Khan Academy Best Practices for High School

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- Hey, everyone, this is
Jeremy with Khan Academy.

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Thanks so much for joining
us on this Friday afternoon,

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or Friday morning, depending

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on where you're calling in from.

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Wherever you're calling in from,

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you're in for a special treat today,

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because we have Matt,

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one of our Khan Academy ambassadors

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from Georgia, calling in
to share his expertise

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on using Khan Academy with high schoolers.

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And while I think Matt
would've been willing

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to offer this at any time,

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I have to give him special
thanks for doing it right now,

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in the midst of this crisis

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because Matt, like myself,

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has two kids running around at home.

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And so Matt is actually taking this call

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from outside his home, just
so he can have some peace

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and quiet to devote to you all today.

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So as a quick reminder, the
way these sessions work,

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is we're gonna get to know
Matt a little bit better.

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Get some of his best tips
for using Kahn Academy

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at the high school level,

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and then once we have that,

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we're gonna open it up
to questions from you,

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right from the audience.

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So if you wanna submit
those questions to Matt,

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just go to the questions
tab of the Go to Webinar

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control panel, and we'll take those

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in the order they're received.

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So any questions, start
submitting those now,

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and we'll take those very soon.

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But before we do, again
another shout to you, Matt,

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for making time in your busy day,

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your busy teaching schedule,
your busy home-front life.

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And to just kick things
off, why don't you tell us

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a little bit about your
background as an educator,

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and how you got started with Kahn.

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- Absolutely.

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I appreciate Kahn Academy for having me,

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and giving me this opportunity

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to share some things with you.

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So, my name is Matt Colbreth.

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I have spent seven years
as a formal educator.

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I have a batchelor degree
from Dalton State College,

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with an education certification.

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I'm about eight weeks out
from having a master's degree

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in math education from Thomas University.

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I spend my first three
years after I graduated

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in Chattanooga Tennessee at a school,

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East Hamilton Middle High school.

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I taught seventh-grade math.

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I also taught eighth-grade algebra,

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and served as the middle
school boy's basketball coach,

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and an assistant high
school basketball coach.

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In 2016, I moved to my current employment

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with Catoosa County schools
in Northwest Georgia.

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I spent my first year
as a traveling teacher

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between two schools, Lakeview
Fort Oglethorpe High School,

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and then Ringgold High School.

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After the first year,
Lakeview Fort Oglethorpe had a

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full-time position available.

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I was a half-time general ed math teacher,

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and a half-time special ed math teacher,

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and that's what I served
for the last three years.

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I taught Algebra I, Algebra
II, Math of Finance,

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Foundations of Algebra.
And at the general ed

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and special ed levels.

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I serve as the assistant
girl's basketball coach,

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and assistant baseball coach.

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I also am the Algebra I team facilitator

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for our PLC group, our
Professional Learning Community.

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And I serve on our response
intervention initiation team.

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We're just now getting our
response intervention program

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kind of kicked off.

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And so I serve on that
team as an active member.

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- Wow.

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Matt, you are a man of many hats.

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- (laughing) Done it for a little while,

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and it's a joy, I mean,
I love being an educator.

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I think it goes back to my, as a child,

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I was one of the older of my cousins,

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and had a large family, close-knit family,

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but I wanted to see my younger siblings,

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my younger cousins,
wanted to see them become

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the best they could be.

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And I still kind of hold
that true to now my students.

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I just kind of carried on
as, I guess, my calling.

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- Very cool.

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Well, I know they need you
more than ever right now.

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So, thanks for all that you're doing.

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And just to sort of dive
into this question using

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Kahn Academy in the midst of all of this,

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how do you normally use Kahn Academy?

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How thank you typically integrate
it into your day-to-day?

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- So, my students usually
see some sort of Kahn Academy

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almost every day, pretty much every day.

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At the beginning of the year,

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I assign them a Mastery Challenge,

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so, with my Algebra I class,

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which is typically what I teach,

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I will assign Algebra I
Mastery, the course mastery,

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usually in early August or September.

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So when I do that, that allows
them to see their progress,

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and allows them to really
work towards a goal.

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And we set bi-weekly goals
to have them achieve that

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course mastery by the end of the year.

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So, I see you're kind of going
through some of the things

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to set up that course mastery

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and once you get everything set up,

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it's really not a hard task,

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but it gives you so many
things to be able to to see

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how well your students are
progressing throughout the year.

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- Yeah, and just sort of explain
for teachers who are coming

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from more of an assignments
mindset to this mastery mindset,

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what is course mastery
and why is it important?

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- So through the course
mastery, it used to be done

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with what they called Missions.
And we've kind of moved

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into the course mastery, but
the idea is that everything,

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especially mathematically,

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everything is built upon each other.

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You have to have good foundations

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before you can begin
building on top of that.

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I've heard Sal say in
some of his TED talks,

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if you're building a house,
you don't have an inspector

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come in and say, "Oh,
well your foundation,

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"it's got 80% passes code.

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"We can start building the first level

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"and the second level."

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Eventually that crashes down.

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So idea of course mastery
is that you work through

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different units and different
lessons, and different levels

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of whatever subject it is, right?

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So if it's for Algebra I,

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it begins with an algebra
foundations piece, unit,

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and you work through that
algebra foundations unit,

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and you gain points for
assignments that you complete,

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and questions that you answer correctly.

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And you continue moving through that unit

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until you've completed it.

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It has some quizzes available in it.

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It has unit tests available for each unit.

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And with that, students
earn points every time

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they complete these with accuracy.

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And they will level up

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and eventually get to that mastery point.

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- Absolutely.

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So basically, what you're setting out

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at the beginning of the
regular school year is,

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"Hey, we have a high bar,

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"not just to get through the textbook,

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"but to master each foundational
skill along the way."

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And Course Mastery kind of
drives them to that high bar.

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Now, let me sort of
switch gears a little bit.

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That's all well and
good if it's September,

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if it's normal times, now that it's April,

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and it's this strange new
world that we're living in,

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if you were just starting
with Kahn Academy

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as a high school teacher today,

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what are the one or two
things that you would do

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just to get a quick win next week?

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Just to get some wind behind your back?

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- Well I think the first
thing that you need to do

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is to be able to set up your classes.

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And so, when you sign in,
when you sign up as a teacher,

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you will see this screen,

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as this is kind of your teacher dashboard.

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And so to set up your class,
we're lucky in Catoosa County

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that we all have different classrooms,

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and so Hahn Academy does sync directly,

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will pull in rosters from Go Classroom.

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And so, all you have to do is
click on the Add New Class,

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and if you have Google
Classroom, you can actually

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import your class directly
from Google Classroom

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and your rosters are automatically
put into Kahn Academy.

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And so you don't have to do a whole lot.

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If you don't have the Google
Classroom already set up,

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then can enter your class name,

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and then you have to add
courses for your class.

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For instance, mine is Algebra I.

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And I do typically go back and maybe add

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like a pre-algebra course to it,

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just so I see those whenever
I make an assignment.

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See those lessons.

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But you can choose
whatever courses you like,

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mathematics, or anything.

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And then to add your
students, like I said,

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for Google Classroom users,
it's very, very simple,

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just connect to your Google Classroom.

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They can also use the class,

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like a share a link with their students.

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And ostensibly click on that link

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and they will automatically be joined.

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I've been using Kahn
Academy for years and years,

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and so when I was doing middle school,

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I would used to create the
student accounts for them.

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Because this was before I had
any sort of Google Classroom.

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And so I would create
the student's accounts,

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put their names in.

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It would give me a user
name and a password.

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And I would share that with the student,

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and that's how they would
get on Kahn Academy.

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- That's great.

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So multiple ways to get started.

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And then just sort of take
this through to the next step.

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Like let's say you've
built out your class,

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you've invited your students,

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what do you do to just
sort of get a little bit

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of expertise under the student's belt?

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- So, the assignments tab,
I do you use quite often.

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So, when you click on the classroom,

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you get into the screen that you're in,

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under the assignments,

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and you click to assign,
it has the entire course,

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every unit, and everything
built underneath that.

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And so, you can assign an entire unit,

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as Jeremy has done here.

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He's clicked on the check mark.

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And you can assign entire units.

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If you don't want the entire unit,

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if you just want to chunk it,

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which is what I typically do,

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you may find a lesson that
will assign a few videos,

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or a few practice assignments.

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Or you may just want to assign
one practice assignment.

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And those are indicated
with the pencil mark

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over on the left-hand side.

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You can click on the assignment
of see what kind of question

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it's actually going to be asking,

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and make sure that that is what you want.

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And one of the great
things, in my opinion,

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that the assignment, the exercise do,

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is generally, I don't
believe there's any exercise

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that has more than seven
or eight questions in it.

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And so it's nothing that is
overwhelming to the student.

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And they're good, quality questions.

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So, you get a good idea of
what your student does know,

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or doesn't know, but it's
not going to take them

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an hour and half to complete.

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So, once you've decided
what you want to assign,

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you click on the Assign button,

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and you have some different options there,

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you can have that each student does

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a different set of questions.

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Most of the questions I've
seen banks of upwards around

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40 and 50 question in each set.

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Or you can have all students
do the same questions.

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There's been a lot of times

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that I have students
do the same questions,

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for the fact that I can have them

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either do that at the end
of class, or for homework,

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something of that nature.

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And then later in the
class, or the next day,

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we can come together.

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And we use their information,

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how they answered those
questions, and we talk about

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why this was a good answer,
why this was a bad answer.

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And it's not just to
give me a number grade

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to put in the grade book.

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- Very cool.

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Go for it, Matt.

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- Oh, I'm sorry.

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So the other great thing
that I like under this screen

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is that under the student's tab,

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you can select to send it to all students,

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but there have been many
times where I've wanted

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to maybe differentiate,

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or some students have
mastered a certain skill,

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and I may only choose a few students,

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two or three students to
send an assignment to.

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And especially, we use this
a lot with our RTI program.

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We use the MAP test,

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and use the way Kahn Academy links to it,

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so there a lot of times
where not every student

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needs that assignment,

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so I will only assign to a few students.

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- Beautiful.

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And you can set your
due date and your time.

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And so it goes out to the students,

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what do the students see?

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Can you talk a little bit
about that experience?

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- Absolutely.

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So if you go back to the top,
or to the teacher dashboard,

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so at your home, you can
click on your user name,

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or your name in the top right-hand corner,

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and it will show you the Learner Home.

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And under Learner Home, that
kind of gives you a view

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of what the students are going to see.

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And when the students
log into Kahn Academy,

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once you have given an assignment,

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or you have given a Course Mastery,

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on the left-hand side,
all of their classes,

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so they can be enrolled
in multiple classes.

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I know our World History
teacher, has just recently

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started using Kahn Academy
quite a bit for his class.

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So beyond the math classroom.

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And their assignments, and
their classes all show up

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on the left-hand side.

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If they have a Course Mastery goal,

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the Course Mastery shows up there.

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Also, the assignment shows up there.

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And if the assignment is past due,

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it shows up under the Past tab.

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If it's still an active assignment,

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Then it would obviously show up under

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the Active Assignment tab.

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- So a student clicks into an assignment,

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and says, Mr. Colbreth
has just assigned to me.

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They see it on their screen.

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How do you typically recommend
that students use this?

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Like, do they just go through in one shot?

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Do they do it multiple times?

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Do they get support?

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- I think this is one
of the toughest things

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to get across to students,

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is using some of the supports
that Kahn Academy offers.

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I started using Kahn Academy
way back when it was just

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YouTube videos, and the videos
are some of the best help

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that I think the students can get.

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If I can get them to use it.

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Whenever they give it their best try,

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and they don't get a question right,

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they can get help.

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And they have either
hints available to them,

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or video content that
is available to them.

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And I'll even tell
students, "If you missed

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"one or two questions, even
if you try it your first time,

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"or you don't try, you just
have no idea what it is,

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"use those videos, use those hints,

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"to help you understand the material."

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They're reluctant to do
that because they don't like

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to get questions wrong.

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But, I tell them, "If you can learn it,

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"then learning it is much more important

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"than one correct answer."

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- Absolutely.

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Definitely lean on Kahn
Academy to give that live,

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real-time feedback if you can't be there

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to give it yourself.

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And then to just sort of
bring it to full circle,

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back to the teacher view,

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We'll take questions from
the audience in one second.

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Once your students have started
to complete these exercises,

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where are you looking

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to sort of understand what's happening?

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- Yeah, so in the classroom,
on the classroom page,

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you have to, under the assignments,

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there's a tab for Scores.

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So you'll click on the Scores tab,

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and it will give you the
scores for each student

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for wherever assignments you have.

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So you can look at that,

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and then if you want to
look at individual reports,

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you can click on the actual
score for that student.

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So you can, when you click on the score,

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it will show you what
questions they've attempted.

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How they answered them.

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Which ones the got correct,
which one they got wrong.

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And I know up for the attempt,

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a lot of times I will look
at their first attempts

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to see how they kind of have
answered it to begin with,

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and what their initial thinking was,

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and then their last attempt is really

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how they completed the question.

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The other place that I have
started recently using,

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and this is fairly new, new to me,

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is under the classroom page,

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is the activity overview.

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And here you can look at how much time

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students are spending on Kahn Academy,

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what skills are they practicing.

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How many skills are they leveling up.

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And you can also look
at individual students.

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Look at really the activities
they're doing on Kahn Academy.

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So when you click on that student's name,

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it will show you a lot
more in-depth information

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about what the student
is doing on Kahn Academy.

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You can also see individual
student assignments

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from that page, and the time
they're spending, as well.

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- That's great.

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So I think that's
probably more than enough

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for a week or two of just getting adjusted

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to the Kahn Academy.

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Let's pause there,

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and analyze sort of the
reality of the situation,

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because we can go on to probably

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three hours of in-depth advanced tips.

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Let's just take the
questions from the audience,

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and see where people's minds are at.

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So, first question is
coming in from Belinda.

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And Belinda asks a
really important question

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that sort of goes beyond the technology.

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"What are your suggesting, Matt,

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"for how to handle progress for students

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"who are not doing assignments,
even over extended periods?

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"I know we are in very,
very unusual times, now,

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"but how would you recommend
handling your student

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"who is just not making any
progress in Kahn Academy?"

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- Well I think one of the
things is the communication

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between the teacher and the student.

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And so during a normal
time, if I see that students

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are not making progress,

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I have a conference with that student.

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I talk with that student.

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And I think there is a,
you know, Kahn Academy

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is not a babysitter.

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And it's not a replacement for me.

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I still have that
relationship with the student.

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And I speak with them to try to motivate,

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find that motivation for
why is this important?

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Why do you need this?

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What kind of correlation
does it have to your lives?

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And now in these times, I
still am trying to find ways

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to communicate with students,

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whether it be through email messages,

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or I use an app, a Remind app,

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that allows me to send
messages via text to students.

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And so, I still try to find
those ways to communicate,

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and really drill down the
importance of the assignment.

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And hopefully, use my
relationship with them

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to drive that forward.

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- Great, great.

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Yeah, I think even in these
extenuating circumstances,

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communication with
students is still the key

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to pretty much all great teaching.

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And even if it's
communication over an app,

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or a video conference, or whatever,

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reaching out beyond just,
"Hey, here's an assignment,"

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it's so important.

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Speaking of that, Sandy
has a question for you

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that kind of extends that question.

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"What if you have students
who are not only struggling

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"with grade-level material,
but actually have big gaps

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"in their foundations?

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"They're already coming
to you in high school

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"many years behind.

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"Is there any opportunity to use Kahn

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to help catch them up?"

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- Absolutely.

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And I'm glad you said that
because one of the great things

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that we have been doing at
LSO that I'm have proud of,

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is our RTI program, our Response
to Intervention program.

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And if you try to research
and find many resources

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on high school RTI programs,
there's not a lot out there.

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We couldn't find any.

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So, Kahn Academy, in a
partnership with the NWEA,

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and MAP testing is one thing
that we have used this year.

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And so, we gave our
students the MAP assessment

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at the beginning of the year,

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which kind of diagnoses and
tells us exact where they're at.

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And we have students all the way down,

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coming into ninth grade,

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all the way down on a fourth
and fifth grade level,

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on certain MAP skills.

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And so we set up little
classes for them during our

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guided studies time, and really
during our flex lunchtime.

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And we use Kahn Academy to
reach back into those fourth

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and fifth grade concepts, and reteach,

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and try to solidify
that, because as we said,

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if you do not have those foundations,

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it's hard to build off it.

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So, we use the data that we
gathered from the MAP test,

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to identify what content
we needed to focus on

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for those students, and
then used Kahn Academy

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to help teach and assess
students on those concepts.

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- I love that.

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It's such a powerful sort of way

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to make sure that each student
is getting what they need

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not just whatever your pacing
guide is telling you today.

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Did you use the Mappers
tool, out of curiosity, Matt?

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- I certainly did.

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So I searched Mappers,
and really it will pop up.

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There it is.

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And so when you go in, if you
classes are already set up,

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you can enter the MAP scores.

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If you have used the MAP test,

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and you enter the MAP scores
for the data that you have,

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for the students that you have,

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and then it will give you a recommendation

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for what concepts those
students need to be working on.

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- Very cool.

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So, just pasting that link into chat box.

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So if anyone is using the MAP
assessment in their school,

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they can definitely
take advantage of that.

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Here's another important
question about differentiation.

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Christina says, "For
special education students

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"at the high school level, how
do you make accommodations?

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"Would you recommend making
special worksheets for them?

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"Pulling these questions
out of Kahn Academy?

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"How do you serve that
audience, in particular?"

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- So, a lot of times I limit
the number of questions,

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the number of assignments
that I do with them.

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We do a lot, really just as a class.

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So we might present questions
up on the board, as a class,

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and then kind of walk
through that all together.

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Not as much as an independent activity.

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I also have a limited use of iPads.

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And one thing I found that a
lot of my students like to do

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is use the iPad because they can touch it,

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and they can draw on it,

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and they can, the Kahn
Academy app allows you

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to use an info tool, and
actually show some work on it.

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And for whatever reason,
it does tend to engage

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the students a little bit more.

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I think that there are
certain accommodations

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that you can provide there,

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but again, I will interject and say

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the teacher is probably
the most important tool

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that you have,

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so using the thing that you know,

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and the strategy that you
have to blend the two,

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between Kahn Academy and the things

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that you were doing in the classroom

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are crucial to the sort of intervention.

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- My apologies there.

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I was just sort of showing off.

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One way to sort of draw,

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even if you don't have fancy technology.

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In that assignment score report

00:21:44.593 --> 00:21:45.790
that Matt had talking about

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a couple of minutes ago,

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you could actually share
this screen on a Zoom call,

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or Google Hangout call with your students,

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and walk through live how
you might solve a problem

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step-by-step.

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So, just another way to
build that communication line

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to your students.

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Let me ask another really
important question from Bryce.

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Bryce says, "How do you
typically grade MAP?

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"Do you take scores
from Kahn into account?

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"Do you build your own assessments?

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"How does Kahn fit into that?"

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- Great question, 'cause we've
been having this discussion

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in our school about grading

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and what grades should look
like extensively here recently.

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So, our subject area,
our Algebra I teachers

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have recently decided that we are grading,

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for the most part, on course mastery.

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So based on the assessments that we give,

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and whether that be a formative assessment

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through Kahn Academy, or a
paper and pencil assessment,

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a unit test, we take those
grades, and we base it,

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whatever our learning target
is, we base it on a scale

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of one to four.

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Whether it's one being a
beginning-level learner,

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or four being a master-level learner,

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or somewhere in between.

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And that makes up 70%
of our grading process.

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So there could be some times
where the Kahn Academy,

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like I said, this is a
formative assessment,

00:23:04.590 --> 00:23:07.750
but a lot of times, most of
it, I use for the other 30%,

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my daily grades that I take.

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And I use the grades that they
have made on the assignments,

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but I allow unlimited number of attempts.

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Because I don't, I'm not worried that

00:23:21.700 --> 00:23:24.300
a student doesn't know it on Monday,

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if they know it on
Friday of that same week.

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Or even if it takes them
two weeks to learn it.

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My goal is by the time
they leave my class,

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that they understand the
material and the content

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that I'm wanting to teach,
regardless of how long

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it takes them to learn that.

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- I love that.

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Yeah, and I've heard that from

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so many other educators recently.

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The Kahn Academy is not
about whether you're

00:23:44.107 --> 00:23:47.111
"Getting an A or a B,"

00:23:47.111 --> 00:23:49.920
but whether you had that growth mindset.

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Are you constantly pushing yourself

00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:52.890
towards that mastery goal,

00:23:52.890 --> 00:23:54.900
even if it's a really
long stretch for you?

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And so using that sort
of look at the progress

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they're making can be even more important.

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Really important question from Sandy.

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Sandy says, "Hey, you
know, if we're trying to

00:24:03.187 --> 00:24:04.977
"figure out where students are,

00:24:04.977 --> 00:24:06.927
"they've obviously been away
from their regular routines

00:24:06.927 --> 00:24:08.617
"for a little while, and want to do

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"maybe some kind of baseline diagnostic,

00:24:10.917 --> 00:24:12.257
"is there anyway to do something similar

00:24:12.257 --> 00:24:13.210
"to that in Kahn Academy?

00:24:13.210 --> 00:24:16.060
"Just to get a sense of where
students are at right now?"

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- I would say that's a good question.

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And I may not know a perfect answer to it.

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One thing I have used to
maybe as like a pretest

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is the course challenges,
or the unit test,

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for then each of the subject areas.

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So, say we were in a unit of quadratics

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before we left for our extended break,

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and so I used, under the quadratics unit,

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at the very bottom, there's a unit test,

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and you can assign that unit test,

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and it will cover everything
that's within that unit.

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And you can see what
questions students get right,

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and get wrong.

00:24:56.950 --> 00:24:57.783
- That's great, yeah.

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I think that's the easiest
way to quickly figure out

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what are the skills that they are lacking,

00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:05.380
where they are strong, and
then pinpoint as you make

00:25:05.380 --> 00:25:06.570
those differentiation assignments,

00:25:06.570 --> 00:25:08.000
as Matt talked about.

00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:08.833
That's great.

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Let's see here.

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This is sort of a basic
question about just making

00:25:15.670 --> 00:25:18.420
sure that assignments are on target.

00:25:18.420 --> 00:25:20.497
Ayomi wants to know,
"Matt, is there any way

00:25:20.497 --> 00:25:22.227
"to change the due date of an assignment

00:25:22.227 --> 00:25:23.537
"after I assigned it?"

00:25:24.450 --> 00:25:26.830
- Great question because I've
done this multiple times.

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Many, many time.

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Yeah, so under the Assignment Plan,

00:25:31.360 --> 00:25:34.140
when you go to, instead
of the Assignor Scores,

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you can go to Manage, and
on the far right-hand side,

00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:43.403
you can click the Actions,
and the Edit button.

00:25:44.460 --> 00:25:46.210
And that will allow you to change,

00:25:46.210 --> 00:25:48.790
if you want to add students through that,

00:25:48.790 --> 00:25:49.623
you can do that.

00:25:49.623 --> 00:25:54.027
Again, there's the change
the due date, and the time.

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And you click Save Changes,
and the changes will be made.

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And another probably similar question

00:25:59.830 --> 00:26:03.190
is that what happens when you
have a new student come in?

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We're a very transient school,

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and so I had multiple times

00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:08.920
where I had a new student come in,

00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:12.450
and so I would add them
to my Google Classroom,

00:26:12.450 --> 00:26:16.593
and then re-sync on Kahn
Academy, under the Settings tab.

00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:22.160
You can update sync with Google Classroom.

00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:25.872
Once that is done, when you go
back to the Assignments tab,

00:26:25.872 --> 00:26:28.970
it will give you a prompt
asking you if you want

00:26:28.970 --> 00:26:32.580
to reassign the assignments
that are active currently

00:26:32.580 --> 00:26:33.520
to the new student.

00:26:33.520 --> 00:26:36.600
And all you have to do
is put Saved, or Yes,

00:26:36.600 --> 00:26:39.180
and it will allow you to reassign

00:26:39.180 --> 00:26:42.380
or give those assignments to
the new student walking in.

00:26:42.380 --> 00:26:43.330
- Cool.

00:26:43.330 --> 00:26:45.500
And then, another really sort of important

00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:47.517
foundational question from Phil,

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"Okay, so I'm curios to
do these assignments,

00:26:50.107 --> 00:26:52.017
"but I wanna actually
understand what I'm assigning

00:26:52.017 --> 00:26:53.457
"before I give it out.

00:26:53.457 --> 00:26:54.927
"Is there some way for me, the teacher,

00:26:54.927 --> 00:26:57.327
"to review the course,
or review the exercise

00:26:57.327 --> 00:26:59.660
"before it goes out to my students?"

00:26:59.660 --> 00:27:00.493
- Absolutely.

00:27:00.493 --> 00:27:04.718
So under the Assign tab,
you can scroll through

00:27:04.718 --> 00:27:07.530
the entire course, as we had said before,

00:27:07.530 --> 00:27:10.420
the videos, if you click
on the link for the videos,

00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:11.620
it will take you directly to that,

00:27:11.620 --> 00:27:14.730
and you can watch the
video in its entirety.

00:27:14.730 --> 00:27:19.650
For the exercises and the articles,

00:27:19.650 --> 00:27:22.060
you can view the article
by clicking on the tab.

00:27:22.060 --> 00:27:24.250
For the exercise, it
shows you the complete set

00:27:24.250 --> 00:27:27.440
of list of questions to see
what that would look like.

00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:29.660
And then you can also
click on the student view,

00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:32.403
to see what it will look
like for the student.

00:27:33.430 --> 00:27:36.350
Another thing on the
Assignments is that I've had

00:27:36.350 --> 00:27:39.088
a lot of teachers who don't necessarily,

00:27:39.088 --> 00:27:41.334
for whatever reason, they
don't like looking through

00:27:41.334 --> 00:27:44.870
that the entire list for a
specific thing that they know

00:27:44.870 --> 00:27:45.930
that they want to assign.

00:27:45.930 --> 00:27:48.973
So they will use the search
bar up at the very top.

00:27:50.621 --> 00:27:54.060
And they may search quadratic equations.

00:27:55.420 --> 00:27:56.490
And once they find,

00:27:56.490 --> 00:27:58.120
so they know exact what they want

00:27:58.120 --> 00:27:59.830
to assign to their students.

00:27:59.830 --> 00:28:01.180
They just need to find it.

00:28:01.180 --> 00:28:02.820
And they'll use that search bar,

00:28:02.820 --> 00:28:05.950
they'll find the exercise
that they want to use,

00:28:05.950 --> 00:28:07.890
and they will click on it.

00:28:07.890 --> 00:28:09.583
And I've used this quite often too.

00:28:09.583 --> 00:28:12.241
The tab at the top now
allows you to Assign

00:28:12.241 --> 00:28:17.240
that specific assignment to
students through that method,

00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:20.283
once you see the student
view on the screen.

00:28:21.430 --> 00:28:23.200
So you can still have the same options,

00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:25.313
and assign it in that way.

00:28:26.670 --> 00:28:27.503
- I love that.

00:28:27.503 --> 00:28:28.980
Because I feel like it can
be totally overwhelming

00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:31.810
to look at that massive
list of skills and videos

00:28:31.810 --> 00:28:33.030
on the course.

00:28:33.030 --> 00:28:35.640
If you can come out with
one skill, or one video,

00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:37.960
search for that thing you want,
and then click the blue bar

00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:39.970
to go right to the assignment piece.

00:28:39.970 --> 00:28:41.490
Okay. I know we're running out of time,

00:28:41.490 --> 00:28:43.500
so I want to finish up
with three question,

00:28:43.500 --> 00:28:45.250
starting with a really
great one that I received

00:28:45.250 --> 00:28:47.270
from Rose, an eighth grader.

00:28:47.270 --> 00:28:49.533
Again, these webinars are
promoted very broadly.

00:28:49.533 --> 00:28:52.447
Rose says, "I'm an eight-grader,
who's getting ready

00:28:52.447 --> 00:28:53.767
"for high school next year.

00:28:53.767 --> 00:28:56.147
"And I'm worried with this
whole thing happening,

00:28:56.147 --> 00:28:58.547
"you know, with school being
closed, how can I be ready?

00:28:58.547 --> 00:28:59.960
"How can I prepare?"

00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:03.600
As a high school teacher speaking
to a future high schooler,

00:29:03.600 --> 00:29:05.800
what advice would you give
Rose for really making sure

00:29:05.800 --> 00:29:07.660
she's ready for prime time, hopefully,

00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:09.160
knock on wood, come September.

00:29:10.132 --> 00:29:13.000
- Yeah, the first thing I
would say, Rose could you,

00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:14.650
if you want to move to
northwest, Georgia and come

00:29:14.650 --> 00:29:16.714
to my classroom, it sounds
like you're a great student.

00:29:16.714 --> 00:29:17.957
(Jeremy laughs)

00:29:17.957 --> 00:29:20.810
- (laughing) That is awesome
that you're concerned with it.

00:29:20.810 --> 00:29:24.180
But using Kahn Academy,
my suggestion would be

00:29:24.180 --> 00:29:27.150
to go into the courses in
the top left-hand corner,

00:29:27.150 --> 00:29:30.860
and choose, like at our
school, we move into Algebra I.

00:29:30.860 --> 00:29:33.346
So if you're moving into
Algebra I, select the course

00:29:33.346 --> 00:29:37.590
that are wanting to do, or that
you're gonna be moving into,

00:29:37.590 --> 00:29:42.590
and begin at that first unit,
and work your way through it.

00:29:42.756 --> 00:29:46.140
Use the videos as a help.

00:29:46.140 --> 00:29:50.250
Like I said, I started with
Kahn Academy on YouTube,

00:29:50.250 --> 00:29:53.943
and using videos to help me
kind of solidify the things

00:29:53.943 --> 00:29:55.530
that I was hearing in class.

00:29:55.530 --> 00:29:58.209
But even as a first
instruction, those videos,

00:29:58.209 --> 00:30:00.240
they're great instructional videos,

00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.360
and I highly recommend
them, to watch through them,

00:30:03.360 --> 00:30:05.410
and practice your exercises.

00:30:05.410 --> 00:30:07.360
And one thing we have not touched on is

00:30:08.729 --> 00:30:09.640
the Mastery Challenges

00:30:09.640 --> 00:30:12.640
that are somewhat new to Kahn Academy.

00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:15.070
So whenever you click on that course page,

00:30:15.070 --> 00:30:17.230
at the top, you will
receive a Mastery Challenge.

00:30:17.230 --> 00:30:19.810
A lot of times I have my students do that,

00:30:19.810 --> 00:30:22.353
maybe as a warm-up, when
they come in in the morning,

00:30:23.310 --> 00:30:24.980
or through out day, when
they finish an assignment,

00:30:24.980 --> 00:30:27.560
to go work on their course
math, their Mastery Challenge.

00:30:27.560 --> 00:30:30.400
And this is just a style
review for all the things

00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:34.990
that you have covered to
just read this and make sure

00:30:34.990 --> 00:30:35.930
you've not forgotten the things

00:30:35.930 --> 00:30:38.053
that you have done through Kahn Academy.

00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:39.753
- All right.

00:30:39.753 --> 00:30:40.670
Great advice for Rose.

00:30:40.670 --> 00:30:42.000
And, Rose, we wish you good luck.

00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:44.117
I know it's a hard time right
now, but think of joining us.

00:30:44.117 --> 00:30:47.730
And I have a feeling that
there are awesome Mr. Colbreths

00:30:47.730 --> 00:30:48.840
in your future in high school.

00:30:48.840 --> 00:30:50.683
So more support to come.

00:30:51.770 --> 00:30:54.590
Second question for you,
Matt, is I know we haven't

00:30:54.590 --> 00:30:57.250
been able to cover every
question that came in right now,

00:30:57.250 --> 00:30:59.360
if educators are still hungry for answers

00:30:59.360 --> 00:31:02.260
after the session, where would
you recommend they go next?

00:31:03.678 --> 00:31:05.940
- Well, a couple of different
places that I would say is,

00:31:05.940 --> 00:31:10.480
one is, first I would say,
on your teacher dashboard,

00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:14.070
I directed a lot of
teachers to this point,

00:31:14.070 --> 00:31:15.890
is the Resources tab.

00:31:15.890 --> 00:31:17.720
And there's a lot of good videos,

00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:18.980
underneath that resources tab,

00:31:18.980 --> 00:31:21.350
especially for getting started.

00:31:21.350 --> 00:31:23.430
So if your really new to it,

00:31:23.430 --> 00:31:25.870
and you want to look at
some different things,

00:31:25.870 --> 00:31:27.940
check all of those out.

00:31:27.940 --> 00:31:30.040
If you run into a specific question,

00:31:30.040 --> 00:31:32.150
or something that you need to ask,

00:31:32.150 --> 00:31:35.237
underneath your name in
the top right corner,

00:31:35.237 --> 00:31:39.108
when you click on it,
there is a help section.

00:31:39.108 --> 00:31:41.025
So you can click on that
help section, and your

00:31:41.025 --> 00:31:45.250
questions are sent directly
to Kahn Academy experts

00:31:45.250 --> 00:31:48.320
who get back to you quite quickly.

00:31:48.320 --> 00:31:50.360
You just have to report
the problem at the top.

00:31:50.360 --> 00:31:53.430
And I've had good experience with that.

00:31:53.430 --> 00:31:56.210
The last area that I would
recommend everyone joining

00:31:56.210 --> 00:31:58.210
is a Facebook page.

00:31:58.210 --> 00:32:00.570
And it is Kahn Academy for teachers,

00:32:00.570 --> 00:32:02.190
and I'm a member there.

00:32:02.190 --> 00:32:06.550
And I tend to, I look at almost daily,

00:32:06.550 --> 00:32:08.380
and just see some of the conversations

00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:09.213
that are going on there.

00:32:09.213 --> 00:32:12.760
But there are a magillion great

00:32:12.760 --> 00:32:15.577
Kahn Academy teachers that
use Kahn Academy on there

00:32:15.577 --> 00:32:18.770
and can answer a lot of
questions that you have.

00:32:20.120 --> 00:32:21.020
- All right.

00:32:21.020 --> 00:32:21.853
Awesome.

00:32:21.853 --> 00:32:23.340
I'm just sharing all those
resources in the chat.

00:32:23.340 --> 00:32:25.280
So if you want to get the resources,

00:32:25.280 --> 00:32:27.820
if you want to get the request
help from Kahn Academy,

00:32:27.820 --> 00:32:30.570
or join the Facebook group,
all of that is in your chat.

00:32:30.570 --> 00:32:32.110
And the last thing, Matt, I know that

00:32:32.110 --> 00:32:33.660
you've already shared a ton.

00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:35.410
But if you have any final words of wisdom

00:32:35.410 --> 00:32:37.740
for educators out there
across the country,

00:32:37.740 --> 00:32:38.573
as they're thinking about,

00:32:38.573 --> 00:32:40.297
"Oh my goodness, I've
got at least a couple

00:32:40.297 --> 00:32:43.037
"of more weeks to go,
probably many more than that,

00:32:43.037 --> 00:32:44.397
"how do I make the most of this time?

00:32:44.397 --> 00:32:46.930
"How do I support my
students and their families?"

00:32:46.930 --> 00:32:49.093
Any sort of sage advice you can share?

00:32:50.571 --> 00:32:54.865
- I have just, one, tried to
not get overwhelmed by it all.

00:32:54.865 --> 00:32:56.690
Make sure you're taking care of yourself,

00:32:56.690 --> 00:33:00.010
and taking care of your
immediate family first,

00:33:00.010 --> 00:33:02.000
because if you are not in good health,

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.210
then there's no way you
can help anyone else.

00:33:03.210 --> 00:33:04.570
So take care of yourself.

00:33:04.570 --> 00:33:06.960
But two, just try to keep at some sort of

00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:08.730
a communication line
open with your students.

00:33:08.730 --> 00:33:11.130
I think that is the most important thing,

00:33:11.130 --> 00:33:12.740
that students can know that you are there,

00:33:12.740 --> 00:33:14.803
that you are available to them.

00:33:14.803 --> 00:33:17.610
And the content will start to,

00:33:17.610 --> 00:33:18.900
once they have that relationship,

00:33:18.900 --> 00:33:22.610
and they know that you're looking
after their best interest,

00:33:22.610 --> 00:33:25.890
the content side of it starts
to kind of fall into place.

00:33:25.890 --> 00:33:27.090
- I love that, yeah.

00:33:27.090 --> 00:33:29.410
It's almost like the advice
we give to new parents.

00:33:29.410 --> 00:33:30.620
You've got to take care of yourself

00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:32.270
before you can take care of your kids.

00:33:32.270 --> 00:33:34.739
The same is doubly true for educators.

00:33:34.739 --> 00:33:35.572
- Absolutely.

00:33:35.572 --> 00:33:38.590
- So Matt has given us tons of new wisdom

00:33:38.590 --> 00:33:41.690
to pursue these big challenges
we have ahead of us.

00:33:41.690 --> 00:33:43.545
He's also given us the strength to do it

00:33:43.545 --> 00:33:45.870
at a time when we need it the most.

00:33:45.870 --> 00:33:46.840
So I want to thank you, Matt,

00:33:46.840 --> 00:33:48.642
for sharing all your expertise today.

00:33:48.642 --> 00:33:51.260
And I want to thank everyone
out there listening in

00:33:51.260 --> 00:33:52.810
for investing in the session.

00:33:52.810 --> 00:33:55.160
And I wish you tremendous
success in the weeks to come.

00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:57.380
Thank you so much, and
have a great weekend, all.

00:33:57.380 --> 00:33:58.230
- Thank you, all.