Effective School Phone Policies Can Reshape School Culture
How can schools create effective cell phone policies? According to Jennifer Cerny, humanities teacher at Culver Academies and Alliance Senior Teaching Fellow, involving students in the process can help increase buy-in—and support building their decision-making skills!
In an op-ed for SmartBrief, Cerny shares how she used a structured decision-making process and other Decision Education concepts to walk students and administrators through building a school cell phone policy. The result? A policy that earned administrators’ approval and supported students’ goals and values.
Read the full op-ed on SmartBrief to learn more!
Want to bring something like this to your own classroom? Check out our unit, Policy Decisions: Cell Phone Use at School in our Teaching Resource library
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We Urgently Need To Rethink Media Literacy Education–here’s How I Did
October 12, 2026In an article for eSchool News, Deidre Habetler, Computer Science Lab Teacher at William Dever Elementary, details how she reimagined her computer science curriculum to create a new course for her district that helps students practice making thoughtful decisions about technology.
