SAFE stands for Student Accountability Focused Equity

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Multi-tiered Safe Pouch's lockable phone pouch implementations incorporate PBIS, MTSS, Equity, and Skinner's Behavioral Theories. There are many ways to implement the pouches based on schools' demographics, sizes, and grade levels. 

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Real-time Quick Unlocking for Accommodations, Emergencies, or Daily Dismissal: Schools can provide each teacher with a magnet to facilitate real-time unlocking of Tier 1 pouches as needed, supporting the safety and diverse needs of parents and students.

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Consistent Consequences and Expectations:

1. Any student caught having their devices (phones, earbuds, smartwatch) may have them confiscated and must be picked up by their parents after school. 

2. Students who have damaged or lost their Blue Safe Pouches must borrow the school's Tier 2 (Blue or Orange) pouches and return them daily to the Front Office until they have paid for repair or replacement. 

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Reduce Costs: We offer parents the exact volume pricing, allowing them to purchase a pouch for their child to personalize and use for many years. It's like a daily Yearbook, but it's a Pouchbook. 

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Simplest, Scalable, and Sustainable Implementation (Check out a pouch for students)

1. Check out each student a Blue Safe Pouch like a Chromebook, where students need to take care of and bring to school daily.

Arrival: Students lock up their devices, and their first-period teacher double-checks through a hole in a pouch. Teachers may call the parents of students who claimed they don't have a phone for confirmation.

Dismissal (teachers don't have a magnet): Last-period teachers double the number of students' pouches for damages or loss to report and provide support.  Students go to the nearby unlocking station throughout the school to unlock their pouches. 

Dismissal (all teachers have a magnet): Last-period teachers double-check students' pouches and unlock their students. Bonus: Teachers can provide real-time unlocking for emergencies, accommodations, and after-school activities, thereby reducing administrators' workload (parents and students love this option). 

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Pouches Remain in Schools Implementation

Preparation and Arrival:  Number all the Blue Safe Pouches and divide them into containers for different stations.  A staff member or volunteer at a station locks up students' devices as they enter the school. (Larger schools require more stations). First-period teachers double-check their students' pouches through a hole in the pouch.

Dismissal (Most Critical):

Option 1 (Teachers unlock): All teachers need to have a magnet, so they double-check students' pouches and unlock them to collect the pouches, which they will return to the Front Office after school. For a larger school, consider placing nearby collection boxes with sign-in log sheets. Even if a teacher forgot, they can still bring their pouches to the front Office in the morning. 

Option 2 (Unlocking Stations — least students accountable): Students go to nearby unlocking stations to unlock and return their pouches. Because it is impossible to know which pouch belongs to each student, you are likely to have students damage their pouches after school. 

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Limited Budget: Use for Interventions only.

Preparation: Number all the Orange Safe Pouches and place them in the Main Office.

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Enforce Consequences:* Any student caught with their devices out will have their device locked up in an Orange Safe Pouch for the rest of the day or for multiple days, depending on the frequency of the offense.

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Dismissal:** Students must return the pouches to the Main Office at the end of each school day.