{"id":97936,"date":"2026-03-03T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97936"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:48:48","slug":"are-microschools-a-solution-to-falling-public-school-enrollment-one-district-thinks-so-fradette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/03\/03\/are-microschools-a-solution-to-falling-public-school-enrollment-one-district-thinks-so-fradette\/","title":{"rendered":"Are microschools a solution to falling public school enrollment? One district thinks so [Fradette]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/are-microschools-a-solution-to-falling-public-school-enrollment-one-district-thinks-so\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Are microschools a solution to falling public school enrollment? One district thinks so<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by\u00a0Rachel Fradette<br \/>\n<em>In Indiana, a rural school district leader started a network of microschools to help keep students in his schools. The model could spread<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Around the same time, the concept of microschooling was gaining traction nationally. Microschools offer multiage learning environments that focus on personalized, often less-regulated instruction. Popularity grew during the pandemic when families sought learning alternatives in online, hybrid and pod options; an estimated 750,000 to 2 million students\u00a0now attend the schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The schools are typically privately run, but Philhower saw a role for them in his small district. Last year, he won approval from the state\u2019s charter school board to establish the Indiana Microschool Collaborative, which he says will incubate a network of microschools statewide. They will operate as charter schools, meaning they are public but have more flexibility in terms of curricula and other operations than traditional public schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are microschools a solution to falling public school enrollment? One district thinks so &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by\u00a0Rachel Fradette In Indiana, a rural school district leader started a network of microschools to help keep students in his schools. The model could spread Around the same time, the concept of microschooling was gaining traction nationally. Microschools offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,343,347,419,119,46,102,7,838,559,228,87,199,560,66,89,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum","category-education","category-education-reform","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-preferences","category-learning-spaces","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-parents-guardians","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97937,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97936\/revisions\/97937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}