How School Psychologists in Ohio Are Using AI in May 2025: A Six-Month Progress Report

This spring, I conducted a follow-up survey of Ohio-based school health professionals—including 129 school psychologists—to better understand how generative AI is (or isn’t) being used in their daily practice. This builds on a nearly identical survey fielded by the Ohio School Psychologists Association (OSPA) just six months earlier, in December 2024 and January 2025.

This post focuses specifically on the school psychologist responses from both surveys. You can explore the full, interactive dataset from the Spring 2025 survey here:

What’s Changed in Six Months?

Theme	OSPA Winter ’24–25	Spring ’25 Survey	What’s Changed?
Any AI use at work (past 6 mo)	69% used AI; 31% had not	79% used AI; 21% had not	10 percentage point drop in “never-users”
Frequency of work use	Weekly 29% Daily 9%	Weekly 26% Daily 18%	Daily users have doubled; weekly use holds steady

What This Suggests

1. AI is becoming more normalized.
   In just half a year, the percentage of school psychologists who hadn’t used AI at work dropped from nearly one-third to just over one-fifth. AI use is no longer experimental or isolated—it’s becoming part of everyday professional routines.

2. Use is getting more frequent.
   While weekly use held steady, daily use doubled. This suggests not just increased adoption, but deeper integration—practitioners are finding reliable, repeatable use cases that support their work.

3. This shift is happening organically.
   Despite rising use, only a small percentage (just over 5%) report that their employer has a formal AI policy—unchanged from winter. This indicates that growth is being driven bottom-up by practitioners, not top-down by mandates.

In future posts I’ll slice the data by SLPs, OTs, and PTs. For now, let me know in the comments or via LinkedIn what you want unpacked next—and if you’re curious, dive into the full interactive tables here. The AI wave is already here; our job is to make sure we ride it responsibly.