AI-Assisted K-12 Hiring: interviewstream & Frontline Education Webinar Recap

For schools and districts juggling tight budgets, limited resources, and the constant need to hire top talent, AI has quickly gone from a futuristic concept to a must-have tool.

In our recent webinar with Frontline Education, we looked into how AI is impacting hiring in education — and more importantly, how K-12 districts and organizations can use these tools to their advantage. From saving hours of manual work to improving collaboration between hiring teams, the potential benefits of AI in hiring are hard to ignore.

Missed the live session? No worries — we’ve pulled together the key takeaways for you here. Keep reading to explore some of interviewstream and Frontline Education’s newest AI-powered features and see how they’re helping schools hire smarter and faster, or watch the full webinar here.

The Rise of AI in Hiring

As anyone in the workforce over the last few years can attest, AI isn’t just a trend or a passing fad. It’s already woven into the day-to-day operations of countless organizations, and its role in hiring continues to grow across every industry, including K-12 education.

And the research backs that up: A recent McKinsey study found that 78% of organizations are already using AI in at least one business function — a sharp increase from just 55% a year and a half ago.

For many school districts and boards facing staffing shortages, competitive job markets, and increasing pressure to hire quickly and fairly, AI isn’t just a “nice-to-have” anymore.

How K-12 Hiring Teams Are Using AI Today

So, what does AI actually look like in a school’s hiring process? It’s about giving real people better tools to do their jobs faster, more consistently, and with fewer administrative headaches.

Here are just a few of the ways K-12 organizations are already putting AI to work:

• Using AI to source applicants and surface qualified candidates, including those who might be overlooked in traditional searches.
• Matching candidates by screening resumes using AI tools to help identify candidates for roles based on skills, experience, and qualifications — saving time and reducing manual effort.
• Quickly creating job requisitions, interview questions, emails, and social posts to help communicate with candidates and reduce the administrative load in the hiring process.
• Screening candidates faster with tools that summarize and annotate interview responses.

The result? Less time spent buried in resumes, applications, or on the phone taking notes — and more time building connections with great candidates.

interviewstream’s AI Interview Summary & Confidence Score

At interviewstream, we know hiring in education comes with its own unique challenges. That’s why we’ve designed our AI features specifically to help school boards and districts hire more efficiently without losing human expertise.

Let’s take a closer look at two of our latest AI-powered tools:

AI Interview Summary

Think of this tool as your AI-powered notetaker. After a candidate completes a video interview, our AI generates a clean, easy-to-read summary of their responses. Allowing hiring managers to quickly get up to speed on a candidate’s key points at a glance.

Summaries include:

• An overall summary of the key points and details mentioned in the candidate’s interview
• More detailed question-by-question summaries of each of the candidate’s responses to interview questions
• Key takeaways that are easy to share with others on the hiring team

AI Confidence Score

In the coming months, interviewstream will be launching an additional new feature to AI Interview Summary to grade the accuracy of the interview summaries provided by AI. Once turned on, AI summaries will be generated with a confidence score, a helpful indicator of how closely the AI summaries match with a candidate’s responses.

These confidence scores don’t provide a decision on who to select in the interview process (that decision still belongs to your hiring team); they’re a valuable data point to help give hiring teams confidence in the quality of the interview notes provided. Allow them to more effectively evaluate candidates and foster team collaboration.

Why It Matters for K-12 Hiring Teams

At the end of the day, these tools are all about making life easier for busy hiring teams. Because let’s face it — hiring in education isn’t easy.

By using AI to handle the repetitive, time-consuming parts of the process, schools can:

• Review interviews with more efficiency
• Share insights easily across hiring teams
• Maintain consistency in evaluations
• Focus more energy on building relationships with candidates

AI doesn’t replace people — it empowers them to focus on what matters most.

Early feedback from K-12 hiring teams using interviewstream’s AI tools has been overwhelmingly positive. Here’s why they’re loving new AI tools:

• Faster Review Time: No more rewatching interview recordings to make sure your notes are complete.
• Easy Collaboration: Summaries and scores make it simple to share candidate insights with principals, hiring committees, or HR teams.
• Consistent Evaluation: Every candidate gets a structured and accurate review, helping minimize bias.

Built-In Integration with Frontline Recruiting & Hiring

For schools already using Frontline’s Recruiting & Hiring platform, there’s even better news — interviewstream’s video interviewing tools and AI-powered features are fully integrated directly within the system you’re already using.

That means no jumping between multiple platforms, no extra logins to remember, and no time lost trying to track down candidate data scattered across different tools.

Everything you need to manage your video interviews — from scheduling and recording to reviewing and sharing AI summaries — lives right inside your existing Frontline Recruiting & Hiring workflow.

Here’s what that looks like in action:

• Seamless access to video interviews within Frontline Recruiting & Hiring
• Easy-to-send manual or automated video interview invitations
• All candidate information — including video responses, AI-generated summaries, and interviewer notes — centralized in one place

And just as importantly, it makes the interview experience easier for candidates, too. They can complete interviews on their own time, from any device, while your team can review their responses whenever it fits into your busy schedule.

Beyond Hiring: Creative Ways K-12 Teams Are Using the interviewstream Recruiting & Hiring Integration

While video interviewing is often thought of as a tool just for hiring, many K-12 districts are finding creative ways to use interviewstream far beyond filling open roles. Its flexibility makes it a valuable tool for supporting communication, feedback, and engagement throughout the entire employee lifecycle.

Here are just a few ways schools are using interviewstream to stay connected with staff:

• New Hire Onboarding Check-ins: Give new staff members an easy, structured way to share feedback during their first few weeks.
• Monthly or Quarterly Staff Feedback Surveys: Capture real insights directly from teachers and staff in their own words.
• End-of-Year Reflections: Encourage educators to share their wins, challenges, and ideas for the upcoming year.
• Exit Interviews: Gather candid feedback from departing employees in a comfortable, on demand video format.

Anywhere your team wants to gather consistent, structured input — without adding meetings to already packed calendars — interviewstream’s video tools and AI summaries can help.

Final Takeaways

AI is changing the way school districts and school boards approach recruiting today. And when it’s used thoughtfully, it doesn’t remove human expertise from the hiring process — it enhances it.

With tools like interviewstream’s AI Interview Summaries and AI Confidence Scores, K-12 hiring teams can:

• Save valuable time
• Improve consistency
• Collaborate more easily
• Focus on what matters most — building relationships with great candidates

Plus, with seamless integration into Frontline Recruiting & Hiring, interviewstream is helping schools create a more connected, efficient, and people-first hiring process from start to finish.

Want to see these tools in action or hear directly from K-12 hiring experts? Watch the full webinar recording to catch all the insights — or reach out to our team to learn how interviewstream can help your district or school board hire smarter and faster.

About The Author

Drew Whitehurst is the Director of Marketing, RevOps, and Product Strategy at interviewstream. He's been with the company since 2014 working in client services and marketing. He is an analytical thinker, coffee enthusiast, and hobbyist at heart.