District & Board Leadership
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Missed the Day 1 Launch? Why a Late-Start School Phone Ban Works Even Better with Safe Pouch
By John Nguyen — credentialed classroom teacher (15+ years), founder of Win Elements, and inventor of the Multi-Tiered Safe Pouch® (U.S. Patent No. 10,980,324 B2) Every fall, I hear the same sentence from principals: “We love it — but we missed the window. We’ll launch next August.” I understand where that comes from. And let…
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How Safe Pouch Enhances MTSS, PBIS, and Interventions
The Research Is Clear: A Ban Alone Is Not an Intervention In May 2026, researchers from Stanford, Duke, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania published the largest national study of phone-free school policies ever conducted — roughly 4,600 schools using centralized sealed-pouch bans, published through the National Bureau of Economic Research. The…
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What the strongest school phone ban attendance study found.
Win Elements · Attendance & ADA The intuitive fear is that taking phones away will push families to keep their kids home. The data points the other way — phone-free schools see fewer absences, not more. Here’s the logic, and the evidence, behind the counterintuitive result. By John Nguyen · Public School Teacher, Founder of…
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School Cell Phone Ban Results: Fewer Fights, Fewer Referrals, Fewer Empty Desks
Win Elements · Phone-Free Schools A policy on paper changes very little. The schools seeing real drops in fights, referrals, tardies, and hallway wandering didn’t just write a rule — they physically secured the phones. Here’s what the behavior data actually shows, outcome by outcome, with the sources so you can check the work yourself.…
