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The tools, research, and toolkits we point people to most. Start with an issue page for the full story; come here when you need the source.
Tools & Trackers
6Our own tools for advocates: build a plan, follow the data, track the policies.
EdTech Advocacy Guide
PA Unplugged
Answer a few questions and get a personalized plan for advocating for healthier technology use at your school.
Bell-to-Bell Tracker
PA Unplugged
Which Pennsylvania schools have adopted bell-to-bell phone-free policies.
Legislation Tracker
PA Unplugged
Pennsylvania bills on phones, screens, and kids, updated twice a day.
Parent Survey Dashboard
PA Unplugged
What 1,700+ PA parents say about screens in school.
Parent EdTech Survey
PA Unplugged
Five minutes. Your response feeds the public dashboard.
Educator EdTech Survey
PA Unplugged
For teachers and school staff: how edtech is really used in your classroom.
Phone-Free Schools
4The research and toolkits behind bell-to-bell policies.
Phone-Free Schools State Report Card
The Anxious Generation & partners
Every state's phone policy, graded. PA: Incomplete, bill pending.
Phones in Focus
Angela Duckworth · UPenn
The largest educator survey on school phone policy, 68,000+ responses.
Breaking Down Common Objections
PA Unplugged · PDF
Print it and bring it to your school board meeting.
Phone-Free Schools Movement
phonefreeschoolsmovement.org
National hub with implementation guides and toolkits for parents and schools.
EdTech
3Frameworks and campaigns for evidence-based classroom technology.
Our Point of View on EdTech & AI
PA Unplugged · PDF
The official position statement: 10 points putting learning, health, and human connection first, K-12.
The EdTech Triangle
Everyschool
The research-based framework for healthy classroom tech. Free and open-source.
EdTech Advocacy Tracker
Four Norms
Communities petitioning school boards across the country.
Slow Tech
5Delaying smartphones and keeping childhood real-world first.
Wait Until 8th
waituntil8th.org
The national pledge community for delaying smartphones.
Age of First Smartphone & Mental Wellbeing
Sapien Labs
The later a child gets a smartphone, the better their adult mental health.
Alternative Devices
PA Unplugged
Basic phones, watches, and landlines that keep anyone in the family reachable.
Slow Tech One-Pager
PA Unplugged · PDF
The case for slowing down, on one printable page.
Screen-Free Gift Guide
PA Unplugged
Gift ideas that don't glow, for every age.
Generative AI
3What parents need to know about AI companions and kids.
From Stranger Danger to AI Intimacy
Human Change · Webinar
Psychologist Mitch Prinstein, pediatrician Jenny Radesky, and law professor Gaia Bernstein on attachment hacking and protecting kids from artificial intimacy.
AI Risk Assessments
Common Sense Media
Independent safety ratings of the AI products kids actually use. Social AI companions: unacceptable risk under 18.
Health Advisory: AI and Adolescent Well-Being
American Psychological Association
The APA's dos and don'ts for teens using AI, including as a "therapist."
Keep Learning
3Books, advisories, and organizations worth your time.
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Why the phone-based childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness, and what to do about it.
Surgeon General's Warning on the Harms of Screen Use
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, 2026
The federal advisory that endorses bell-to-bell restrictions, including the 5 Ds of healthy screen use.
Four Norms
fournorms.com
The movement for community norms around phones and childhood. Find or start a local group.
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