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Southwest High School strives to create a learning environment where all students can achieve their personal best.
Southwest High School strives to create a learning environment where all students can achieve their personal best.
Southwest believes that promoting academic honesty is the responsibility of the entire school community. Commitment on the part of the school community will facilitate a healthy respect among students for the value of academic honesty. In such an environment, students will know that teachers, administrators, and parents/guardians will hold them accountable for any act of academic misconduct.
AI + Academic Honesty
AI + Academic Honesty
Artificial Intelligence Policy
In this class, your voice matters. Our focus is on developing your skills as a critical thinker, communicator, and creator. Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools—like ChatGPT—can be powerful, but they should never replace your own ideas, analysis, and creativity.
Overview of Expectations:
Original Work: Your assignments must reflect your own thinking and writing. Generative AI should not produce full drafts of your work.
Permitted Use: You may use AI tools in limited, thoughtful ways—for brainstorming ideas, asking clarifying questions, or exploring examples. If you do, you must acknowledge/cite your use.
Integrity: Submitting AI-generated work as your own is academic dishonesty. If this happens, we will talk first; repeated incidents will lead to loss of credit.
Environmental Impact: Using AI consumes energy. Please be intentional; only use AI when it meaningfully supports your learning, not as a shortcut.
Your Unique Voice: The goal of this course is to help you find, trust, and strengthen your own voice. AI cannot replace the creativity, empathy, and perspective you bring as a writer and thinker.
Classroom Practice: We will spend time together learning how to use AI responsibly—how to question it, critique it, and the option to harness it as a tool—so that you can grow into a principled, reflective communicator both in and beyond the classroom.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a tool that we, as humans, ultimately have agency over. We have a responsibility as learners to evaluate why we might use it, what the implications are, and how to responsibly use it. When using AI in this class, it is expected that:
Your agency as a human being circles around the whole AI process. You are the human who is controlling the technology. You have choice before, during, and after you use AI and it’s important that you engage with your agency.
You are continually reflecting throughout and after the use of AI on how this tool is positively and/or negatively impacting your learning.
You formally disclose and cite your AI use according to MLA guidelines.
If you are using any direct language from AI in the body of your essay, you must use in-text parenthetical citations & note this in your Works Cited page.
In-text parenthetical citation: “Quotation from generative AI” (“Title of Prompt”).
Works Cited page: “Title of Prompt” prompt. Name of AI tool, version of AI tool, Company, Date of chat, URL.
Example: “Response to ‘Explain the symbolism in The Odyssey.’” ChatGPT, OpenAI, 28 Aug. 2025, https://chat.openai.com/.
If you use AI in any part of the process of writing (brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing/revising), you must disclose
Before the Works Cited, include a statement that clearly states the AI tool(s) you used, how you used them, and for what purpose.
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