New York\u2019s schools are seeing more student engagement and increased teaching efficiency as a result of the state\u2019s new bell-to-bell ban on cellphones in the classroom, according to a survey released Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
According to the survey, which was distributed to November and received more than 350 responses from school administrators, 92% of respondents said the transition to the policy, implemented at the beginning of this academic school year, went smoothly. It also found 83% of respondents reported more positive classrooms and better student engagement, and 75% reported an improvement in teachers\u2019 ability to teach effectively.<\/p>\n
The governor\u2019s office said the survey included feedback from a principal in the Finger Lakes that said \u201cthis has been a great initiative. The state mandate coupled with district autonomy over how to implement \u2014 i.e. storage method and consequences for infraction \u2014\u00a0 is important.\u201d<\/p>\n
A district administrator in the North Country said the policy \u201chas resulted in so many positives for our students, specifically during classes and lunch. Students are making eye contact with adults and peers, they’re organizing games that involve thinking and problem solving, and they’re engaging with one another instead of their phones. These are all hard skills that develop during school and are vital in the workforce later in life. I could not be happier for our students, staff and our school community.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur kids are finding greater success in the classroom when they\u2019re focused on learning, not scrolling,\u201d Hochul, who pushed for a bell-to-bell policy, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The bell-to-bell ban was negotiated as part of the state budget passed by lawmakers in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s schools are seeing more student engagement and increased teaching efficiency as a result of the state\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[203,109,116,128,113,256,257,67,199,270,9,24,49,12,112,63,87,115,129,131,130,27],"class_list":["post-57686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-education","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-bronx","tag-buffalo","tag-capital-region","tag-central-ny","tag-education","tag-hudson-valley","tag-luke-parsnow","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-rochester","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}