WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The spring semester of school is underway, and for several Palm Beach County high schools, lessons may look a little different.

The school district partnered with the Stiles-Nicholson Foundation, a local nonprofit working to improve and enhance education, to implement a teaching assistant in the classroom through Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This new AI program is called “Khanmigo,” and it’s through an educational resource you might already recognize: Khan Academy.Since this program rolled out last week, Palm Beach County Superintendent Mike Burke says it’s too early to tell if it’s effective, but he is hearing good feedback from teachers so far.

“We were looking for a safe way to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence and I feel this is the best product to meet the needs of our kids,” said Burke.

It covers all subjects, providing personalized learning tutoring for students, and lesson planning and grading tools for teachers.

“If there arestudents having questions as they work through the problem, they can go to their ‘Khanmigo’ assistant, which is a chat bot right on their desktop, and ask it questions. It won’t just give them the answer, but it’ll make them work through the problem,” said Burke. “I think AI is a powerful tool that is going to pretty much change every industry. We can’t sit on the sidelines and let this opportunity pass us by. Just like when the personal computers came on the scene, we need to make sure our students are leveraging these tools and getting the benefit of working with them.”

These nine high schools below started using “Khanmigo” at the start of this spring semester.

• Boca Raton High School
• Jupiter Community High School
• Seminole Ridge Community High School
• Boynton Beach Community High School
• Palm Beach Central High School
• Suncoast Community High School
• Glades Central Community High School
• Santaluces Community High School
• WellingtonHigh School

Burke says it’s not because these students’ grades were noticeably lower or because of other factors, just that these were the first schools to volunteer using the program. Come August, all 25 of the district’s high schools will use it.

After this semester, the district will look at students’ SAT scores and state testing scores as well as student participation on the program to determine the effectiveness of “Khanmigo” moving forward. Students’ progress will also be tracked monthly, the superintendent said.

The School District of Palm Beach County will cover $2 million towards funding the program, which is half of the total cost. The Stiles-Nicholson Foundation will cover the other $2 million.