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Active Generative AI Pilots

Select schools, educators, and staff explore whether AI tools would make meaningful additions to their classroom tools through a pilot, allowing the District to do a competitive analysis of the AI tool market and understand the stakeholder value. For more information on how products and tools get piloted in the District, see the Approved Generative AI Tools section of the website.

Active AI Pilot Tools

There are a wide variety of EdTech based materials available and marketed to educators, but most do not meet the District’s High Quality Curriculum standards on their own. Not being aligned to HQIM implies that a product has no or insufficient transparency–no accountability as to what prompts or data are being used–meaning we can't guarantee that the outputs it produces will meet CPS standards, nor can we verify it. Our goal as a District is to take external tools with high potential and shape them into powerful resources that are meaningful to CPS specifically.

The following table lists AI tools actively being piloted by the District. 

Current Pilots Lead Partners Description
Gemini Enterprise Generative AI Google Google has begun integrating a powerful new suite of AI tools using its Gemini models directly into Google Classroom and other Workspace applications. In line with the District’s commitment to responsible and thoughtful innovation, CPS launched a comprehensive pilot program to evaluate these tools before considering a District-wide implementation. The leadership and vision of our stakeholders have been essential to understanding the real impact of these technologies on school culture and instructional practice.
Parlay Ideas Curriculum, Instruction, and Digital Learning Select schools and educators within CPS Parlay is an AI-powered instructional platform that helps teachers facilitate meaningful, measurable, and inclusive class discussions. Automatically generate discussion topics, summaries, feedback, assessment, and follow-up questions in the click of a button.
PASTA AI Department of STEM WestEd, Michigan State University, University of Georgia, University of Illinois at Chicago The PASTA project is building upon the Next Generation Science Assessments (NGSA) that are aligned to NGSS and can be used in conjunction with any NGSS-aligned curriculum, like Skyline. Like the Skyline checkpoint assessments, the NGSA tasks are open-ended, which requires teachers to score them and decide the student groupings for reteaching. The PASTA project uses AI to score the assessments and place students into recommended groupings for reteaching. AI scoring has the potential to enhance equity by ensuring that all teachers can implement formative assessment techniques and has the potential to remove teacher biases by providing consistent scoring.
Scratch Encore/ Conjurer Department of STEM University of Chicago AI will allow teachers to modify the "wrapper" on the Scratch Encore Computer Science modules to integrate into content-specific themes or create community-based/culturally relevant themes. Outcome for students is Computer Science learning is available in more classes, more schools, more communities. Increased engagement and relevance for CS/STEM identity.
Brisk Curriculum, Instruction, and Digital Learning Select educators and the curriculum designers within CPS Teachers and curriculum designers are offering Brisk feedback that will directly shape how Brisk supports CPS educators moving forward. Among others, key features being explored include alignment to Illinois Standards, alignment to the CPS AI Guidebook, and the Batch Feedback tool: generating timely, specific, and actionable feedback for the entire class.