Artificial Intelligence in Girls’ Schools
Headways™ 2024-2025 Cohort Offering
Cohort Region: Global
Open To: All members of ICGS schools in all roles and departments who are interested in this topic. This Headways™ program focuses on helping educators navigate the practical and ethical implications of generative AI. A key focus for each session will be discussing the specific impact of AI in girls’ schools.
Co-Facilitators: Brett Quimby, English instructor at Marlborough School (US) and Jake Unwin, Head of History at Sutton High School and Trust Consultant Teacher for the Girls’ Day School Trust (UK)
Discussion Topics
November 4, 2024 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST / 4-5 p.m. GMT via Zoom
AI – Our Schools’ Concerns & Ambitions
| i. Progress so far | How far has our school/learning networks gone in adopting AI? What has been responsible for this? |
| ii. Concerns | What are our shared concerns? |
| iii. Ambitions | What are our shared ambitions? |
| iv. Girls | Does it make a difference that we represent girls’ schools? |
| v. A shared cohort goal | To publish an ‘International Report on AI in girls’ schools 2024-25 |
December 10, 2024 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST / 4-5 p.m. GMT via Zoom
AI in School Leadership, Administration & Operations
| i. Policies | How far has your school effectively implemented school & national policies on AI? |
| ii. Leadership | How is school leadership training staff and directing use of AI? |
| iii. Operations & administrative efficiency | Has the use of AI actually streamlined school administrative procedures yet? What ways can it be used to this end? For instance, writing trip letters, processing student data. |
January 13, 2025 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST / 4-5 p.m. GMT via Zoom
AI in Teaching & Learning
| i. Measuring impact | How do we measure efficacy of use of AI for teaching & learning? |
| ii. Personalised learning | How has and can AI deliver personalised learning for your students? |
| iii. Planning | How has AI impacted teachers’ approach to planning for learning? |
| iv. Classroom sandbox | What practical best-practice have you seen in the classroom? Share a one-page document of the best-practice you have used or seen in use. |
February 10, 2025 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST / 4-5 p.m. GMT via Zoom
AI Literacy for Students
| i. Student use | How are our students using AI independently of teacher input? |
| ii. Student challenges | What issues / difficulties do your students face in using AI? |
| iii. Digital wellbeing & ethics | How are we empowering digital wellbeing of students and teaching ethical usage? |
| iv. Teaching AI | How are we teaching our students to use AI effectively? |
| V. Discipline-Specific Skills | What considerations do we have about different disciplines and how students use AI? |
March 10, 2025 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT / 3-4 p.m. GMT via Zoom
AI in Assessment
| i. Formative feedback | How are we using AI to provide formative feedback to increase student understanding? |
| ii. Plagiarism? | How are students citing their use of AI, and how are schools responding to improper use of AI? |
| iii. Summative assessment | Can AI provide better accurate and impartial results over teachers? |
| Iv. Self-assessment | In looking at our own time as a cohort, what are our takeaways from our work together? |
