Court cases
Stakeholder rights
Classroom practices
Recommendations for teachers
100

A document that is deemed necessary in order to search a student's cell phone contents, as decided by the US Supreme Court in Riley v. California (2014).

What is a warrant?

100

This is the stakeholder whose responsibility it is to know and follow the school's cell phone policy.

Who is the student?

100

This is the action teachers can take if they catch a student using a cell phone during a test (Koch v. Adams, 2010).

What is confiscate?

100

Teachers should stay current on best practices for integrating this into teaching.

What is technology?

200

The nonprofit union that protects civil liberties and challenged the Oak Harbor School District's policy (2010) on searching student's cell phones for minor offenses.

What is the ACLU?

200

This article of the U.S. Constitution provides students the right to privacy of information on cell phones unless there is "reasonable suspicion" of wrongdoing.

What is the Fourth Amendment?

200

These must be established in classrooms, in accordance with school policy, to ensure student clarity and compliance regarding cell phone use.

What are (cell phone use) rules?

200

A device to store and load cell phones with energy that allows teachers to monitor cell phones while providing a service for students.

What is a charging station?

300

The decade the US Supreme Court established that schools must have "reasonable suspicion" to search students and their belongings, ensuring the extent of the search was related to its purpose and not "excessively intrusive."

What are the 1980s (1984)?

300

These stakeholders have the right to advocate for exceptions to cell phone policies if there are health and safety needs involved.

Who are parents?

300

This is the phrase used to refer to cell phone storage in a classroom, which is synonymous with finding a spot for your car.

What is (cell phone) parking?

300

Teachers can establish this self-assessment strategy so students can discreetly signal requests to use their cell phone as a tool to look up unfamiliar words or concepts.

What is the Traffic Light (self-assessment) system/method?

400

The case that ruled accessing a student's text messages through a third party phone did not violate 4th Amendment Rights.

a.) Washington v. Bowman (2021) 

b.) G.C. v. Owensboro Public Schools (2013)

c.) Gallimore v. Henrico County School Bd (VA 2014)

d.) N.N. v. Tunkhannock Area School Dist (M.D.Pa., 2011)

What is "Washington v. Bowman"?

400

This stakeholder is not liable for searching a student's cell phone without a warrant or student's consent due to an investigation of alleged threats made by the student (Jackson et al. v. McCurry et al., 2019).

What is the school administration?

400

This is one action a school might take after confiscating a cell phone and documenting a policy violation.

What is policy assessment/revision/modification?