Dr. Angela Duckworth

Like that's so much more fun and sustainable than like getting your own sneakers on just for yourself on a Saturday morning.

Yes, that is an important part of the situation that didn't exist when I was growing up, but now does.

So talk to me about what you're finding and what you think we need to know.

I'm running this study.

It's the first national study of school cell phone policies.

So think, you know, your local elementary school, your local middle school, or your local high school.

Well, chances are they have a policy, right?

How are students allowed to keep their phones?

And when are they allowed to use them?

And what my collaborators and I, because I believe in teams, never do anything like this on my own.

There's a big team of scientists, including me.

And what we're doing is we're trying to get literally every teacher in the country to answer a five-minute survey.

I know that sounds crazy.

like a moonshot mail, and it is.

But if a teacher comes to phonesandfocus.org, what they will find is a questionnaire written by and for teachers.

And it asks you, what is your school's cell phone policy?

Are you a bell-to-bell school?

Are you a school that allows kids to use it during breaks?

Tell us where students are allowed to use their phones.

Do they have to keep them in their hallway locker?