When schools closed at the start of the pandemic, some families turned to a workaround known as “learning pods.” They would get together a group of kids, find an instructor – sometimes a parent, ...

Samantha had been a veteran educator for fourteen years, first as a classroom teacher and then a principal, when the pandemic shut down schools. Last year, when she learned about the then-growing ...

Over the past school year, the the Center on Reinventing Public Education has tracked how pandemic learning pods evolved from emergency responses to, in some cases, small, innovative, and personalized ...

DENVER, Colo. -- Jason McBride has been handing out backpacks full of school supplies to the kids in the Denver, Colorado community he grew up in. “Two sets of pencils, erasers, ruler, everything is ...

The board overseeing implementation of the Hope Scholarship for students leaving the public school system is considering how the program might be applied to students in newly-established educational ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thais Perkins is a former non-profit director, but since August she’s collected several new titles including teacher, tech support technician, counselor, lunch maker, recess monitor ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office released a report on Monday, August 7, about the use of learning pods in schools. The audit report highlights several findings.

In June 2021, the Legislature changed that, passing a new state “learning pod” law that cleared the way for public schools to set up their own learning pods. Lawmakers, however, left it to the state ...

Over the course of the 2020 school year, “pandemic pods” became a popular tool of parents as either a supplement to, or replacement for, traditional K-12 schooling. Now, thanks in part to Heritage ...

Emily Robertson, a mom with a first grader in Lacey Township School District, can’t wait to join a learning pod. Displeased with Gov. Phil Murphy’s mask mandate requiring kids to wear face coverings ...

Students enrolled in the pilot program for KaiPod Learning sit with founder Amar Kumar (center). The rise of pandemic learning pods is showing signs that it may have staying power. That momentum is ...