The head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association says the rollout of new policies banning cellphone use in classrooms starting this fall has some teachers confused about how they’ll be expected to follow them.

President Jason Schilling said about two weeks before most kindergarten to Grade 12 students go back to class, it’s unclear why new provincial standards will be in place for Sept. 1, while school divisions have until Jan. 1 to put their own policies and procedures on the books.