Resources

Below are links to resources to learn more about the 'why' and the 'how' behind changing school start times:

• Books:
• Generation Sleepless: Why Tweens and Teens Aren't Sleeping Enough and How We Can Help Them by Heather Turgeon MFT, Julie Wright MFT
• The Sleep-Deprived Teen: Why Our Teenagers Are So Tired, and How Parents and Schools Can Help Them Thrive by Lisa L. Lewis

• AAP Policy Statement: School Start Times for Adolescents

• TED Talks:
• Sleep is Your Superpower by Matt Walker
• Why School Should Start Later for Teens by Wendy Troxel

• Let's Sleep: Practical advice to teens to live and sleep better

• Start School Later: Handouts, Posters, Videos and More

• Research:
• Adolescent sleep health and school start times: Setting the research agenda for California and beyond. A research summit summary
• Sleep Deprivation in Adolescents: The Case for Delaying Secondary School Start Times. Report of the Advisory Committee on Later School Start Times at Secondary Schools
• Daytime sleepiness predicts future suicidal behavior: a longitudinal study of adolescents
• Relationships between sleep duration and adolescent depression: a conceptual replication
• Associations of longitudinal sleep trajectories with risky sexual behavior during late adolescence
• Self-reported sleep and circadian characteristics predict alcohol and cannabis use: A longitudinal analysis of the NCANDA Study
• Multi-night sleep restriction impairs long-term retention of factual knowledge in adolescents
• Embracing the school start later movement: adolescent sleep deprivation as a public health and social justice problem
• The impact of COVID-19 related school shutdown on sleep in adolescents: a natural experiment