Coonley Elementary
Chicago, IL | A Four Norms School | School Website
Sharable Link: https://www.fournorms.com/schools/coonley-chicago-il
What Should Parents Do?
Sign onto the #FourNormsChallenge by adding your name to this school’s list.
Complete the Challenge by following the Four Norms Roadmap for Collective Action
Link up with other parents. Share the link to this page to get your school community on board:
https://www.fournorms.com/schools/coonley-chicago-il
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What Should Schools Do?
Ask your school board, administrators, and principals to align with these organizations’ school programs that promote the necessary skills and environments for all children to grow up both physically and mentally healthy. If you are a principal or other school administrator, your voice would be a boost for the overall health of your community. Consider going public with your intentions, then organize accordingly.
Phone-Free Schools
Phone Free Schools Movement has laid out the roadmap, a complete how-to for successfully implementing and enforcing a bell-to-bell phone free policy (Coming July 2024)
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Press Kit for contacting your local news organizations to cover your movement
Engage Four Norms to send a letter and package to your school, complete with signatures, outlining actions the school can take today to reclaim childhood in the real world.
Are you a principal, school board member, or other school administrator?
Parents in this school community have joined the #FourNormsChallenge. That means simply this: They believe, like you do, that if we want children to be present, learn well, make friends, and feel like they belong at school, we should keep smartphones and social media out of the school day for as long as possible. They also believe schools should promote play and independence as a pillar of school culture.
Collective action gives parents a Technology off ramp they don’t have as an individual.
That’s what the #FourNormsChallenge does. When we band together, we flip the cultural norms away from Technology first, and toward Childhood first.
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We’re trapped in a system that everyone hates. Parents are struggling, teachers hate it, and our kids are suffering. Meanwhile Tech Companies are pulling in the most profits in the history of the market on the backs of our attention and engagement. The way out is to raise our voices together, through collective action. That’s what the #FourNormsChallenge does.
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Parents deserve a voice into our cultural norms.. Our mission is 100,000 parents committing to the spirit of the Four Foundational Norms to reclaim childhood in the real world.
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There are already amazing organizations tackling every segment of the Four Foundational Norms for Solving Collective Action Problems introduced by Jonathan Haidt in his groundbreaking book The Anxious Generation. We provide a path forward, making it easy to take those actions.
FAQs
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By far the biggest strain on modern parenthood is Tech related. It’s not the only challenge, but it exacerbates most of the others. Further, Tech platforms are relentless in their pursuit of our attention. This creates a scenario where it’s very difficult for individual parents to thrive. It’s important in this moment to take action together, to reclaim our connection with our children in a digital world.
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Parents of all school-aged children who have concerns about how Technology and Social Media are impacting their family.
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Of course. Visit our How It Works section to find links to learn more about each organization and solution.
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Start here, with the 1st norm, and walk through each one to see more resources and actions to take.
We will be adding more ideas and actions soon. For now, we recommend checking out all of the great organztions listed over on The Anxious Generation website.