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✅Cyberbullying & AI Misuse

✅ Bullying & Fights

✅ Classroom Disruptions

✅ Tardy & Chronic Absences

✅ Many Other Issues

Our Stories and Mission


As a chemistry teacher since 2011, I’ve witnessed the negative effects of cell phone misuse, now intensified by AI, on school safety, student intellect, and teacher morale. Programs like PBIS and Restorative Practices, though well-intentioned, lack the tools to identify and correct students’ behaviors early and effectively. Following a tragic bullying incident, I invented the Multi-Tiered Safe Pouch to help schools create a phone-free, equitable, and safer environment. Most importantly, it empowers all staff with the tool to identify and support at-risk students and mediate possible student conflicts early to prevent possible tragedy.

I invented the Multi-Tiered Safe Pouch so that the impacts of the Positive Behavioral Intervention System and Restorative Practices can be achieved.

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Why It’s Challenging to Create Phone-Free Schools?

Inconsistent Enforcement:

"Most schools already have rules regulating student phone use, but they are enforced sporadically" (AP). This indicates a lack of a uniform approach across classrooms and schools, making it difficult to maintain a consistent policy.

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Teacher Burden

One teacher mentioned, "Cellphone use is out of control. By that, I mean that I cannot control it, even in my own classroom" (AP). This underscores the burden placed on teachers to enforce phone policies, detracting from their primary role of educating.

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Varied Policies

"A study last year from Common Sense Media found that 97% of kids use their phones during school hours, and that kids say school cellphone policies vary — often from one classroom to another — and aren’t always enforced" (AP). The lack of a standardized policy across schools and even within the same school complicates efforts to create a phone-free environment.

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Student Resistance:

"Some students say such policies take away their autonomy and cut off their main mode of communication with family and friends" (AP). This resistance from students can make it challenging to implement strict phone bans.

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Parental Concerns:

"Pushback also has come from parents who fear being cut off from their kids if there is a school emergency" (AP). Parents' concerns about being unable to reach their children, especially in emergencies, pose a significant obstacle to phone-free policies.

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News! Earbuds and Smartwatches

The article mentions the next battle against earbuds and smartwatches, indicating that as one form of technology is regulated, another emerges, complicating enforcement efforts.

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News Sources and Credits: [Thestar.com] [DailyjTimes] [caledonianrecord.com] [https://www.kktv.com/]

1:1 Schoolwide Implementation Maximize Impact and Solve Many Other Problems

4 Effective Implementation Options (Total ban is optional) To Enforce a Total Ban, Require Students to Turn Off Their Devices.

All Implementation Strategies Use Tier 2 and Tier 3 Consequences

  • First-period teachers double-check students’ pouches and provide interventions.
  • All teachers and supporting staff need only one Tier 2 Orange Safe Pouch to lock up the devices of rule-breakers. They keep the students’ IDs to give them to the Front Office. This ensures that students return the pouches after school to retrieve their IDs.
  • Lost/Damaged: Parents pay for repair fees of $5 or replacement of $15 Tier 3 Interventions: Administrators confiscate devices of defiant and repeated students, and they require students’ parents to pick them up.

Impactful Incentive to Improve Attendance & Turn Safe Pouch into Daily Rewards

  • School-level Pouch Points: Students arrive on time and follow all Safe Pouch’s expectations and procedures. Students use the points to exchange tickets for school events or privileges.
  • Classroom level Pouch Points: Students arrive on time and follow all Safe Pouch expectations and procedures. Students use the points to exchange Late Pass, Homework Pass, or Retakes. Pro Tips: Actively cross out any unearned dates to prevent students from cheating.

Option 1 – 3 still holds each student accountable for taking care of their pouches daily because all students will pick up a “Good” pouch and return it after school daily.

1 – Teachers return the pouches to the Main Office after school.

Organization and Maintenance: Number and store Tier 1 Pouches in 27-gallon bins for students to pick one up upon arrival. After school, teachers unlock them, collect them, and return them to the bins at the Main Office or Nearby Designated Pick-up Areas. Teachers report students who lost or damaged their pouches to charge parents.

ARRIVAL: At the entrances, students pick up a Tier 1 Blue Safe Pouch from a bin, put their devices inside, and ask staff to lock them up.

DISMISSAL: Last-period teachers unlock Tier 1 Blue Safe Pouches and report students who lost or damaged their pouches. Teachers return the pouches to the bins at the Main Office. If they can’t, they ask a nearby staff. Administrators can have dedicated campus supervisors to pick them up after most students leave school.

2 – Pouches shared among teachers and stored in their classrooms and nearby storages.

Organization and Maintainance: Number and distribute Tier 1 Blue Safe Pouch to all teachers, except those without 1st period, based on their 1st-period class sizes.

ARRIVAL: First-period students Silence their phones, pick up a pouch, and write its number next to their names on the roster. They put their phones, earbuds, and Smartwatch in the pouch and ask the teacher to lock it up. They keep their devices in the locked pouches throughout the day.

DISMISSAL: Last-period teachers unlock Tier 1 Blue Safe Pouches and only report students who lost or damaged their pouches. Teachers complete sharing pouches tasks. Sharing Pouches: After school, teachers without a 1st period give their bags of pouches to designated nearby teachers without a 6th period. Based on their 1st-period numbers, teachers return extra pouches or get more pouches from dedicated nearby storage places in their buildings.

3- Class Set (Require more effort work from teachers between periods)

Organization and Maintainance: Number pouches with the classroom and pouch numbers (Ex: J12-2 – J12-36). Each student is assigned to a number pouch on the roster. Separate the pouches into 3 bins (1-10, 11-20, 21-36).
ARRIVAL: Students enter the classroom, pick up their assigned pouches, and ask a volunteer teacher to lock up their devices before going to their seats.

DISMISSAL: At the end of class, teachers unlock the pouch, and report any students who have damaged the pouches.

4- (Simplest, but Riskiest): Students Take Care Of the Pouches and Bring Them to School Daily

Organization and Responsibility: Number and check out Tier 1 Blue Safe Pouches for students to use until they move to a different school or graduate—like Chromebooks.

ARRIVAL: At the entrances, students put their devices inside their pouches and ask a staff member to lock them up.

DISMISSAL: Last-period teachers unlock Tier 1 Blue Safe Pouches.

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