Infinite Scroll – works for default post type/query, how to use w/ custom query?

Hi,

My website has two primary post “types”, regular text blog posts (“posts”) and a custom post type “Lessons” (which uses a custom taxonomy).

Infinte-Scroll works perfect for the regular posts. I just added the following to my functions file, and they were good to go:

/**
 * Add lazy-loading infinite scroll support
 */
if( !function_exists('init_infinite_scroll') ) :
  function init_infinite_scroll() {
    add_theme_support( 'infinite-scroll', array(
      'type'           => 'scroll',
      'container'      => 'content',
      'posts_per_page' => 5,
      'footer_widgets' => false,
      'footer'         => false
    ));
  }
  add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'init_infinite_scroll' );
endif;

However, infinite-scroll does nothing for my custom post type. Below is the code on my page-lessons.php, which is where I need infinite-scroll to work:

<ul id="content" class="small-block-grid-1 medium-block-grid-2 large-block-grid-4">
        <?php do_action('foundationPress_before_content'); ?>

        <?php
          /* if URL query value is a valid category, get all lessons for that category.
         If it is not a valid category (or not category is provided), get ALL lessons. */
          $validCats = ['study-skills', 'time-management', 'math', 'tutoring', 'reading', 'online-learning'];

          // get specific category from query string, else get all categories
          if ( isset($_GET['lc']) && in_array($_GET['lc'], $validCats) ) {
              $terms = $_GET['lc'];
          } else {
              $terms = $validCats;
          }

          $paged = ( get_query_var('paged') ) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
          $args = [
              'post-type'   => 'lesson',
              'post-status' => 'publish',
              'posts_per_page' => 4,
              'paged'       => $paged,
              'tax_query'   => [
                  [
                      'taxonomy' => 'subjects',
                      'field'    => 'slug',
                      'terms'    => $terms
                  ]
              ]
          ];

         ?>

        <?php $lessons = new WP_Query($args); ?>
        <?php if( $lessons->have_posts() ) :  ?>
          <?php while($lessons->have_posts()) : $lessons->the_post(); ?>
            <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'lesson'); ?>
          <?php endwhile; ?>
        <?php else : ?>
          <?php get_template_part('content', 'none') ?>
          <?php do_action('foundationPress_before_pagination') ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
      </ul>
      <?php previous_posts_link( "prev" , $lessons->max_num_pages ); ?>
      <?php next_posts_link( "next" , $lessons->max_num_pages ); ?>

The next and prev links work as expected, and paginate me through my content. However, infinite-scroll does not seem to initialize (does nothing).

How can I get infinite-scroll working with the above code?

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