The Demand Side of Alternative Education Products
Survey results show there is potentially a robust market for learning pods, or similar arrangements such as microschools, hybrid homeschools, and homeschool cooperatives.
The Promise and Challenges of Pandemic Innovation in High Schools
This report summarizes what we observed from a survey of New England high schools as they navigated the uncertainty of the pandemic.
Crisis Breeds Innovation: Pandemic Pods and the Future of Education
This report offers the first in-depth look at families’ and educators’ experiences with pandemic pods.
Finding teachers and bus drivers is a big problem, but a different staffing challenge is looming in school districts
The American School District Panel surveyed school districts nationwide to better understand their staffing challenges in the pandemic’s third school year.
Student Support That Meets the Moment: The Need for Clarity and Rigor in SEL
As stress and disruption have intensified for students over the past two years due to the pandemic, so has interest in and spending on social-emotional learning (SEL) in public education. Also mounting in some places is confusion about what SEL is and a lack of clarity about how, exactly, to implement SEL in sustainable, effective […]
How districts can get serious about career-relevant learning, even in the midst of a pandemic
To be successful, new career pathways must include strategies for overcoming hard-wired habits, schedules, outcome metrics, and course offerings all focused on college prep.
Notes from the Field: How students with disabilities experienced the challenges of remote learning
As systems figure out how to recover, schools need to think beyond their usual approaches, such as simply increasing service minutes to help students catch up.
“Creativity requires freedom”: What will it take to create space within our education system to think and design creatively?
How do we help schools prevent “back to normal” inertia and fuel change?
Pods in Action: Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Cleveland came into the pandemic with a history of collaboration among civic organizations and schools.
Pods in Action: Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
During the pandemic, HPNC staff supervised students’ online learning and provided social experiences that were designed to mimic those that students would experience in school in a normal year.