Ensuring that all students have equal access to learning may be a challenge in some districts, but in the Marinette School District, it is guaranteed. Since 2015, the district has used a systematic process for designing, organizing, delivering and measuring what and how students are taught, resulting in what education experts call a Guaranteed and Viable curriculum.

Finding the answer to a math problem is one thing. Explaining how you got the answer is something else again.

But it is a crucial part of the learning process and this year staff were able to use a new tool to help students get there. Teachers have been using Seesaw, an online learning management system, to engage students in math through methods not available in a traditional classroom set-up.