MTSS/PBIS & Student Support
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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.…

