Students are responsible for:
- Recognizing that the process of learning is often more important than the final product.
- Making sure all their academic work is their own.
- Citing sources appropriately and following guidelines for use of AI or other tools.
- Following teacher-created steps, such as drafts, content organizers, notes, etc. to document the process of their learning, even if not summatively assessed.
- Following all assignments-specific instructions related to representing their own thinking and crediting that of others.
- Asking for assistance if unclear on what constitutes appropriate use of tools and resources.
- Staying up to date on school work and asking for assistance if they feel they are behind.
Students are responsible for intentional and unintentional acts of academic misconduct and reporting incidents of academic misconduct.
Teachers are responsible for:
- Setting clear expectations for each assignment and reviewing academic integrity expectations each semester with reminders before major summative work.
- Teaching subject-specific processes for citation, collaboration, and evaluation of sources.
- Reviewing how to use digital tools appropriately and within the guidelines of an assignment.
- Using tools such as turnitin, Google Docs revision history, etc. to ensure authentic student work.
- Reporting all incidents of academic misconduct to administration and parents.
The school is responsible for:
- Creating advisory lessons to review academic integrity with all students each year, including detailed outreach to parents and collection of student and parent signatures on the academic integrity contract.
- Entering all reported incidents of misconduct into a student’s record and notifying the student’s counselor, the National Honor Society and school related programs.
- Providing opportunities for teachers to share best practices in academic integrity and subject-specific citation information.
- Including questions related to academic integrity in teacher recommendation packets.
- Providing colleges and universities with honest information around a student’s integrity, including sharing with colleges when malpractice occurs.
Parents are responsible for:
- Recognizing that the process of learning is often more important than the final product.
- Upholding our school’s academic integrity protocols.
- Helping students manage time and responsibilities so they do not overload themselves.
- Avoiding providing direct assistance to students in their assignment creating, writing, or editing.
- Signing and upholding the academic integrity contract annually.
When misconduct is suspected it is the student's responsibility to authenticate their work. This may include students demonstrating their process, resources used and/or an oral defense of their work.
