Fairplay, Phone-Free Schools Movement announce partnership, tools to help remove phones in schools
Fairplay and the Phone-Free Schools Movement (“PFSM”) today announced a partnership aimed at helping K-12 students excel academically and socially by eliminating the harms and pressures caused by phones in schools.
The collaboration between Fairplay, the leading nonprofit committed to helping children thrive in an increasingly commercialized, screen-obsessed culture, and PFSM, the leaders of a growing movement to remove phones from the school day, is kicking off with the release today of the Phone-Free Schools Administrator Toolkit. This free toolkit is a comprehensive guide to help administrators transition to a phone-free environment for the entire school day.
Over the coming months, other offerings will emerge from the partnership, including a toolkit for “ambassadors” — community members who advocate for phone-free schools — and campaigns to aid educators and policymakers in making the change families are clamoring for.
The growing movement for phone-free schools has found that schools can reclaim the educational environment and eliminate the distractions and harms of phones in school, and educators and families are cheering the results.
