{"id":75880,"date":"2021-06-25T09:52:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=75880"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T21:20:53","slug":"are-smaller-class-sizes-without-the-pitfalls-possible-pandemic-pods-make-the-case-jochim-pillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/06\/25\/are-smaller-class-sizes-without-the-pitfalls-possible-pandemic-pods-make-the-case-jochim-pillow\/","title":{"rendered":"Are smaller class sizes without the pitfalls possible? Pandemic pods make the case [Jochim &#038; Pillow]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crpe.org\/thelens\/are-smaller-class-sizes-without-pitfalls-possible-pandemic-pods-make-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Are smaller class sizes without the pitfalls possible? Pandemic pods make the case<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from crpe.org by Ashley Jochim and Travis Pillow<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Pandemic pods were borne by necessity as families faced urgent needs for childcare and remote learning support. But they also offer fresh solutions to an age-old education problem: how to dramatically lower class sizes without diluting teacher quality and falling into traps that have snared traditional class size reduction efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">By leveraging pandemic innovations in student support, school systems recovering from the COVID-19 crisis may be able to recreate the high level of individual attention students saw in successful pandemic pods.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>As one pod educator told us: \u201cThis is probably the most professionally satisfied I\u2019ve been in my entire career. . . . Being able to be one-on-one and form relationships with kids. I can tell you every single one of their strengths, I can tell you their weaknesses. . . . I\u2019ve never been able to do that before in my life, except with my own child, and that\u2019s super powerful.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I really appreciated this part too: &#8220;Learning pods brought new adults\u2014including families and community-based organizations who hosted pods\u2014into the process of supporting student learning.&#8221; It&#8217;s even more of a community-based effort&#8230;a new meaning to the use of teams.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are smaller class sizes without the pitfalls possible? Pandemic pods make the case &#8212; from crpe.org by Ashley Jochim and Travis Pillow Excerpt: Pandemic pods were borne by necessity as families faced urgent needs for childcare and remote learning support. 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