• This model has time and space inflexibility, but parents and students are not necessarily looking for all remote or teacher-less learning.
• Student personalization is constrained by whole group structure and whole-group pace.
• Teaching is still 50% verbal instruction for a screen-centric generation. Teachers’ skills could be better leveraged during the massive teacher shortage expected to continue through 2030.
• Social experiences are a byproduct, not a design element.
• Engagement is not tied to this generation’s biggest drivers.
with auto-cohorting AI calendaring and reorganized tech and teaching.
Individualized & Small Batch Cohorts
MATH
SCIENCE
LANGUAGE
• Schedules are dynamic, not preset. Students have hours of study per subject assigned. Teaching happens in shorter live meetings as systems manage accruing cohorts to curriculum points and calendaring on-demand.
• Personalization of every student’s learning is course and pace-based. Teachers have more roaming time for one-on-one instruction as well.
• Verbal instruction teaching is separated from individual study in time and space with sixty percent of a students’ day in homerooms or remote.
• Social experience is designed into homeroom groupings and personal spaces to give a sense of belonging.
• Engagement is enhanced through the gamification of learning pace beyond the individual subject to the whole of the schooling, which can flex to provide more elective subjects and group projects from time students save in main subjects. Individual or cohort only feedback in the teaching dynamic keeps students focused on learning.
A New Way to Innovate Teaching and Schools
and the Entire Education Sector
Flex Learning Logistics
Using AI to manage the logistics of dynamic time and space use
Continuing school closures, mass attrition to alternative schools as well as homeschooling, plus intractable absenteeism and an epic teacher shortage are pressuring a new structure of schooling to overcome every obstacle. The entire K12 market is essentially seeking its new identity postpandemic and the ongoing evolution of technology.
Spatial-temporal AI, or a new artificial intelligence that manages dynamic calendaring of whole groups, can change schooling structure.
It’s very important to note that teachers struggle with overwhelming amounts of work in most schools. They are pressured to build all lessons to a larger set of academic standards and tighter timeframes with more testing on the curriculum maps, add technology, add personalization, add reporting, and more.
The teaching job is at least ten times what it was only ten years ago. The arena of edtech alone is exhaustingly complex with The average teacher has around four hundred apps, yet students are largely unfamiliar with many that are corporate-like systems with difficult navigation. Students are not even adequately familiar with office suites, being used to only gaming and social media online.
If you add these other dynamics of the present K12 generation doing at least half of their living online and therefore often poor verbal instruction listeners in large groups, shifting demographics with wide variance in culture and languages entering school environments, rising rates of learning disabilities, and a general distrust of public institutions — you find the role of teacher nearly impossible.
Reduce Teacher Load
The number one goal of the vision of the Flex Learning Logistics Project is to help teachers by having them just teach, not everything else that has been added without a thought to the workflow. This just teaching is defined as the moments when they are actively verbalizing instruction to a cohort of students as called for in the course. They are not in front of those same students when they are just doing their reading, writing, working inside courseware, or filling out worksheets. That study time is done separately in homerooms and is typically fifty percent or more of a teacher’s time.
Traditional Class Period Total Time
Learning Divides Class Periods Into:
Saving a teacher at least fifty percent of their time is then leveraged:
• Into multiples of the same class moment in the course sequence by cohorting smaller groups one at a time onto calendars. This provides true personalization but does not dismiss the social aspect or interaction of live teaching — which can be all in-person on campus, from a distance remotely, or any combination.
• By roaming when not in a class meeting to help individuals.
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Steps to accomplish
Cohort Teaching
KALENDAR
INSTRUCTIONS
Plan lessons to divide live-teaching time activity from resources study or student independent work. Set usual time targets for study before each class meeting.
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Plan lessons to divide live-teaching time activity from resources study or student independent work. Set usual time targets for study before each class meeting.
INSTRUCTIONS
INSTRUCTIONS
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Meet form instructions what to study students. Set cohort value send. AI does rest. Students enroll as complete their 1-2-2 Ratio
Cohort Teaching
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Plan lessons to divide live-teaching time activity from resources study or student independent work. Set usual time targets for study before each class meeting.
Set up Meet form with instructions on what to study for students. Set the cohort value and send. AI does the rest.
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Set up Meet form with instructions on what to study for students. Set the cohort value and send. AI does the rest.
INSTRUCTIONS
Students enroll as they complete their study. 1-2-2 Ratio
Set up Meet form with instructions on what to study for students. Set the cohort value and send. AI does the rest.
Ideal Lesson Set-up Ratios Per Week
Students enroll as they complete their study. 1-2-2 Ratio
One 45-minute Class
Two 20-Minute Class
Two 2-5 Minute Check-in
Students enroll as they complete their study.
Ideal Lesson Set-up Ratios Per Week
One 45-minute Class
Two 20-Minute Class
Two 2-5 Minute Check-in
With this 1-2-2 ratio, the disaggregation of to pack up a teachers’ calendar which now periods. Cohort value of 1-3 students for as 6-12 for the longer class times
With this 1-2-2 ratio, the disaggregation of to pack up a teachers’ calendar which now periods. Cohort value of 1-3 students for as 6-12 for the longer class times
Teaching moments calendar as each cohort fills. Set the meets for the room location and/or online conferencing link.
Alternately, sequence into a course by tethering multiple meets inside a course form in a school group. Pull links out to any LMS as needed.
Ideal Lesson Set-up Ratios Per Week between study periods:
One 45-minute Class Meet
Two 20-Minute Class Meets
Two 2-5 Minute Check-in Meets
With this 1-2-2 ratio, the disaggregation of students by pace is less likely to pack up a teachers’ calendar which now has multiple cohorts for class periods. Cohort value of 1-3 students for check-ins, higher values such as 6-12 for the longer class times of 20-45 minutes.
HYBRID LOGISTICS SCHOOLING SCHEMA
Tech Model Architecture
Annual Schedule
Pacing Guides with Academic Standards Units
INSTRUCTIONS
Courses with sequenced lesson steps, each with written instruction, attached/ linked resources & estimated time to complete per step, plus time framing in the AI calendar
frame
Individual Study or Teaching Hours Schedules Assigned
Courses assigned
Testing & Individual Student Pathway Planning
Teachers (gig or course/ courseware-tied remote), Tutors, Course designers, Pathway Planners and Counselors, Testing
Live-led Virtual Excursions
Extra-limital services: IT Services
Financial, Legal, HR
Staging
Delivery & Distribution
Teacher inserts live class meets at selected steps in course frame, adds any other resources
Website, Web Portal, Mobile Apps
Spatial-Temporal
AI Logistics
Single Sign-On / Sovereign Identity Management
Embedded AI (space and student tracking via Internet of Things)
Generative AI, Recommendations Engine AI, Voice AI (extra-limital or embedded in systems, apps, hardware controls) O ce Suites
Extra-limital courses & courseware
Major Framework Systems: SIS, Testing, Facilities Mgmt, Financial Mgmt, HR, Multi-Tiered System of Support Platforms
Cloud or Server Storage for: courseware, discrete content (image, video, texts & links)
Teaching Aid Apps (quizzing, news engagement, games and puzzles, etc.)
Major Framework Systems: LXPS
Student Digital Libraries
Student Study Apps
Student Creativity Apps (arts, coding, music, presentations, other career & tech ed)
Student study schedule (recommended time spent on each subject)
INSTRUCTIONS
Enrollment in step meets in sequence as individual completes steps
AI sets date and time once cohort is full
Class Meets | repeated for subsequent cohorts
AI continues cohort accrual at marked course frame steps, targeting and tracking
Dynamic Space Use
CAMPUS HOMEROOM
Transform Schooling
Flex Learning aims to create a metamorphosis of all schooling through a holistic edtech schema and reimagined teaching and learning dynamics affecting how time, space and curriculum delivery are done. It is “flex” at a different level than old flextime in master schedules — becoming the flexibility long desired by learners and their parents as well as the one-on-one direct instruction time teachers crave.
Its character uses advanced logistics mechanisms so that patterns of teaching and learning can be entirely different.
Flex Learning Logistics creates a new extensible form, not just a model, method or utility on top of a two-hundred-year-old manufacturing-like pattern used by both online and on-campus schools. This extensibility applies to the entire sector being able to share human resources at will with extremely simple mech anisms.
Just the Classroom, A School or Program, a Whole District, a Whole State, the Entire Sector
An infrastructure that allows time and space to become elements of organization that are flexible and on-demand changes everything in education. It can also be applied narrowly or extremely broadly.
Any teacher or institution would need to make a plan for curriculum slightly differently and reorganize their technologies.
Ariana Q.
Getting Started
The Project works with education leaders on how the vision of flex learning logistics would work for their needs. A main thing to know about flex learning logistics is that there is an emphasis on the logic of the flow of materials and the most efficient use of teaching talent. There will need to be some thinking about the lesson plans and the use of space.
Teachers are encouraged to contact us about immediate use in their classroom — the Project will only be working with a limited number of teachers individually.
Schools and districts are encouraged to help themselves and the Project by:
1. Contacting the project underwriters to work with them on their parts of the entire vision. Those foundations must be laid in order to make the new environment work. These underwriters support the Project through thought leadership contributions to the working architecture of technology and change which can be different for every school.
2. Purchasing an Innovation Service from the Project by Learning Counsel or its affiliates to help with laying the foundations and managing the stages of change the institution is comfortable with.
