Family communication & parent-facing AI literacy

45 minutesAll staff

Goal

Each teacher or team leaves with one ready-to-send family message about AI, in plain language and with English/Spanish parity, and a shared understanding of what to tell parents.

Prep

The current parent one-pager draft and the Student AI Policy family section open.
Claude / Cowork open for drafting and for English↔Spanish pairing.
Any real parent questions collected this year (from conferences, email) to ground the session.
Shared doc for the messages teachers draft.

0:00 — 0:07

Open · what parents are actually asking

Do Surface the real questions families have raised ("Is my kid cheating?" "Is their data safe?" "Why is the school using this?"). Sort them into what parents ask vs. what they should be asking.

0:07 — 0:22

Focus · the message that lands

Lead with reassurance and clarity, not jargon. Families want to know: what AI is used for at S2, how it's supervised, how student data is protected, and what their child is learning about using it responsibly.
Disclosure-first, in parent language. "We teach students to say when and how they used AI, the same way we teach them to cite a source."
Equity and access. Structured access narrows gaps; the school's job is to make AI show up fairly. Name it plainly.
Spanish parity is not optional. Two bilingual campuses; every family-facing message ships in English and Spanish together, not as an afterthought.
Show the one-pager that lands (short, concrete, warm) against an open-house slide that overwhelms (dense, technical, defensive).

0:22 — 0:38

Hands-on · draft one family message (laptops open)

Each teacher or grade team drafts one real message in the shared doc, using AI to help and to pair languages:

Pick a real use: a back-to-school-night blurb, a newsletter paragraph about AI in your class, or a note home about your disclosure routine.
Draft it with AI in your own voice, then have AI produce the Spanish version and read both. Prompt: "Rewrite this warmly for families at a 6th-grade reading level, then give me a Spanish version that matches."
Check the Spanish with a bilingual colleague in the room, don't ship an unread translation.

Do Every teacher leaves with one message they could actually send this spring.

Watch Warmth over completeness. A short message that gets read beats a thorough one that doesn't.

0:38 — 0:45

Share-out + commit

Do A couple of teachers read their message (both languages). Commitment: send it before year-end. Preview: May is the year-end showcase and the vote on next year's curriculum.

After the session

Collect the strongest messages into a shared family-communication bank (bilingual).
Feed common parent questions to the working group for the family one-pager.