Academic Integrity

What is Academic Integrity?

ICS is a community of learners. One of our highest ideals is ethical practice in learning or Academic Integrity. With this in mind, it is critical that both faculty and students protect and maintain our integrity in academic work. In order to ensure high standards, all students are expected to learn the ethical practices of research and scholarship, both individual and collaborative. An understanding of Academic Integrity, including Academic Misconduct, is crucial to a student’s participation in the MYP and to his or her success at ICS.

This policy includes key concepts, outlines procedures, and provides explanations regarding all matters related to Academic Integrity at ICS. “Academic Integrity” refers to the practice and concept of assuring that all academic work is the product of one’s own thinking, research, creativity, and inquiry and, where it is not, that all sources of information that is not common knowledge are acknowledged according to standard acceptable practices.

Below is the Middle School Handbook for Academic Integrity.