Whack-A-Mole: School Systems Respond to Disrupted Learning in 2021
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
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
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
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
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, […]
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.
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 […]
“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?
