Hi jbaker!

We’re at the tail-end of just such a survey.  We did 3 versions (staff, students, and parents/family). I’m attaching the family version, but we tried to make all three as similar as possible so we could compare results.

We opted to include net promoter questions evaluating current policy, as well as 3 potential versions of a ban:

1. Phones get locked up at beginning of the day, students don’t touch until end of day.
2. Phones get locked up at beginning of period, students don’t touch until end of period.
3. Phones stay turned off or on silent and out of side (in backpacks), but stay in students’ possession.

Separately, we also asked a NPS question about people’s feelings about cell phone use between classes and at lunch.

That allowed for lots of key driver analyses for each individual plan.  Generally, we found that student’s didn’t want their phone use restricted, parents were more mixed, and staff wanted more restrictions, particularly at younger grade levels.  Key Driver Analysis showed a strong correlation on all 3 surveys, but particularly the family survey between the questions, “I am concerned about my student not being reachable during the day” and “I am concerned about my student not having their phone in an emergency situation” and overall ratings of most plans.  Those two questions also represent most of the comments we got on the open-response questions.

Shockingly, we don’t have universal agreement about what we should do!  We don’t have a decision from our board yet, but at a minimum I think we’ve shown some really careful consideration of all stakeholders’ viewpoints and can speak intelligently about why we’re going with a policy that this subset of this group didn’t like.

Hope that helps!

@andrew.bennett85 - this is so helpful! Thank you so much for sharing this information. We appreciate you!

We have just done one to get a baseline of our data and thoughts toward cell phones.  Attached is a zip of the QSF

@Ron_Brown Thank you for sharing!