Fresh insights on flexible scheduling, student success stories, and practical tips for making every minute count.
Making High-Dosage Tutoring Work: The Critical Role of Smart Scheduling
As schools continue to seek effective ways to support student learning, high-dosage tutoring has emerged as one of the most promising interventions...
Unveiling the Student Dashboard
Flex scheduling has revolutionized the way schools structure their day, offering students more autonomy and educators increased flexibility. This flexible time can be before school, after school, a full flex day or a flex period that meets during the school day. But...
Getting Started with Your Flex Time in Your School
Want a flex time but don't know how to get started? This article gives an overview of how to implement a flex block, including what it is used for, how to make time for it, and how to start one in your school. What is a flex block? Flex blocks have been gaining...
Catchy Names for Your Schools Flex Period
The traditional school schedule is evolving, and flex time is becoming a popular way to personalize the learning experience. But with this flexibility comes a question: what do you call it? Remember, the name of the game is...
How Schools Make Time for Flex Periods
As students are struggling with learning loss, stress and overwhelm, many schools are adding a flex time to their schedule to provide extra support to students. This is a dedicated time slot built into the school day for students to focus on their individual needs,...
What to Offer During Flex Period
Schools with a flex period, or flex block, have many options for what to offer. The best part of this flexible scheduling is that the offerings can be adjusted over time. The offerings do not need to be figured out before school starts. Generally, we see offerings...
Anytime Appointments
Did you know that you can use MyFlexLearning for 1/1 appointments? Yes, you can! Appointments can be during flex time OR anytime. That’s why we call them Anytime Appointments. Appointments during the school day can be used for a variety of purposes, including: Senior...
Before, During and After School: Make it Flexible!
Flexible Scheduling is the practice of using time to provide additional benefits to students outside of their traditional class schedules. Many schools are creating this kind of time, whether it be before, during or after the...
Accountability is Key to a Successful Flex Period
Flex periods can be a powerful tool for student intervention, social emotional learning and enrichment. However, without tools to build student accountability and engagement the logistics of your flex period can quickly become an unmanaged mess. Teacher Accountability...
Mid-year Implementation
Whether your school has a flex block already or you are looking to launch a new one, a mid-year implementation is an option that you have. Many schools assume that summer is the best time for technology implementations because of the extra time in the summer and the...