Ep 1: What Is Flex-Based Personalized Learning?

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:27:37 GMT

Every student is unique, so why should every student's path through school look the same? In this first episode of APLUS+ Presents: EVERYTHING Flex-Based Learning, Jeff Rice, founder of APLUS+ (the Association of Personalized Learning Schools and Services), introduces the flex-based personalized learning model and explains why it's becoming more popular among parents and students.

Jeff contrasts the traditional one-size-fits-all classroom, a system designed more than 100 years ago for the industrial age, with a model where students, parents, and teachers build a tailored learning plan together. Students can choose how, what, when, where, and with whom they learn: working ahead in one subject, slowing down in another, and learning at home, at a resource center, or both.

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Chapters

00:00 Welcome and the APLUS+ mission

00:44 Every student is unique

01:50 Many paths to the mountaintop

02:18 The one-size-fits-all classroom

04:01 Choice in practice: how, what, when, where, and with whom

05:21 Putting students in the driver's seat