create students to not learn any new information and create them to get into bad habits for the future this problem in peter's township high school was solved solved by enforcing the honor code to more students in forcing up by many students have started doing their own homework and paying attention in school furthermore the academic honor code has been preventing the act of cheating in school the honor code is a system to have kids adapt to the real world so they can understand the concept that have that they have to work on their own if they want a full credit in turn it is university website it states as its core and the academic honor code must be based on trust because trust is the bond for forms among all members of the community it cannot exist independently or in a vacuum thus it is essential about all members of the community conduct themselves in a way that examples integrity in this quoted as saying that the honor code once really look that comes back to the trust between students and the faculty by having the honor code being enforced this year hopefully the number of students cheating on tests and decreases  college schools handbook it's dated students and faculty are all validated to ensure its success the community pledge of personal academic intended integrity has formed a bias for academic conduct this institution assumes that all students possesses a tribute to you implied by intellectual honesty in this statement it is explaining how academics honor code any anything they are just writing down stuff not going through the net and understanding how answers is correct they do their own homework and the student's own understand the conflict they are learning and they might get worse and do the test on this then students who spend their time on doing homework on are good mainly in forces and forced to have students complete their own work in rice's university was cited states allow maximum freedom freedom for students under grading and graduate in the comp plies chin of all academic work and do ensure the integrity that all work this is one of the main reasons schools schools throughout the united states are being the academic on a code to their school if students start doing their own work then they will start to understand on the homework and do better in school therefore the honor code has brought students to be to be understanding that doing their own work would get them further in life and opening up for him of somewhere else in conclusion the honor code throughout the united states is present preventing the a academic integrity and is helping students adapting to the real world by doing this on their own the honor code will be a great way to have students start obeying the rules of academic and thank you for joining me today absolutely so how has the honor code have like how is it health care township this year i think it's brought to focus an issue that we've been discussing for the last few years you know and that is what is academic integrity what is cheating because i think there's a lot of confusion among students among faculty about what causes our students to do what they do what students interpret is cheating and so it has kind of by defining exactly what constitutes academic dishonesty and what cheating is it's really helped bring a focus to that so why have you decided to bring it to this year like why did you like bring on a kid this year  great question actually a committee was formed and so it came out of committee work and there were actually students on the committee teachers there was a school board member and administrators and we really started just having a discussion about what we're seeing in the classroom what students are experiencing we heard from the students you know that they feel overstressed sometimes overworked and that causes them to make decisions maybe they wouldn't otherwise make and so we really looked at what the problem was and what are some possible things we could do to  come up with a solution for it and from that working the p t a honor code so do you think the students care about like act like cheating on test and like i think students are probably tell you they don't but i do think they care i think you know the desire to do well is what causes students to to cheat and to students want to do well and they do want to learn and know what they're studying there are things that sometimes get in the way of that which leads us down a path of academic dishonesty so i think that kids do care and us giving them some tools to use to help them do better what will help them in the long run so essentially like enforced it this year has you seem like a change in cheating i think there's a focus on it has it decreased i hope but i don't have data to say it has or hasn't yet but i think that more kids are talking about it more students are talking to their teachers about it so they're clarifying if they're unsure if an assignment can be done collaboratively now that they know they're also communicating when they're feeling overstressed so i think right now we're starting to see just a shift in culture and then maybe by the end of the year we'll have some data to say whether or not it's made a significant impact so why did you bring it to beat or township i think it was just because a lot of people were talking about it and we felt like that was something we had to have a discussion about the use of technology cellphones has made it very easy for kids to share work for kids to take photos take pictures not photocopies pictures of assignments take pictures of tests that upsets other kids than other kids report it so it was something that we saw somewhat of an increase in with technology and we thought we had to address it is on a code only like in fourth in the high school or marie it is k to twelve so the policies in place k to twelve it may look a little different at the high school because of the nature of the work our kids do compared to the students said mcmurry but it is in place for the entire district and for all of our students so within the next couple of years as kids enter the high school won't be something new to them so if like a student gets caught what i like the consequences for that so for a first offen depending on the severity of it there's a referral to the office parent contact usually the student doesn't get credit for the assignment or maybe gets a zero on the test and that typically is the discipline for  that with a second offense then it increases and it could be you know detention a suspension but again it to pay depends on the severity of it you know because you don't plagiarize let's say an entire paper the consequences for that might be a little bit greater than if just copying homework and not getting credit for that so is it like what the honor code change away a student with byron in the classroom we hope so so we hope that teachers have looked at it as well and thought about some of their own processes in class that maybe have contributed to cheating for example you know having students do a lot of worksheets or a lot of what kids will term is busy  herc if a student knows the content they don't need to keep practicing practicing sometimes and so maybe decreasing that will eliminate you know that desire for kids to try to get something done really quickly and then copy it so it has brought a little bit of a lens of focus on some of the practices we we do and hopefully that will increase kids learning so in the future is there a way like it could be improved somehow i think so i think you know as we continue to focus on it and get feedback from students and teachers will probably make changes to it and time goes on but first we've got to chuck try and see how it works out so do you think this honor code would change the way teachers teach their classes too i think it already has so i think teachers are looking at how much they're refining to students per night they're talking to one another about like when they're having tests and things like that they're looking at their assignments is there any other way you could like anything else he could do to prevent academic integrity instead of the honor code or is i don't know that there is i think it's certainly something that students know not to cheat  what constitutes cheating is something that we have to talk have a conversation about yeah forward the honor code just makes it sort of a universal standard you know this is what we're about this is what we what we believe in and so we're hoping that once that becomes sort of embedded in our culture it will become less of a focus and just something that everybody knows and and what it would be like the teachers responsibilities for this teachers have to monitor the work that they're doing in class if if they suspect a student of cheating they have to investigate it contact home contact the office they have to know and understand the honor code themselves so there is a a  large onus on the dangers to make sure that they are also enforcing it consistently so like i know like to the students have any like important responsibility that they have to follow like like all the rules like so students should be aware of what the honor code is they should be aware that everything that they turn into class needs to be their own work in their own hand if they have if they're unsure if something is allowed to be done with another student or collaboratively then they should seek clarification from the teacher so really it's just knowing and understanding what the policy is so students can look at the student handbook and see the descriptors there's a bull list of things that they should be aware of so unlike the younger schools do you think they cheating happens a lot down there or is it just like not as much as i school i think it depends on the nature of the work and what you define as cheating  so i think younger kids their work is more monitored by teachers like in the classroom especially when they're only you know they're not really traveling from class to class so there's a little bit more time for them to focus on their own work and that's how teachers assess how the their learning i do think it increases as kids go to middle school and high school students get busy with outside things they get jobs and they start to cut corners a little bit and you know i do think that that it increases as they get to the high school  so like since you just like this is a new policy in our school have any like parents call it a view about it and like for like asking about it or incoming ninth graders we shared it with our p t s a parents we've got over ties it was an e mail blast so we really have very few questions about it and we also parents as part of the committee that developed it so i think that you know they feel like they're a little bit they're somewhat owners of it as you know and they share in this because it's something that we're all trying to instill and in students today ok we will be right back we're going to take a commercial very thank you welcome back so how will academic integrity be stopped i don't know that it will be stopped i think that academic integrity is an idea that we're just trying to instill in people if you're referring to academic dishonesty like how will cheating itself be stopped i think it's just bringing awareness to what is happening so how does the honor code relate to  student code of conduct it is part of the student code of conduct so that is something new that was out of this year so it's just another piece of what students need to know and understand about the work that they do here at the high school so does the administrators the teachers and the students so it really is collaboratively that we're all a part of the same process do you think it will have a big impact on our school i do and i'm hopeful that as time goes on  you'll become more and more aware of how important our own learning is and they will be vocal with their teachers when they're feeling stressed and overwhelmed and that they will start to understand that the learning that they do is their own you know when you're copying somebody else's work it's their learning that you're not your own and that's only going to hurt you in the end and the other piece of that is that we want to make sure that students know when they leave the high school those types of of activities academic dishonesty can really cause problems if somebody is used to cheating you know they could struggle in college if they get caught cheating in college they'll get kicked out it could have you know longstanding impact on somebody if it becomes part of who they are and they work in the workplace there they're not honest so it's really just sort of instilling the value so do you see like a difference between students who copy other people's work and students who do their own certainly i mean i think you know we have students who feel very pressured to share their work with others and that's something that came out of our committee work students who said you know somebody will text them and say hey i practice until nine can you send me a copy of you know such and such a worksheet so some of our kids really feel the stress of that you know they don't want to let their friends down but that same time they know what they're doing is wrong and they don't want to do it  but they also don't want to have some stigma of you know not being a friend so i think that there is a value in the work that people do on their own students who are dishonest in their work tend to struggle the most because they they're not learning and they find it sort of snowballs on them you cheat on one thing then you go to cheat on another thing like it just keeps happening and they almost ing themselves into a hole yeah so do you think that like the students will start obeying the honor code i think so i think students have i think that once attention was brought to it students realize that if they don't they could be a much more trouble than maybe in the past so the other thing is you know our teachers are our great people and so they want to help a lot of students out so sometimes in the past you know  they'll catch a kid who's cheated on something and have a conversation with them and they kind of let it go now they have to report that we have to document that because that student might be the nicest kid but might be getting themselves into some trouble and doing that multiple classes and now we can see if there a pattern of behavior that we need to look at and address so what i'm like the students responsibilities whenever they see another kid cheating on a test students can report it and they really should it's an awkward  position to be in but students need to know that we keep that information confidential when we will leave things like that most of the time a student will go to the teacher and say i believe this happened and it could also be to protect themselves you know if you think somebody is cheated off of you you could be just as much of an accomplice like you could also be in trouble so many of the same answer have you so by reporting it at least you're saying look you know i think somebody was copping off my paper i'm not sure and then let the teacher investigate this so what would happen if they say they saw someone cheating and they didn't say anything about it like the teacher knew a teacher may have a conversation without food and it might lead to some parent contact  and some conversation about the what the honor code is and what that means again it goes back to that idea what you said in your opening about trust you know there needs to be trust between the learner and the educator that you know what you're giving me to tell me what you've learned is accurate to what you know because if you don't know it then there might be pieces of of my work as an educator i need to go back and do again so that's the reason we assess students absolute reason we give students homework so that they can practice so that we can see what they're learning and if they're not doing it then we don't know yeah and yeah i can address it so why do you think like academic integrity is so important in like schools and society kind i think society's changed a little bit things move very quickly and there's a lot of pressure on kids to be successful to be more successful than their parents to get into a top schools and so sometimes that pressure will cause people to do things they might not normally do so i think that's one issue i also think technology has just made it really easy to share work which can be a great thing when you're working on something together it can also be a bad thing if it's letting somebody  get away with you know without doing their work and really learning or understanding what they're doing so i think there are some adjustments we just need to make the technology so prevalent so that we know what it means to do our work do you think that like is the policy different from colleges to high schools like our colleges more harsher with it colleges are definitely more harsh with it and actually our honor code we looked at a lot of other high schools and what they had in place and we looked at some colleges as well colleges like a one and done so you know if a student gets caught doing something dishonest in college colleges is done with them there yeah they're removed from the program in a high school that's not the case you know our job is really to educate prepare kids for the future so you know we're going to give students second third fourth chances at it and there might be consequences along the way but there hopefully are some conversations and some supports put in place to help the students so they don't feel like they need to cheat so in the future say like would you ever take away like those opportunities which opportunities like for like facing cheats and then it's their first offense would you just have one offense or a would you keep it the same as it is today i think probably the consequences are going to  remain in effect is the natural consequence of cheating is usually a zero on that assignment we really tank a grade so that's a pretty significant consequence for students so most likely and that's pretty much been universal since i've been here now drawing a lot more attention to it yeah so whose idea mainly was it to bring it to peter's township it was just a collaborative effort teachers  students who were talking about it during executive council and and parents and the school board member so there was a lot of talk so we decided to form a committee as a result so are we like the only we're probably not the only schools like are we one of the schools in this like district area that has like an r and a coed in forest we're definitely not the only thing that has an honor code in force we've made ours very visible and very public so it may be the most visible one out there right now because it's so new but a lot of the other neighboring schools have honor codes in place thank you for joining me today i had a really good time talking with you absolutely for having me thanks for tuning in to the show this is the ed i mean never caught in concrete in the honor code throughout the united states is preventing the act of academic integrity and is helping