Flex Learning Logistics Project
FLEX LEARNING LOGISTICS PROJECT
(Formerly known as the Hybrid Logistics Project)
A project about individualizing learning through AI calendaring.
Learning can be more flexible in both time and space for any teacher, any school.
Flex learning is defined as the ability to customize learner pace and place. The student and teacher can participate in lessons or entire courses face-to-face, online, or in hybrid classrooms, any mix of modalities, using the power of the Internet and advanced technologies.
Time and space are humanized with algorithmic rather than linear schedules to flex to the true diversity of teaching and learning needs.
Teachers are leveraged for their core professional skills – actual teaching. When not doing live teaching, they roam as students study independently. A Hi-Flex School with all teachers participating and a rearrangement of how spaces are used will free up even more teacher time to roam to help individuals pacing behind others.
How the core AI works to calendar and move students to have a class meeting and then on to more study and the next class in a course based on pace – individually or in cohorts based on the value set by the teacher (1 up to 100 per cohort).
How a Teacher’s Day might work carrying multiple units across several courses.
Flex Learning Logistics is an answer to:
- The nationwide teacher shortage.
- Student attrition to alternatives.
- Chronic student absenteeism.
- Learning loss and general lack of achievement.
- Student social-emotional issues.
- The need to leverage more teacher humanity, especially versus converging AI.
- The inequity of normalization-by-age in all subjects, increasingly criticized by the present generation seeing complete customization and logistics in other industries.
- The relevancy of edtech as a dynamic for learning through better logistics.
- The inflexibility of time and space in traditional learning.
Just for Teachers or Scheduled Flextime or Fully Hi-Flex Schools
…and the entire Sector
Teachers can break their large roster into cohorts for core learning, project-based learning and cross-curricular learning.
Schools can use their already partitioned master schedules with flextime to offer students individually paced learning within that time. This is ideal for electives and remedial learning.
Alternative schools, including full online schools, can use hi-flex master schedules which give a framework for school days while also allowing overlays of individualized schedules for every individual – teachers and students. Small schools managing a breadth of ages and learning levels can ensure live teaching is calendared appropriate to each learner.
Gig teachers and substitutes can be easily plugged into school schedules to take over whole courses. Gig teachers can also offer their own courses which can accrue students to points and automatically schedule the next class, and the next, and so forth.
What does the Project Do?
The Project works with teachers and education leaders on the vision’s practical utilities.
We also encourage schools and districts to contact our underwriters who are familiar with the Project and can help define their parts of the transformation.
Underwriters support the Project by thought leadership contributions to the working architecture of technology and change which can be different for every school.
Get Started
Get a demo of the AI or just log-in to Knowstory and play with the unique calendaring features.
Get a briefing about how to work with the AI unique to your needs. Contact us.
To become an Underwriter. Contact us.
References & Research
Time AI for Schools https://issuu.com/learningcounsel/docs/time_ai_for_schools-flipbook-2
What’s really the Future of Education? https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/whats-really-the-future-of-education-school-ai-calendaring/
K12 Horizon Room mic session featuring Karla Burkholder, Director of Technology, Schertz Cibolo Universal City ISD https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/video-articles/what-are-hybrid-logistics-and-hyflex-models-for-schools/
Video Predictions Panel with Senator Howard Stephenson, UT, Anthony Padrnos, Exec. Dir. Of Technology, Osseao Area Schools, MN, and Andrew Kim, Dir. Of research Programs and Outreach, Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute https://thelearningcounsel.com/past-events/predictions-panel-open-mic/
Podcast with Drew Hinds, Exec. Dir. Of Technology Services, Huntington beach City School District, CA https://thelearningcounsel.com/podcast/conversation-about-hybrid-logistics/
Video with Felicia Rattray, Founder and President, Permission to Succeed Education Center https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/video-articles/what-you-should-know-about-the-hybrid-logistics-project/
Video of Chris Knutsen, Superintenent, Florence Unified School District, AZ https://thelearningcounsel.com/past-events/phoenix-az-educator-guest-keynote-becoming-human-alongside-tech/
Video Panel Discussion with Matt Yeager, Asst. Superintendent of Technology, Garland ISD, TX; Dr. Robin Stout, Sr. Director, Digital Learning Department, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, TX; Dr. Mike Mattingly, Associate Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction, Denton ISD, TX https://thelearningcounsel.com/past-events/learning-leadership-symposium-dallas-tx-administrator-panel/
Video Panel Discussion with Shana Loring, Executive Director of Teaching & Learning and Secondary Education, Little Rock School District, AR; Dr. Jeremy S. Owoh, Superintendent, Jacksonville North Pulaski School District, AR; Dr. Eric Saunders, Asst. Superintendent for District Support, Arkansas Department of Education; Dr. Torrye Hooper, Deputy Superintendent, North Little Rock School District, AR https://thelearningcounsel.com/past-events/learning-leadership-symposium-little-rock-administrator-panel/
Video Panel Discussion with Dr. Royd Darrington, Assistant Superintendent, Juab SD, UT; Dr. Ryan Hansen, Director of Digital Learning, Davis SD, UT: Dr. Jill Gildea, Superintendent, Park City SD, UT; https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/video-articles/salt-lake-city-educator-panel-leading-the-learning-matrix/
School Logistics for New Models https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/school-logistics-for-new-models/
The Case for Hybrid Logistics to Solve Equity – Part 1 https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/for-vendors/case-hybrid-logistics-solve-inequity/
The Case for Hybrid Logistics to Solve Equity – Part 2 https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/for-vendors/case-hybrid-logistics-solve-inequity-part-2-letting-humans-be-human-0/
Responses to School Pressures https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/responses-to-school-pressures/
A Schooling Metamorphosis that's not What You Think https://thelearningcounsel.com/articles/a-schooling-metamorphosis-thats-not-what-you-think/
See under Research: Special Reports
Other News Sources for Review
Why the Kids in My School Move from Class to Class — as Young as Kindergarten
It’s been more than three years since the pandemic upended schools, but students are still living with the consequences. The continuous stream of news highlighting low achievement, stalled recovery efforts and chronic absenteeism is mind-boggling. Schools must fight to regain what’s been lost and help students regain their academic footing. https://apple.news/AXavS5W0ERNOcUmI2lhJmZA
Schools Could Lose 136,000 Teaching Jobs when Federal COVID Funds Run Out
Objectively speaking, it’s a weird time to be talking about layoffs in schools. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2021 had the fewest layoffs in public education in the last two decades. Last year was just a bit higher, and so far 2023 is tracking about the same. https://apple.news/Ag7xtAptrR_ONNuGTDBOuSg
PVHS Embraces New Rotating Drop Schedule and Flex Learning Period for Enhanced Student Experience
It puts kids to sleep — but teachers keep lecturing anyway. Here’s what to do about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/07/11/it-puts-kids-to-sleep-but-teachers-keep-lecturing-anyway-heres-what-to-do-about-it/
Students Think Lectures Are Best, But Research Suggests They’re Wrong: A study reveals students prefer low-effort learning strategies—like listening to lectures—despite doing better with active learning. https://www.edutopia.org/article/students-think-lectures-are-best-research-suggests-theyre-wrong/
Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821936116
Lectures aren't just boring, they're Ineffective, too, study finds: "Active learning" boosts grades, reduces failure rates in undergraduate STEM classes, concludes major review https://www.science.org/content/article/lectures-arent-just-boring-theyre-ineffective-too-study-finds
The Learning Pyramid https://www.educationcorner.com/the-learning-pyramid.html