WHAT IS APLUS+?
APLUS+ is an acronym for the Association
of Personalized Learning Schools & Services.
APLUS+ was founded as an association exclusively
dedicated to the Personalized Learning model of education—a
21st century, leading-edge approach to delivering education
that has evolved through the public charter school movement
in California. Personalized Learning is a distinct educational
model designed to meet the more diverse needs of the 21st
Century K-12 student who seeks or requires a more flexible,
tailored, and individualized approach to learning. Personalized
learning programs have helped tens of thousands of students
in California rediscover hope and purpose in public education
through this more individualized approach. The Personalized
Learning movement and APLUS+ were founded by Jeff Rice,
who has served as a leading advocate in the California
charter school community for the past eleven years. Rice
has worked diligently to establish and expand the Personalized
Learning movement in California, drawing from a professional
background that includes an MBA and more than 20 years
experience in Marketing and Public Relations. Click Here
for Bio on Jeff Rice.
Since its founding in September 2002,
APLUS+ has grown to a membership of more than forty Personalized
Learning charter schools, collectively serving more than
35,000 K-12 students who reside in 40+ counties throughout
California. The APLUS+ Mission is as follows:
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To be the representative voice to advance Personalized
Learning as a distinct and valuable educational model
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To be the vehicle and facilitator for uniting and networking
programs that are dedicated to the Personalized Learning
model, and to high standards of fiscal and operational
accountability and academic excellence
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To advocate, support, and promote the growing benefits
and successes of the Personalized Learning model
and the many schools that embrace itPersonalized
Learning model and the many schools that embrace
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APLUS+ is exclusively dedicated both to
advancing Personalized Learning as a successful and essential
model in public education for the 21st century, and to
representing and supporting high quality Personalized Learning
schools that are committed to academic excellence and to
the highest standards of integrity and accountability.
APLUS+ promotes the value and benefits of the Personalized
Learning model for the growing number of public education
students, who for various reasons, either need or choose
a more flexible alternative approach to the traditional,
full-time classroom based learning model. APLUS+ has become
the recognized voice in California to represent the Personalized
Learning movement in public education.
APLUS+ provides a wide variety of consulting,
community relations, information, networking, and promotional
services and programs to member schools that embrace the
Personalized Learning educational model. APLUS+' services
and programs are designed to support each member school's
educational and operational goals in the following areas
in order of priority:
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Increase/Improve Academic Achievement
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Increase/Improve Operational
Accountability
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Expand Student Learning Choices
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Expand Professional Development
Opportunities
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Maintain Fiscal Sustainability
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