Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity:
​A Toolkit for Secondary Schools

Welcome to SEE's toolkit to support secondary school academic
integrity committees in Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity.
Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity: A Tool Kit for Secondary Schools provides school leaders and teachers strategies and tools that support the development of an ethical learning community and provides the following:
  • A research-based approach for schools and communities to make academic integrity a priority,
  • Planning templates, resources and strategies to form an Academic Integrity Committee to advance student and faculty awareness and commitment to academic integrity,
  • Classroom activities to help students and teachers affirm reasons to practice integrity and resist cheating,
  • A discussion of plagiarism and strategies to prevent it,
  • ​Activities on reproducible handouts. 
AIC conducting Integrity Pledgedrive as described in Toolkit.
Every middle and high school should have a committee dedicated to monitoring and supporting a school culture of integrity.  This Toolkit​ is an indispensible resource for that committee.

​"If we don't want a society of cheaters, schools and parents will have to do much more to deliberately teach integrity to our young. Wangaard and Stephens give us dozens of practical tools for tackling that crucial task."  Dr. Thomas Lickona

"Wangaard and Stephens have provided us with a valuable resource...They have provided programs for both teachers and institutions and pointed out the need for both parents and students to step up and be a part of the solution." Dr. Don McCabe

Research studies note approximately 95% of public high school students participate in some form of academic cheating during the average school year. High schools are in critical need of leaders who will act to reverse this trend. School leaders can take steps to support authentic teaching, learning, assessment and a culture that encourages ethical citizenship. The Toolkit was created to provide clear strategic steps for school leaders in support of academic integrity and to resist cheating.
​​Ethics in action creates character