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Phone-Free Classrooms: A Teacher’s Firsthand Report with Beth Pannenberg (#244)
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- ScreenStrong Families
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- Sep 24, 2025
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Summary
In today’s episode, Melanie sits down with Beth, a high school teacher, to hear her firsthand experience with the new phone-free classroom policy this school year. Beth shares the contrast between last year’s inconsistent approach—where teachers set their own phone rules, leading to confusion and frustration—and this year’s unified, zero-tolerance policy: no phones, headphones, smartwatches, or personal devices from bell to bell. The results have been remarkable. Students are talking and conn...