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Academic Catalog 
Volume 2024 2024-2025 Article 13 
7-1-2024 
Academic Calendars 
Saint Mary's College of California 
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Academic Calendar 2024–2025 - Semester System (4-1-4) 
Graduate and Undergraduate Programs 
 
 
Summer Term 2024 
May 27, 2024 Memorial Day (No classes) 
May 28, 2024 First Official Day of Summer Term 
May 28, 2024 First Day of Undergrad Summer Session 1 
May 28, 2024 Special Drop/Add Period for Grad Kines Colloquium 
May 28-29, 2024 Undergrad Summer Session 1 Drop/Add Period 
May 28–June 2, 2024 Summer Term Graduate Programs Drop/Add Period 
June 19, 2024 Juneteenth Holiday (No classes) 
June 23, 2024 Undergrad Summer Session 1 Withdrawal Deadline 
July 4, 2024 Independence Day Holiday (No classes) 
July 5, 2024 Last Day of Undergrad Summer Session 1 
July 8, 2024 First Day of Undergrad Summer Session 2 
July 8-9, 2024 Undergrad Summer Session 2 Drop/Add Period 
July 14, 2024 Grades Due for Undergrad Summer Session 1 
August 4, 2024 Undergrad Summer Session 2 Withdrawal Deadline 
August 5, 2024 Incomplete Grades Due for UG Summer Session 1 
August 16, 2024 Last Day of Undergrad Summer Session 2 
August 18, 2024 Last Official Day of Summer Term 
August 25, 2024 Grades Due for Undergrad Summer Session 2 
August 25, 2024 Summer Term Graduate Programs Grades Due 
September 15, 2024 Incomplete Grades Due for Undergrad Summer Session 2 
September 18, 2024 Incomplete Grades Due for Summer Term Grad Programs 
  
Academic Calendar 2024–2025 - Semester System (4-1-4) 
Graduate and Undergraduate Programs (continued) 
 
 
 
Fall Term 2024 
August 26, 2024 First Official Day of Fall Term 
August 26–September 8, 2024 Drop/Add Period 
September 2, 2024 Labor Day Holiday (No classes) 
September 8, 2024 Fall Undergraduate Overload Registration Forms Due 
September 23 2024 Undergraduate Travel Jan Term Registration 
October 7, 2024 Graduate January Term Registration Begins 
October 7-10, 2024 Undergraduate On-Campus Jan Term Registration Period 
October 7-11, 2024 Undergraduate Midterm Exam Period 
October 15, 2024 Fall Census Date 
October 17-18, 2024 Undergraduate Midterm Holiday (No undergrad classes) 
October 20, 2024 Undergraduate Midterm Grades Due (if applicable) 
October 28-November 8, 2024 Undergraduate Advising Period 
November 10, 2024 
Deadline to Withdrawal Without Academic Penalty 
Deadline to Submit Leave of Absence 
Pass/Fail Deadline (if applicable) 
November 11, 2024 Veterans Day (Classes held) 
November 11-14, 2024 Spring 2025 Registration Begins 
November 18, 2024 Spring Undergraduate Overload Registration Begins 
November 25– December 1, 2024 Thanksgiving Recess (No classes) 
December 6, 2024 Last Day of Fall Undergraduate Classes 
December 9-12, 2024 Fall Undergraduate Finals Week 
December 15, 2024 Last Official Day of Fall Term 
December 22, 2024 Fall Term Final Grades Due 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Academic Calendar 2024–2025 - Semester System (4-1-4) 
Graduate and Undergraduate Programs (continued) 
 
 
 
    January Term 2025 
January 3, 2025 First Official Day of January Term 
January 3-6, 2025 Undergraduate Jan Term Drop/Add Period 
January 6-12, 2025 Graduate January Term Drop/Add Period 
January 15, 2025 Incomplete Fall Grades Due 
January 19, 2025 Pass/Fail Deadline (if applicable) 
January 19, 2025 Withdrawal Without Academic Penalty Deadline 
January 20, 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday (No classes) 
January 24, 2025 Last Day of Undergraduate Jan Term Classes 
January 26, 2025 Last Official Day of January Term (if applicable) 
January 25- February 2, 2025 Post Jan Term Break (No undergrad classes) 
February 2, 2025 January Term Grades Due 
February 26, 2025 Incomplete January Term Grades Due 
 
 
Spring Term 2025 
February 3, 2025 First Official Day of Spring Term 
February 3-16, 2025 Drop/Add Period 
February 16, 2025 Spring Undergraduate Overload Registration Forms Due 
February 21, 2025 Summer 2025 Registration Begins 
March 1, 2025 Commencement Application Deadline 
March 15, 2025 Spring Census Date 
March 17-21, 2025 Undergraduate Midterm Exam Period 
March 30, 2025 Undergraduate Midterm Grades Due (if applicable) 
March 31-April 6, 2025 Spring Break (No undergraduate classes) 
April 14 - April 25, 2025 Undergraduate Advising Period 
April 18, 2025 Good Friday (No classes) 
April 21, 2025 Easter Monday (No classes) 
April 27, 2025 
Withdrawal Without Academic Penalty Deadline 
Deadline to Submit Leave of Absence 
Pass/Fail Deadline (if applicable) 
April 28 - May 1, 2025 Fall 2025 Registration Begins 
May 5, 2025 Fall Undergraduate Overload Registration Begins 
May 16, 2025 Last Day of Spring Undergraduate Classes 
May 19- May 25, 2025 Spring Undergraduate Finals Week 
May 24, 2025 Undergraduate Commencement 
Academic Calendar 2024–2025 - Semester System (4-1-4) 
Graduate and Undergraduate Programs (continued) 
 
 
 
May 25, 2025 Graduate and Professional Studies Commencement 
May 25, 2025 Last Official Day of Spring Term 
June 1, 2025 Spring Term Final Grades Due 
June 25, 2025 Incomplete Spring Term Grades Due 
 


Academic Calendars

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Lunch

Knapp, Kerri Pike

Martin, Alicia

Dowd, Lauren

January 31, 2024
Kerri Knapp | Lauren Dowd | Alicia Martin
AI: Time to
Learn & Play
bit.ly/HSLW24-aiSlides:
bit.ly/jam-smc-24
Introductions
Please have four or five people
per table join Jamboard using
the link below. Follow the
instructions to introduce
yourselves to your tablemates &
on Jamboard. 
Is it AI?
Can you separate the real from the artificially intelligent? In a
world saturated with AI-enhanced content, distinguishing
between authentic and artificial has become increasingly
challenging. Take this quiz to test your ability to spot the AI
content amidst the real deal. 
Learn together about the
ethics of AI and how
Teacher Librarians fit into
the AI movement 
in education.
Our session’s objective:
Slides: bit.ly/HSLW24-ai
Topic 1:
ETHICS 
OF AI

It is up to the teacher’s discretion whether or not to
allow AI to be used on projects. 
Students can only be held accountable if the teacher
frontloads and makes it CLEAR what is and is not
acceptable. 
Questions to consider:
 What’s ok? What’s cheating? Grade level differences?1.
 For what work? Under what circumstances?2.
 Where do you draw the line for your students?3.
 At what point is it student’s work and no longer AI?4.
How do we share expectations effectively?5.
What is cheating?
Academic Dishonesty?
College Board AI Policy
PD Activity:
 Take 5 minutes and scan the handout.1.
 Highlight/identify things that appeal to you
as a librarian/ classroom teacher. 
2.
 How can this document help us to set
expectations regarding AI?
3.
What we can do as TLs to help teachers and
students use AI ethically?
 Where do you get your information?a.
 Is this accurate information?b.
 How current is your platform?c.
 Is this information biased?d.
 How do I know if your answer is biased?e.
 Can you provide your sources?f.
 What should I be careful about when I’m
using you?
g.
 Anything else you want to try... h.
 1. Pick any AI tool
you want (ChatGPT,
Bing, Bard, pi.ai,
Claude, etc.).
2. Ask it the following questions, one
at a time, in the same “conversation”:
 Have conversations with
students about AI use.
What we can do as TLs to help teachers
and students use AI ethically?
Check out this blog post for great
discussion-based lesson ideas!
Teach students to cite 
AI correctly.
Check out the next two slides to learn
how to cite AI in MLA format!
Check out the Style
Guide for more info!
The MLA Style Center has an extensive list of examples for citing AI. The explain:
The MLA’s method for citing sources uses a template of core elements—standardized criteria that writers can use to evaluate sources and
create works-cited-list entries based on that evaluation. That new technologies like ChatGPT emerge is a key reason why the MLA has
adopted this approach to citation—to give writers flexibility to apply the style when they encounter new types of sources. In what follows,
we offer recommendations for citing generative AI, defined as a tool that “can analyze or summarize content from a huge set of information,
including web pages, books and other writing available on the internet, and use that data to create original new content” (Weed). 
You should
cite a generative AI tool whenever you paraphrase, quote, or incorporate into your own work any content (whether text, image, data, or
other) that was created by it 
acknowledge all functional uses of the tool (like editing your prose or translating words) in a note, your text, or another suitable location 
take care to vet the secondary sources it cites (see example 5 below for more details)
And keep in mind: the MLA template of core elements is meant to provide flexibility in citation. So if you 
find a rationale to modify these recommendations in your own citations, we encourage you to do so.
Teach students to cite AI
Apologies for such a dense slide. Love you. 
Grammarly has a
helpful blog post
for more info.
APA seems to be less clear. Currently, there’s a definitive way to cite ChatGPT, but that’s about it. 
They note an interesting point:
“Unfortunately, the results of a ChatGPT “chat” are not retrievable by other readers, and although
nonretrievable data or quotations in APA Style papers are usually cited as personal communications, with
ChatGPT-generated text there is no person communicating. Quoting ChatGPT’s text from a chat session is
therefore more like sharing an algorithm’s output; thus, credit the author of the algorithm with a
reference list entry and the corresponding in-text citation.”
Teach students to cite AI
HOW TEACHER LIBRARIANS
FIT INTO THE AI MOVEMENT
District Level | School Site | Individual Roles
Topic 2:
DISTRICT LEVEL:
AI GUIDING
PRINCIPLES- 
WHAT’S YOUR
PROCESS BEEN LIKE?
If your school/district is at the “What’s that?!” or “In
the Works...” stages, check out this too: AI Guidance
for Schools for guidance! It’s what SRVUSD used as
a foundational tool. 
(It’s a lot, btw.) 
WHAT’S THAT?!
IN THE WORKS...
ALREADY DONE!
DRAFT of SRVUSD’s Guiding
Principles for AI Use
Questions for Discussion/Jamboard:
Where is your district/school at in the
AI policy creation process? Please share
on Jamboard slide 3.
1.
How might district AI guiding principles
support teachers?
2.
Does your district/school have a policy?
If so, can you link it on the Jamboard
slide 4?
3.
SCHOOL SITE:
WHERE ARE TLS
FITTING INTO THE
AI MOVEMENT AT
OUR SCHOOL SITES?
AI TOOL EXPERTS
TEACHING ABOUT AI
MODELING AI ETHICS
Psst! Check out  this PD slide deck we created for
teachers to show how AI can support their
instruction: Explore AI for Reading & Research
What AI Tool(s) do you recommend?1.
What have been your experiences so
far with AI at your site? Share away!
2.
What are you hearing from your
classroom teachers at your site about
AI? How can we help support as TLs?
3.
Add to Jamboard (slide 5) if you have any
links/ ideas to share with the whole group!
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
ON THE JAMBOARD, RESPOND TO ONE OR
MORE QUESTIONS... 
INDIVIDUAL
ROLES: 
HOW DOES AI
HELP US WITH
OUR WORKLOAD
AS TLS?
LESSON PLANS
BOOK TALKS
DISPLAY IDEAS
Psst! Check out Kerri’s lesson... Navigating Breaking
News (created with Google Bard)
Ideas for using AI as a TL:
Think of AI as your assistant to help you...
Create book talks
Plan library displays
Develop lesson plans
Share at your tables and add to Jamboard
(slide 6) if you have any suggestions based
on your experience of leveraging AI to
accomplish a TL task!
SANDBOX
TIME
BRISK 
Use these tutorial
videos to learn
more.
(2 week trial available)
Sandbox Time
Explore an AI tool or resource that
piques your interest!
DIFFIT
Use this guide Alicia
shared with her
staff to learn more!
(60 day trial available)
CHAT FOR SCHOOLS
Check out this
tutorial video to
learn more!
(Free trial available)
ED TECH BLOG
Written by teacher
Eric Curtis with
loads of ideas &
insights on AI.
Canva
Adobe
AI SNAPSHOTS
Resource with 180
AI warmups for
different subject
areas.
AI ALTER EGO
Use Adobe or
Canva. 
See Kerri’s Alter Ego examples above
with this prompt: “Create a creature that
is a fusion of Basset Hound and Otter
with Peach Fur and loves to read.” 
WHAT ELSE?
Share tools/
resources at your
tables and on
Jamboard (slide 7)
MAKE BOOK TALKS
Check out this step-
by-step guide to
make book talks
with AI.
Kerri Knapp | Lauren Dowd | Alicia Martin
kknapp@srvusd.net 
ldowd@srvusd.net
amartin@srvsd.net
Thank you!









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