year before letting parents choose between in-person and remote learning for the remainder of the semester.
When she tendered her resignation and told her principal of her plans, Newton said, her boss was “not thrilled” but was supportive. The principal said she understood it was a crazy time. that schools develop “learning pods to support academic success [by] making spaces available with the right technology.”For weeks, he has been working with two local groups — the Children’s Service Council, a government group that serves children and families, and United Way of Broward County, a nonprofit that provides social services — to develop a pod system. Under the initiative, students will be grouped in pods of nine.
“I think this will help,” he said. “It’s a unique pod situation, sort of like a combination of child care and after-school programming.”