AI Strikes Again
December 01, 2025
Ethical Educator
Scenario:
A professor in the university鈥檚 superintendent preparation program is experimenting with multiple AI apps and uses the topic of a group presentation as a test case. On one platform, he discovers a word-for-word script of what a class member, a high school principal, had passed off as his own work in a group presentation. The university has no relevant policy, but the professor doesn鈥檛 consider it plagiarism because the words were not taken from another person. In terms of his own academic integrity, should the professor let this go, report it or confront the aspiring superintendent? 
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The Ethical Educator panel consists of
- Sheldon H. Berman, author of Implementing Social-Emotional Learning: Insights from School Districts鈥� Successes and Setbacks.
- Susan Enfield, executive director, University of Washington鈥檚 Center for Educational Leadership, Seattle, Wash.
- Arthur Schwartz, president, ; and
- Maria G. Ott, Irving R. and Virginia A. Melbo chair in education administration, University of Southern California.
Each month, School Administrator draws on actual circumstances to raise an ethical decision-making dilemma in K-12 education. Our distinguished panelists provide their own resolutions to each dilemma.
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