Suggested AIC Planning Timeline

Year One Implementation Goals

Community	Core Values	Commitments	Curriculum
Organize an Academic Integrity Committee (AIC) to include students, faculty, administration and parents	​​Clarify and articulate connection between school’s core values such as fairness, honesty, responsibility, trust and academic integrity	Sustain an AIC with a written mission, code of conduct and monthly meetings	.
​Recruit student AIC members from National Honor Society or other relevant clubs to support AIC activities. Recruit adult AIC members from faculty, administration and parent community to support AIC activities with representatives from relevant disciplines and clubs	Review and seek administration and school board support to define the school’s mission to include academic integrity as a core value​	Research, write and implement a multiple-year AIC strategic plan	.
.	.	Design and implement a qualitative and quantitative evaluation plan to guide the AIC’s strategic plan	​

​Year Two Implementation Goals

Community	Core Values	​Commitments	Curriculum
Recruit incoming freshmen to AIC with introduction to high school integrity standards in freshman orientation	Clearly connect school integrity policies to school’s core values in variety of school media	Review, revise and gain approval to publish clear policies, procedures and rules for teachers to implement in support of academic integrity	​Create AIC information brochures, flyers, posters, cards, other handouts, videos for school TV network
Establish and maintain current AIC information about mission, projects and recruitment on school Website	Create activities that help students and faculty define academic integrity in light of core values	Obtain administration and school board support to reinforce academic integrity policies	Develop faculty professional development activities to support teacher recognition of classroom procedures and instructional strategies to advance academic integrity
Encourage school and community librarians to publish clear academic integrity messages and citation procedures	Create messages to refute any sub-culture reinforcing non academic performance	​Provide AIC a budget to purchase relevant resources for its mission, stipend chair and maintain membership in professional associations	Administer surveys to promote student body engagement in integrity topics
Engage parents through activities offered at parent associations and orientation meetings	Create messages to refute high-performing students’ rationalizations for academic dishonesty	​Integrate integrity themes into faculty professional development goal statements	​Write articles for school newspaper or Principal’s newsletters and school Webpage
​AIC committee members personally recruit middle school students from middle school honor society	Recommend the hiring of teachers and administrators who will proactively support academic integrity as a core value of education	Create an honor code and/or pledge for students’ to affirm at year end	Seek to integrate integrity themes within summer reading assignments
.	Connect school’s core values to enforcement of integrity policies	.	Publish relevant academic integrity policies, procedures and rules in student handbook, school website and class syllabi
.	.	.	Promote teacher procedures to reduce cheating i.e.—teachers explanation of expectations, use of different test forms, clear limits for group work, Turn-it-in.com
.	.	.	Promote student behaviors to reduce cheating—choice to learn, preparation, seeking appropriate help in timely manner

Year Three Implementation Goals

Community	Core Values	Commitments	Curriculum
Connect integrity messages to mentoring programs	​Find and publish within community positive stories related to academic integrity and the connection to core values	Organize an honor court to adjudicate integrity violations	​Create integrity lessons and activities for homerooms or advisory classes, new student orientations, students facing honor violation penalties
Recruit drama classes or tech (video) classes to produce AIC skits/videos	Design and implement discussion activities that support societies’ need for academic integrity	Seek fair and efficient enforcement of academic integrity policies	Create AIC lessons to integrate into relevant subject areas
​Request community members to address integrity issues during career days or college fairs	.	​Maintain appropriate records of integrity violations	Create an AIC information video or skits and show/perform at school lunches, assemblies, school TV network
Solicit local business community support for AIC budget and note support on Website and publications	.	Provide positive recognition for students/faculty demonstrating academic integrity	Create and present AI lessons for students in middle schools
Maintain dialogue with other schools and relevant professional associations	.	.	​Publish stories and evaluations of school integrity program (newsletters, website, conferences, journals)

Ethics in action creates character