5.4.7 Authentic Work Policy

POLICY TYPE: 5.0 Educational Program Policies \ 5.4 Learning
EFFECTIVE DATE: 2018-10-24	LAST REVISED: 2023-10-24
THIS POLICY APPLIES TO: Contractors – Individuals engaged to provide services under a contract with SelfDesign Learning Foundation Support Providers – Individuals engaged under a contract or agreement with SelfDesign Learning Foundation to provide services for a specific learner Families – Learners and parents(s)/guardian(s) of learners participating in SelfDesign Learning Foundation’s programs Volunteers – Individuals providing goods/services under the terms of an agreement with SelfDesign Learning Foundation Board Members – Members of the Board of Directors for SelfDesign Learning Foundation and the Foundation for SelfDesign (FSD)

Policy Statement

SelfDesign Learning Foundation (SDLF) is committed to and expects honesty from K-12 learners, parents/guardians, and support providers.

Definitions

Plagiarism – is the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own,
including:

Turning in someone else’s work as your own.
Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit.
Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks.
Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation.
Changing words by copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.
Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not.

Policy

SelfDesign Learning Foundation, through educators, will have weekly contact with each learner with respect to the learner’s activities and must ascertain, through questioning and conversation, the validity of learning. Educators are also required to have at least two direct connections per year with each learner and their family, if appropriate, during which educators observe the learner, either in person or in a video conference.

Protocol

In grades 10-12, at the beginning of each course/thematic session, learners are required to fill out the Authentic Work and Tutor Use Declaration Agreement.

Learners who submit plagiarized work for formative and summative assessment will be required to complete the Academic Integrity Challenge to learn more about plagiarism. If subsequent plagiarism occurs the learner will be required to have a meeting with a member of the school principal’s team and may have other restrictions or consequences implemented. In the case where a learner submitted plagiarized work for summative assessment, the learner may not have met the minimum requirements to pass the course. In these situations, incidents will be looked at individually and the learner’s situation and previously completed work will be taken into consideration.

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