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Click here for resources regarding phone-free school days and here for resources on screen time.

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Cell Phone-Free School Day Resources

Books

• Jonathan Haidt - Anxious Generation 

• Emily Weinstein & Carrie James - Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing) 

Podcasts/Presentations

• The Push to Ban Phones in Schools (The Daily podcast)

• As more schools ban cell phones, this is how it’s working at one Colorado school (NPR)

• This is So Awkward: What Jonathan Haidt Gets Right…and Wrong

• How to Feel Alive: What to do about Kids, Smartphones, and Social Media

• Smartphone vs. Smart Kids - Jonathan Haidt Presentation at the 2023 National Summit on Education

More Research

• Transform Your School: The Complete Guide to Going Phone-Free (data & infographics)

• Surgeon General advisory regarding social media

• Cellphones and Devices: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers - Common Sense Media

• Organization for Social Media Safety Phone Time Challenge

• Smartphones in schools roundup - California Partners Project

Screen Time Resources

Books

• UNESCO. (2023). An ed-tech tragedy? Educational technologies and school closures in the COVID-19 pandemic. UNESCO.

• Horvath, J. C. (2024). The digital delusion: How classroom technology harms our kids’ learning—and how to help them thrive again. Oxford University Press.

Articles

• The Economist. (2026, January 22). Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless. https://archive.ph/GnreI

• The New York Times. (2025, November 12). How much screen time is your child getting at school? We asked 350 teachers. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/upshot/teachers-survey-chromebooks-class.html 

• The Wall Street Journal. (2024, October 27). Screens have taken over classrooms. Even students have had enough. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/schools-phone-screens-technology-research-c268bda5?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqeasGUvqRC26U01RjmJslSl-j-m9su4wZCcdUG44LV7XQ9Qhwn8H6UB&gaa_ts=69b9d214&gaa_sig=gPWRQlApmS-OX7t4veyUa5ZVRCZrF9jRnWoIR2K8JzZoTX-QKMBFualADuOVk2OThI3UHz95klbi5_PMA6zmrA%3D%3D 

• The New York Times. (2025, November 16). Laptops in the classroom are lowering test scores. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opinion/laptop-classroom-test-scores.html 

Policy Reports

• American Academy of Pediatrics. (2023). Digital ecosystems, children, and adolescents: Policy statement. Pediatrics, 151(5), e2023063470. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41556917/ 

• UNICEF. (2021). Child protection in digital education. UNICEF. https://www.unicef.org/documents/child-protection-digital-education