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Skyline Highs pocket-chart policy credited with reducing classroom phone distractions
Summary
Skyline principal Casey Elmore and teacher Casey Warner reported that a school-based cell-phone policy using pocket charts, progressive discipline and attendance-taking by chart has increased engagement; staff said parents were mostly supportive and student responses were mixed but many acknowledged reduced distraction.
Skyline High School leaders told the Ann Arbor board that a school-based cell-phone policy implemented in 2024-25 and continued this year has produced measurable classroom changes. Principal Casey Elmore described the policys core elements: phones placed in labeled pocket charts at the start of class, headphones stored away, attendance taken via the pocket chart, and progressive discipline for repeat noncompliance. "We drafted a policy…
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