Innovation spotlights: Case studies in high school redesign
Educators nationwide are forging their way in a landscape rocked by pandemic-induced disruptions. Training resources designed to spark new thinking among school staff often feel outdated—especially if they were published before 2020. To address this need, the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University and the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) […]
Black education leaders: Leaving public schools can help save our kids
For Black children, the public education system is like a dirty fish tank. They’re swimming in toxic conditions like discriminatory discipline and low expectations. But before the water can be treated, those students need to be moved to a clean bowl where they can live and breathe. Then, it’s time to clean out the tank. […]
Reinventing education: Following AI and pandemic recovery in 2023
Happy 2023! Did you, like me, take time over the break to play with one of the new artificial intelligence bots? I asked ChatGPT to write a blog in the style of Robin Lake on the topic of helping students recover from the impacts of Covid-19 and related school closures. Here’s what it offered: As […]
Pods in Action: The Oakland REACH
REACH’s story demonstrates the potential for community-based organizations to play a larger role in addressing both current challenges and longstanding iniquities in the public education system.
Use of personalized learning platforms in one pandemic-era microschool: A case study
This paper poses the question of how personalized learning platforms might affect students’ academic, social, and emotional outcomes.
Progress and potential: The innovations of pandemic learning communities led by leaders of color
What seven initiatives led by community leaders of color can teach us about advancing racial justice in K–12 educational spaces.
Pods in Action: The Central Florida Urban League
CFUL opened Whitney M. Young Academy, a microschool designed to meet the individual needs of low-income, African American students.
Pods in Action: The Boston Community Learning Collaborative
A group of community-based organizations that had been working to reimagine education before the pandemic capitalized on a window of opportunity to create new microschool-inspired learning environments for Black and Latino youth.
Pods in Action: Black Mothers Forum
An education advocacy group that responded to the COVID-19 crisis by launching two microschools for Black families in Phoenix, Arizona.
Pods in Action: Neighborhood North
Neighborhood North leaders saw a need to support students at risk of falling behind in school and support families by providing childcare.
