San Rafael City Schools will join a new countywide AI training program in October after adopting its own AI guidance in 2025.

The program costs $62,800, according to the Marin Independent Journal. The Marin County Office of Education (MCOE) will cover half. Participating districts will split the rest proportionally.

Edapt, a California company that trains educators on AI policy, will lead three three-hour sessions starting in October, with the remaining two spread across the school year. Between sessions, Edapt staff will offer online office hours for troubleshooting and advice.

SRCS Superintendent Carmen Diaz Ghysels said the district's AI guidance was created by a committee of administrators, teachers, parents and students. The board adopted the guidance in June 2025. Diaz Ghysels said it covers four areas: academic and ethical integrity, educator-focused direction, transparency and accountability, and growth and safety. She said the district intends the guidance to stay adaptable as AI technology evolves.

That guidance has already filtered into classrooms. SRCS directed both San Rafael High School and Terra Linda High School to develop their own student-facing AI expectations. At San Rafael High, Assistant Principal Morales built a color-coded AI matrix for the 2025-26 school year, giving teachers a tool to flag whether students can use AI on specific assignments, Off Leash reported in October 2025. Before the matrix, the school had no AI-specific guidelines beyond standard academic honesty rules.

"AI is not one thing, it's many things. There is no one way to train teachers on AI," SRHS administrator Dominguez told Off Leash in October 2025, explaining why structured training matters.

Marin County Superintendent of Schools John A. Carroll said the program aims to help each district build its own approach. Each district can send a staff team to the sessions and then work toward self-sufficiency in setting AI guidelines, Carroll said.

Other Marin districts have taken different approaches to AI. Tamalpais Union High School District formed an AI committee in 2025 and unanimously approved a policy in June. Novato Unified blocks AI chat tools for middle schoolers and limits high school students to Google Gemini within set guidelines.

MCOE has not announced the specific October session date.