Pods in Action: Neighborhood North
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Neighborhood North leaders saw a need to support students at risk of falling behind in school and support families by providing childcare.
Pods in Action: Engaged Detroit
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Engaged Detroit was created to help Black families interested in homeschooling “take control” of their children’s learning.
Equitable Pandemic Learning Pods? A Glimpse of an Emerging Ecosystem
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This working paper maps the ecosystem of organizations needed to support equitable learning pods.
Pandemic Pods and Teaching to the Whole Child: The Role of Parents and Community
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This paper outlines lessons we can draw from the focused implementation of the whole-child approach in pandemic learning communities.
Special Education at a Crossroads: Ensuring Equity and Inclusion for Students with Disabilities
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This brief outlines the ongoing challenges and offers recommendations to reshape how America’s schools serve students with disabilities.
Whack-A-Mole: School Systems Respond to Disrupted Learning in 2021
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This report complements our latest fall 2021 survey research from the American School District Panel with in-depth interviews of leaders on the ground in five school systems.
Pods in Action: African Leadership Group
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The African Leadership Group created a learning pod that in most cases not only helped students keep up but actually improved their academic performance over the 2020–21 school year.
Pods in Action: Community Works
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When school buildings closed in March 2020, Community Works started offering more versatile programming options to meet the needs of their students.
Pods in Action: Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy
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The City of North Las Vegas funded education nonprofit Nevada Action to set up a microschool.
Lessons for Improving Curriculum from the COVID–19 Pandemic
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There have been countless challenges faced by American families with school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the many challenges specifically relating to education has been ensuring children had access to a challenging academic curriculum. Whether children have been educated remotely or in hybrid settings, or whether they have been in a pod or homeschool, […]