Academic Alerts 

An Academic Alert is issued when a student has two or more academic strands that include Limited (LM). An MS Administrator will notify the parents and a meeting will take place with either the Grade Leader, MS Counselor or MS Administration to identify a plan and address the specific areas of concern.

Academic Improvement Plans 

At the end of each quarter, the MS Administration, Counselors and Grade Leaders will determine which students may be placed on an Academic Improvement Plan. Academic Improvement Plans are designed to support students with ongoing academic struggles in one or more of their courses and include specific growth targets and progress monitoring agreements. 

If a student has multiple Emerging (EMG) or Limited (LM) in a particular course or multiple courses, they may be placed on an Academic Improvement Plan at the discretion of the MS Administration.

Improvement Plan Procedures 

MS Administrators will notify parents and set a meeting to discuss ongoing challenges and the stipulations outlined in the specific plan moving forward. Improvement Plans specify the importance of parent-school partnerships and oftentimes include agreed upon check-in points to ensure that student and family responsibilities are being met. Improvement Plans may require in and out of school interventions that are agreed upon by the student, parent and administration.

Academic Integrity Practices & Procedures 

AIS-R expects and requires that students will uphold the highest standards of ethics and academic excellence. The Academic Integrity Practices and Procedures represents our effort to guarantee that students are committed to building and maintaining a learning community of the highest integrity by carrying out academic tasks with honesty in all situations. Academic Integrity includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Plagiarism (i.e., using another person’s ideas or words without giving credit to that person, including direct quotes, paraphrasing, or summarizing, and use of artificial intelligence).

• Copying, by any means, other students’ home learning. Students who are observed in common areas looking at their own and another student’s lab notebook, learning sheet, or any other home learning assignment would be assumed to be in violation of this rule, regardless of the exact wording of their learning. Equally, students submitting assignments with identical phrases in free-response sections would be assumed to have violated the policy

• Allowing one’s home learning to be copied. In this regard, all home learning is considered individual learning unless otherwise stated by the teacher. As such, no student should physically give their home learning to another student. If copying occurs, it will be presumed that the student sharing their home learning, allowed it to be copied

• Using written formulas, hidden reference sheets, notes, codes, or key words on one’s person or objects for use on any test, quiz, presentation, or assignment without prior permission from the teacher; also, carrying such materials with the intention of using them on a test or exam

• Giving answers or questions to another student during or after a test or quiz; receiving answers or questions from a student who is or has already taken a test or quiz. Students engaged in any form of unauthorized communication while in the possession of a test or quiz may be presumed to be in violation of this rule

• Using the Internet, laptop computers, text messaging, phone cameras, device or other modern technology to plagiarize, copy, or share learning with another student including - but not limited to - copying and pasting in whole or in part material from the Internet, purchasing material from the Internet to be submitted as one’s own learning, using a translation program for a world language class, presenting lab data found on the Internet as one’s original learning, using email to share individual home learning assignments

• Taking credit for learning done by someone else (e.g. family members or tutors) including submitting rough drafts or similar ones created by another person

• Presenting invented data as authentic (e.g. lab results for lab activities that have not actually been conducted, information, or cited sources in a 'works cited' or reference page)

• Any other behavior that could be reasonably construed as academic dishonesty, including class-specific expectations.

Note: For cooperative learning: all written assignments are considered to be individual assignments unless otherwise stated by the classroom teacher. Although it is acceptable to talk with classmates, friends, and family members about what you are studying and thinking. Always remember that you are responsible for your own written assignments and you are also responsible if your friends copy your written assignments or if a tutor completes your work for you. 

AIS-R Artificial Intelligence Policy

Latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI) software, such as ChatGPT, that can write sophisticated essay responses have generated a great deal of interest and discussion. AIS-R will not ban the use of AI software as that is not an effective way to deal with innovation. However, the use of AI tools should be in line with the AIS-R's academic integrity policy. 

AIS-R predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) technology will become part of our everyday lives—like spell checkers, translation software and calculators. We, therefore, need to adapt and transform our educational programmes and assessment practices so that students can use these new AI tools ethically and effectively. As this innovation progresses, AIS-R will work to help support their students with how to use these tools ethically in line with our principles of academic integrity. 

Students should be aware that the AIS-R does not regard any work produced—even only in part—by such tools, to be their own. Therefore, as with any quote or material from another source, it must be clear, using the appropriate citation format, that any AI-generated text, image or graph included in a piece of work, has been copied from such software. The software must be credited in the body of the text and appropriately referenced in the bibliography. 

AIS-R expects to update this policy on a regular basis as this, and other innovations, develop.  

Please note: AIS-R AI Policy is guided by and aligned with the policy articulated by the International Baccalaureate Organization.

Reference: Statement from the IB about Chat GPT and Artificial Intellgence

Academic Integrity Violations

All academic integrity violations will be reported to the MS Office. The violation will be recorded internally. 

1st Offense:

• Students will re-do the essential parts of the assessment within a timeframe set by the teacher, and the Grade Leader will record the Academic Honesty violation in PowerSchool.

• Students will be required to meet with the Grade Leader to discuss the importance of academic integrity. The teacher will inform parents of the Academic Honesty violation and cc the Grade Leader and Associate Principal.

• Students will have a reflection session with the teacher, and the Grade Leader.

2nd Offense:

• Students will re-do the essential assessment within a timeframe set by the teacher, and the Grade Leader will record the Academic Honesty violation in PowerSchool.

• Students will be required to meet with the Associate Principal to discuss the importance of academic integrity. The MS Office will inform parents of the Academic Honesty violation.

• Students will write a reflection, review an action plan for academic integrity. 

• Students will attend a break or after school reflection session as designated by the Associate Principal.

3rd Offense:

• Students will re-do the essential assessment within a timeframe set by the teacher, and the Grade Leader will record the Academic Honesty violation in PowerSchool.

• Students may be suspended from co-curricular activities, school trips at the discretion of the Principal. 

• A parent meeting will be scheduled with the MS Administration to discuss ongoing Academic Honesty concerns and the student will be placed on a Behavior Contract to monitor Academic Integrity.

4th Offense: Additional Offenses may result in an invitation to leave AIS-R.

Note: If a student facing an invitation to leave AIS-R for an academic integrity violation has had no violations of academic integrity for at least one full calendar year, the school may choose, at the discretion of school administration, to allow the student to present information to support their ability to continue attending school and/or school-related events.