeholder task force with student input as the foundation, evidence-based approaches informed by student data, teacher input and national standards, and practical ideas for feedback and data collection systems that keep policies current. Explore examples and lessons learned from implementation, along with templates, facilitation guides and ethical frameworks for aligning AI policy with best practices while maintaining local autonomy.