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. […]
Pods in Action: KaiPod Learning
A new company sustaining the pandemic pod model offers flexibility to teachers, students and parents.
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.
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.
Pods in Action: Engaged Detroit
Engaged Detroit was created to help Black families interested in homeschooling “take control” of their children’s learning.
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.
