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Angela Duckworth

@angeladuckw

Professor at @Penn. Author of Grit. Co-host of @NSQ_Show. Co-founder of @thecharacterlab.

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Educators: Your voice matters. 📚📱 Take 5 minutes to help shape cellphone policies that work in real classrooms. ➡️ phonesinfocus.org #PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #TeachersOfX

Educators: Your voice matters. 📚📱
Take 5 minutes to help shape cellphone policies that work in real classrooms. ➡️ phonesinfocus.org
#PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #TeachersOfX
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🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from Dillon School District Four in South Carolina! 🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing! #PhonesInFocus #EdResearch #TeacherVoices

🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from <a href="/DillonDistrict4/">Dillon School District Four</a> in South Carolina!

🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing!

#PhonesInFocus #EdResearch #TeacherVoices
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📱 School cell phone policies AREN’T based on data? We're changing that. Phones In Focus—first national survey on which policies ACTUALLY work. 5-min survey at phonesinfocus.org 💰 Win $500 prizes 🔬 Snapshot of current results upon completion! #TagATeacher you know! Our

📱 School cell phone policies AREN’T based on data? We're changing that.

Phones In Focus—first national survey on which policies ACTUALLY work.

5-min survey at phonesinfocus.org
💰 Win $500 prizes
🔬 Snapshot of current results upon completion!

#TagATeacher you know! Our
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Educators—we need your voice! 📣 How are student phones managed at your school? Take 5 mins to share your experience at phonesinfocus.org 📱 Your input = real policy change. You could win $500 for you + $500 for your school 💰 #PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #TeachersOfX

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“It’s about giving educators a voice in the debate.” Take 5 minutes to share how your school manages student phones 👉 phonesinfocus.org Your input = better policies. You could also win $500 for you + $500 for your school! #PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #TeachersOfX

“It’s about giving educators a voice in the debate.”

Take 5 minutes to share how your school manages student phones 👉 phonesinfocus.org

Your input = better policies.

You could also win $500 for you + $500 for your school!

#PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #TeachersOfX
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🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from OLHS in Virginia!  🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the confidential phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing!  #PhonesInFocus #EdResearch

🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from  <a href="/OceanLakesHS/">OLHS</a>  in Virginia! 

🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the confidential phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing! 

#PhonesInFocus #EdResearch
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It’s #TeacherAppreciationWeek 🍎 Thank you, educators—especially those navigating phones in the classroom daily. Got 5 mins? Tell us how phones are handled at your school 👉 phonesinfocus.org Your voice = smarter policy. #PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #ClassroomRealTalk

It’s #TeacherAppreciationWeek 🍎

Thank you, educators—especially those navigating phones in the classroom daily.

Got 5 mins? Tell us how phones are handled at your school 👉 phonesinfocus.org

Your voice = smarter policy.

#PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #ClassroomRealTalk
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🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from Ripley Middle School in Tennessee! 🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing! #PhonesInFocus #EdResearch #TeacherVoices #TagATeacher

🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from <a href="/ripley_middle/">Ripley Middle School</a> in Tennessee!

🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing!

#PhonesInFocus #EdResearch #TeacherVoices #TagATeacher
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📱 Public school teachers: How are phones handled in your classroom? Banned? Pouched? Free-for-all? We’re gathering real educator input to shape better school phone policies. Take the 5-min survey 👉 phonesinfocus.org #PhonesInFocus #TeacherTwitter #EdChat

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📱 Should phones be allowed in school? Teachers—your voice matters. Take the 5-min #PhonesInFocus survey & help shape smarter school policies. 👉 phonesinfocus.org #EdPolicy #TeacherTok #BackToSchool #EducationMatters #ClassroomTalk

📱 Should phones be allowed in school?
Teachers—your voice matters.

Take the 5-min #PhonesInFocus survey &amp; help shape smarter school policies.

👉 phonesinfocus.org
 
#EdPolicy #TeacherTok #BackToSchool #EducationMatters #ClassroomTalk
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In the age of AI, there is a paradox: students need their teachers more, not less. My commencement address to the awesome graduates of Penn GSE today makes the case: youtube.com/watch?v=NZLno1…

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📱 Teachers—what should schools do about cell phones? We don’t have enough teacher input. But with your help, that can change. I launched Phones in Focus, the first national study of school phone policies—led by educators like you. 🕐 5-min survey 📊 See how your school

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📣 “Phones in Focus is about listening to teachers and learning from what’s really happening in classrooms.” 📱 If you're a teacher, take 5 mins to shape your state’s school phone policies: 👉 phonesinfocus.org #PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #TeacherVoices #BackToSchool

📣 “Phones in Focus is about listening to teachers and learning from what’s really happening in classrooms.”

📱 If you're a teacher, take 5 mins to shape your state’s school phone policies:
👉 phonesinfocus.org

#PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #TeacherVoices #BackToSchool
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🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from Oakland Mills HS in Maryland! 🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing! #PhonesInFocus #EdResearch #TeacherVoices #TagATeacher

🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from <a href="/hcpss_omhs/">Oakland Mills HS</a> in Maryland! 

🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing! 

#PhonesInFocus #EdResearch #TeacherVoices #TagATeacher
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Yo Philly - Super-eminent social scientist will be giving a free talk tonight at 7pm at the Philadelphia Library (on JFK Parkway) on the where and when of crime libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event…

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📱How are phones REALLY impacting student mental health? This #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, we’re asking educators to share what they see every day in schools. Take 5-mins to join the national conversation 👉 phonesinfocus.org #PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #StudentWellbeing

📱How are phones REALLY impacting student mental health?

This #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, we’re asking educators to share what they see every day in schools.

Take 5-mins to join the national conversation 👉 phonesinfocus.org

#PhonesInFocus #EdPolicy #StudentWellbeing
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If you go back far enough in your family tree, you discover that you, too, are an immigrant... And if you think hard enough about what makes this country great, you realize that our success depends on welcoming gritty strivers nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/…

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🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from Queen Anne's County High School in Maryland! 🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing! #PhonesInFocus #EdResearch

🎉 Congrats to this week’s raffle winner from Queen Anne's County High School in Maryland!

🏫📚 TEACHERS: take the phonesinfocus.org survey to help shape policy and see how your school compares PLUS be eligible for our next drawing!

#PhonesInFocus #EdResearch
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In the age of AI, what can teachers say to their students? "You need me anyway. So much of the grit required to do hard things now that are good for you later comes from wanting to make our mentors proud." In my commencement address to 2025 Penn GSE graduates, I argue that

In the age of AI, what can teachers say to their students?

"You need me anyway. So much of the grit required to do hard things now that are good for you later comes from wanting to make our mentors proud."

In my commencement address to 2025 <a href="/PennGSE/">Penn GSE</a> graduates, I argue that