Part 2 explores how the Luxemburg-Casco School District will maintain academic integrity in student use of Artificial Intelligence tools, along with the many advantages of AI use in education.

The Luxemburg-Casco School District takes academic integrity very seriously, believing that a student’s work should be his or her own.

Whenever Artificial Intelligence (AI) is mentioned in the context of education, there are concerns that the use of AI technology will help students to bypass learning (i.e., to complete assignments).

As it proactively implements AI tools for the benefit of students and staff in the 2025-26 school year, guardrails are in place to ensure that Luxemburg-Casco student learning is not compromised. The district’s chosen AI learning platform, MagicSchool Enterprise, provides the needed safeguards for maintenance of academic integrity.

“MagicSchool Enterprise provides teachers with insight into student inputs and outputs, which allows them to see how students are using the technology,” says L-C School District Director of Technology Scott Waldow. “Its features let teachers lock, pause or monitor activities to ensure that AI is being used as a support rather than as a shortcut. It also can generate scaffolded assignments that require students to explain their reasoning, show work or apply knowledge in new contexts, which makes it harder to rely solely on AI for answers.”

Student benefits include safe and structured opportunities to practice using AI tools for learning, problem-solving and creativity. Through guided activities, students will learn how to ask effective questions, evaluate AI-generated information and apply it responsibly to their academic work.

District leadership believes that AI will increase teacher-student interactions by reducing the amount of time that teachers spend on content creation, planning and grading, which should give them additional time to spend with their students.

Technology in the classroom long has been debated. Years ago, it was the use of calculators. More recently, it was the incorporation of laptops for student use.

“When calculators first came to the classroom, many worried that students would never learn math fundamentals. Instead, over time educators realized that they freed up time for deeper problem-solving and higher-order thinking,” says Sarah Monfils, library media specialist for the high school and middle school who is coordinating the implementation with Waldow. “Similarly, the introduction of technology raised fears of distraction or overreliance, but they became essential for research, collaboration and digital literacy.

“AI will certainly follow the same path. At first, it’s going to feel like a threat to core learning, but with intentional guidance it can shift from being a shortcut to becoming a tool that enhances inquiry, creativity and critical thinking. The key will be in how teachers frame and scaffold its use to ensure that AI supports learning goals rather than replacing them.”

Academic integrity will be maintained, according to Monfils, through assignment design that emphasizes process originality and personal reflection. Students will be required to show drafts, explain their reasoning and connect work to personal experiences.

L-C teachers will be expected to set clear guidelines on appropriate AI use and foster classroom discussions about academic integrity. The goal will be to help students see AI as a support tool rather than as a shortcut, shifting the focus from policing misuse to guiding responsible use.

Amanda Bickerstaff, CEO of AI for Education, believes that there needs to be guidance for the use of AI technology. “What most people think about when it comes to AI adoption in the schools is academic integrity,” she told Stateline in July 2025. “One of the biggest concerns that we’ve seen – and one of the reasons why there’s been a push towards AI guidance, both at the district and state level – is to provide some safety guidelines around responsible use and to create opportunities for people to know what is appropriate.”

There are many advantages to the use of AI in education. These include time savings through automation, the personalization of learning and work, the enhancement of creativity with new ideas, and providing instant access to information and analysis.

Among its limitations, however, are potential biases in its outputs, reliance on the quality of its training data, and the lack of true human judgment.

Waldow expects that AI will become more accurate, context-aware and seamlessly integrate into everyday tools – integrating stronger safeguards for ethics, transparency and privacy – as it evolves and grows. He believes that it will shift from being a curiosity to an essential partner in education, work and problem-solving.

The Luxemburg-Casco School District sees six pillars in the use of AI technology in education. One is the purposeful integration of AI to enhance teaching and learning, not to replace student effort. AI activities will be aligned with learning objectives and standards.

A second is providing student guidance and transparency. That includes an explanation of how AI works and its role in learning, establishing clear rules for when and how students can use AI, and encouragement of students to reflect on AI-generated content and verification of the information.

Another is to promote critical thinking and creativity. This means that assignments should be designed that require reasoning, problem-solving and explanation.

A fourth is to monitor and support responsible use of AI. Student interaction with AI should be tracked with tools that prevent misuse. Activities should be scaffolded to ensure that AI is a support, not a shortcut, and discussions about academic integrity and digital citizenship should be incorporated.

Equity and access – ensuring that all students have access to AI tools and resources – is a fifth pillar. Training for teachers to confidently integrate AI in instruction is essential.

The final piece is continuous evaluation. AI tools should be assessed for bias, accuracy and privacy compliance, and feedback should be gathered from students and teachers to refine AI use.

Privacy and security concerns are taken very seriously, according to Waldow. Guidelines have been established that neither staff or students will enter personally identifiable information in any AI tool. MagicSchool is industry-standard compliant, and its system scrubs any personal information on a nightly basis.

The district has set up a dedicated website on Generative Artificial Intelligence for anyone who would like to learn more about how it will be used, policies for AI use in the classroom, ethics guidelines, privacy, generative AI citation, the role of the teacher and the MagicSchool platform. It can be found at https://luxcascok12wius.finalsite.com/departments/technology/generative-artificial-intelligence.

Part 1 examined the implementation of Artificial Intelligence tools within the Luxemburg-Casco School District starting in the 2025-26 academic year, and how they will benefit students and teachers.

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The Luxemburg-Casco School District serves more than 2,000 Northeast Wisconsin students annually through four schools located on a single campus in Luxemburg: the Primary School (4K-2), Intermediate School (3-6), Middle School (7-8) and High School (9-12). The district maintains a strong tradition of academic and extracurricular excellence while preparing students to thrive in a global community. U.S. News & World Report in 2024 ranked L-C High School as a top 10 high school within the Green Bay metro area. Located between Green Bay, Door County and Lake Michigan, the educational community has been in existence since the early 1900s, with Luxemburg and Casco operating as separate districts until they merged in 1968. More information may be found at http://www.luxcasco.k12.wi.us/home.  “We Are Spartans”