Learn How to Use Pixar in a Box with Your Students

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- Hey everyone, this is Jeremy Schieffelin

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from Khan Academy.

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Thanks so much for joining
us in a long running series

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of Remote Learning 101.

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It's gone on a little
longer than we expected

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at the beginning back in March,
but we're happy to serve you

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with whatever is most of interest.

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We've heard from a lot of
teachers across the country.

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They say Yeah, technology is hard

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and academics are hard right now.

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But motivation and engagement, sparking

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that fundamental curiosity
and passion for learning

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is really the toughest thing to summon

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when everyone's feeling a little down.

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And so into that void, has stepped

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this amazing Khan Academy
Ambassador, Laura gas,

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who is an incredible sixth grade teacher

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in Southern California,
and who even before

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this crisis started, highly
motivating her students

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with a very special part of
Khan Academy that was built

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in collaboration with Pixar,
which is called Pixar in a box.

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Basically, an online curriculum
that's not about calculus,

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or algebra or AP U.S. History,

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but about how do you tell
really amazing stories

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using both human ingenuity and technology.

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And so, I would love for you to learn

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from Laura about her experience
and her recommendations.

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And I wanna give you a little
bit of an extra bonus today.

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In the spirit of Pixar and innovation,

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we're gonna try a new
way of asking questions

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for these webinars.

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So instead of just asking
questions in the question box,

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and then waiting to see if
your question will be answered,

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we're actually gonna use a new tool,

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which you gonna find @khan.co/pixarKhan.

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I will chat that into
the chat area right now.

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And what you will find when
you get there, is a list

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of questions coming in from
teachers across the country

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that you can not only add
to, but you can also upvote.

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So if you see question that
you're really excited about,

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just go ahead and give it a thumbs up,

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and those will rise to the top.

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And those are the ones that
will turn to Laura first

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to make sure they get priority answers.

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So that being said,
Laura, we're so excited

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to have you here today.

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- Thank you
- Thank you again

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for sharing your expertise in the midst

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of everything else going on.

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Take a moment to tell us about

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your own educational adventure

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and how you got to this moment.

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- Well, I'm a teacher here
in Southern California.

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I've been teaching about 20 years now.

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And I teach in Victor
Elementary School District,

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at a school called Galileo Academy.

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And I've been there teaching,
I taught third grade

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then sixth grade, is what I'm
currently teaching right now.

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- That's awesome, and tell
us how things are going,

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like how is the remote
learning going for you?

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What are you learning along the way?

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- Well, I've become much more
technological (laughing).

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We've been really doing
a lot of zoom classes

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and it's been really great.

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I'm able to see the kids
still, and the kids are able

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to see me and I'm still
able to give them some,

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a lot of different lessons.

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Today We even took a virtual tour

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of the Great Wall of China.

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So, it was pretty neat.

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Yeah.

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- That's awesome.

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Well clearly I can tell that
you're really focused on

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that engagement and motivation piece,

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as well as the technology piece.

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So, why don't you tell
us a little bit more

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about Pixar in a Box?

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Like, what is it?

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And why did you use it in your
classroom in the first place?

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- Well, one of the reasons
why I started using it,

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I actually started out as an elective.

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We were able to choose, each
one of us were able to choose

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an elective, something that
we really enjoyed doing,

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and not something that
I really enjoyed doing.

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I really think that Pixar in a Box is,

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the art of storytelling by storytellers.

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Which is pretty fantastic.

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And so the last couple
of years, I thought,

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this is such a fantastic,
just these lessons

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are just amazing that I'm
gonna actually use them

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in my writing block

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rather than just using
them as an elective.

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And the kids, absolutely into it.

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They really have blossomed as writers

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and they really enjoy the process too.

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- That's awesome.

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And so tell us how you typically
use it with your students.

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Like how do you roll it out?

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How do you get them excited about it?

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- Well, we usually do lessons
per day but, say for example,

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the very first lessons.

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So we'll go to the art of storytelling.

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And in the art of storytelling,

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it's just so fantastic, all
of those different lessons

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are just all about the storytelling.

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So the first thing that I like to do,

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is I'd like to show a Pixar short.

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What's amazing is Pixar has
so many fantastic shorts

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and they are short and
it's so great for the kids

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to be able to tell back the
story and they'll be able

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to use those to help tell their stories.

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So we start with, we are storytellers.

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I don't think that the kids realize

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what great storytellers they truly are.

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They just don't know
how to tell that story.

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Or, you know, and they learn
how to do it in a Pixar way.

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So, first they learn what
amazing storytellers they are.

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In the first lesson, it
talks about the characters

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and the unique perspective of characters.

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And what we do is, it's so relatable

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to the kids because once
we watch the videos,

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because that's another
really important piece,

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there's always a video on there and Pixar

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has allowed us to see a lot
of the different stories

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that come from people who
actually work at Pixar

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that they are able to
share their stories about

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how they became storytellers.

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So, then when it asks the
student to do is then allows

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the student to self Reflect.

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But what's great is most of
these kids have already seen

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these Pixar movies.

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So, they'll ask you, pick
your three favorite, Okay.

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Now let's apply what we've learned.

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So, if there are like, for
example, in the first activity

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it's about, you know, the emotions

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and it's about really starting
to try to express a memory

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that they have.

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So, they'll take it and they'll
put it in the same concept

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as that memory is a story
that I can expand on.

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So that's what it asks
the kids to actually draw

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on their own experiences to be able to

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tell those stories,
which they soon find out

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that they are now storytellers.

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And then we work into just the structure

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of the story or that I've
loved the what if activities.

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In one of them, the what if
this happened or that happened.

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And what's fantastic is you can take,

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say, "The Incredibles",
and then I'll ask the kids,

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well, who asked what if?

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What is that What if they asked?

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And they'll be able to tell me exactly

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what if there were superheroes

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that couldn't be superheroes anymore?

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Well, so there's your story.

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And that's how you can start it.

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And then after that,
we'll work into character.

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The kids will start
creating their characters

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which is really fantastic
because once they really get

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their character developed,
because we spend

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a lot of time on developing
that one character.

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So once they get the
character developed using

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that internal and
external characteristics,

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they have to draw the
character, they have to tell me

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who is this?

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Do they have a list?

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Do they limp?

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You know, and so they
have to really define

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their characters really well.

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And so once they can
define that character,

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they can then put the
character into a world.

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So then we talk about setting, Okay.

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Let's go ahead

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and we'll talk about, what kind

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of world do you want to live in.

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And I love that one piece
where it talks about

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the wants versus needs.

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Because it's an amazing
way to start the story.

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They can, what does your character want?

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And what do they need
to do to be able to go

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and get what they want?

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And then after we get our character,

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we wanna know, you know, What's
happening to the character?

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Where are their stakes?

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You know, those kinds of things.

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Then we start looking
into the story structure,

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which is where the kids
really start to develop

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their story itself.

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The one thing that's absolutely
amazing is this story spine.

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This story's spine is just something

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that gets their juices really flowing.

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The once upon a time,
every day until one day

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and then because of that, because of that,

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because of that, until finally.

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And it's a great way to start the story.

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Sometimes what we'll do
in class is, I'll put up

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the story spine and I
say, "Okay kids, tell me

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"once upon a time."

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And we'll do it in a
group and then the kids

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will tell me once upon, and then I said,

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"Okay now, every day what did they do?"

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And then somebody will
tell me, this thought

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or the other thing.

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And then we'll have a class
story that we can repeat

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and we Just have a really
good time with that,

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because sometimes they
turn out pretty funny.

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- You could even do that
over Zoom this days,

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have that sort of like,
class wide story building.

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- And then after we work
through the story spine,

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I love that, the spine then
turns into three different acts.

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So then we have act one.

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And then we have the
three, there's act one,

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beginning, middle and end.

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Act one is the once upon a
time, every day, until one day.

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So then we work through act one.

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And then we go on to act
two, which is the because of,

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because of, because of,

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and we've worked through that and they get

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their middle meat part of the story.

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And then finally, we'll
go on to act three,

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and that's until finally
and then ever since then.

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And then they have a story,
which is really fantastic.

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And then after that, what we do

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is then we'll start
storyboarding our story.

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So we'll work through
that and they can see

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what their story is gonna look like.

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And then once they have
their story, we were talking

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a little bit earlier
about, then they have,

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then they really get excited about writing

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their story into a script.

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So what we then do is we
go to, there's an extension

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in Chrome, that is youMeScript.

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And the kids can download
this into their Chromebooks

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and they can actually write a script.

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So, they end up having a
complete story's full script.

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And sometimes we talk
about, we're doing this

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and we're gonna go from
beginning script to screen and,

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so sometimes, if we end
up being able to have

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a little bit more time,
we can maybe recorded it

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or do a live action or
sometimes they can do claymation

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and do a stop motion.

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And so they get a complete story.

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But the other wonderful thing
about this, we've been talking

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about narrative for a while here.

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This also, I have used in expository

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which has been really great.

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We will study something
like the ancient cultures.

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And so what we'll do is,
I will give them a prompt

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and tell them, "okay,
now you are the character

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"in this ancient culture."

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So now you can then, they
have to do the research

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on their ancient culture, they
have to find out everything

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there is to know about that
culture because they have

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to be able to write the setting for that.

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And then they can have an adventure.

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In the meantime, they're also learning

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how to write an expository
to be able to show

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an ancient culture or even scientist,

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they can become scientists too.

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- That's awesome.

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- Yeah.

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- I have to tell you like,
I am super impressed because

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not only is everything you
shared the kind of stuff

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that I think any student
would love to work

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on during normal times, it's
a special kind of material

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that a student could work on,

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even in these very strange
times, whether it's with

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the class or Zoom or on their
own through assignments.

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- Yeah.

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- That being said, I
know there are a tonne

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of questions coming in.

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I do wanna remind folks

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that if you wanna ask those questions,

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it's khan.co/pixarKhan.

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And if you don't mind, Laura,
I'd love to start at the top

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with some of the top questions coming in.

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Okay, so I think this is kind
of the elephant in the room

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at this point, which is Laura
is a sixth grade teacher.

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But do you have any
recommendations as far as like,

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would this work for younger elementary,

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would you recommend it all
the way up to high school,

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like who is this really for?

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- Well, I'm actually going to be,

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next year I'm going to
be doing third grade

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and I am gonna use it
in my third grade class.

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I think this can be used for all ages.

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If you're in kindergarten and
first grade, you can do it

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as a directed instruction
and they do it a talk through

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in kindergarten and first
grade, and even Second grade.

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Once you get to third grade, I think this

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is really something that they
can absolutely do as well.

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When you reach the sixth
grade is just gonna be

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a little bit more sophisticated
writing, they're gonna

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have a little bit more,
the language is gonna look

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a little bit different.

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But this can be used, I would
suggest in kindergarten first

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and maybe even second, for
it to be a whole class direct

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and maybe write a story all together.

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But third through six,
it works out wonderfully.

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- Great, and we'll also mention,
we've talked mostly about

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the storytelling element.

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But there are a number of
technical sections focused

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on animation and visual
design and all that.

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And those are actually
recommended for fifth grade

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all the way through high
school with some of the chances

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to really apply advanced
offerings, if your students

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are hungry for that.

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So, definitely serves a wide range.

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- Yes, yes.

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I'd use the animation
in my sixth grade class,

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but some of my kids will come and tell me,

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"Oh, we've already done this, you know,

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"we did this when I was in fourth grade,

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"or we did this when
I was in fifth grade."

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So, it depends on, if
the kids really loved it.

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Just really go in there
and try and use it.

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- Very cool, and then, in
terms of actually finding it,

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I'll send out this link again,

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but it's basically,
right here in your chat.

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And if you ever have any
trouble hunting it down,

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just flat out type Pixar
into the search box,

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and there you go.

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Okay.

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So, next question that was coming in is,

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that unit that you describe a storytelling

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all the way from coming
up with inspiration,

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to building a finished script,

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how long does it typically take Laura?

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- Well, it depends on the group.

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And, I think it's really
important to when the kids

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are really working hard

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and they are so interested
in these things.

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Take as much time as the kids wanna take.

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I typically will do a lesson a day,

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but there's quite a few
times when I'll take, like

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the character development, sometimes

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they'll take maybe two to three
days, because we really want

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to get that character really down.

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So, we can put him or her
into, or it, into a whole bunch

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of different situations.

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So, I would typically do it,

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maybe a lesson every two days or so.

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The first couple of lessons
are gonna take maybe,

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you know, an hour.

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But as you work through
it and start getting into

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the meat of it, the act, the three acts,

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that's gonna take a little bit longer,

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maybe two to three weeks
to get through that.

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But it's typically, we work on trimesters.

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So typically, in a trimester I can have

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all the Lessons finished.

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- That's great.

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So it sounds like if a
teacher started right now,

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depending on when their
school schedule goes through,

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they could probably finish it up

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by the end of the school year.

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You'd have a nice thing
to end the summer with.

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- Yes, Yes, I think so.

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- Great.

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Now going back to the
sort of mathematical piece

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that we alluded to, the more
technical side of things.

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Can you talk about how that
works, what that looks like,

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and how you may incorporate
math into some of that?

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- Well, that's mostly for the ones that,

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when you look at the Pixar in the Box

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when you're looking at,
there's with the animation,

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they are working through
math with third in artistry.

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So, they're just learning how
to plot and how to program,

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how to do the animation, how
they're using animations.

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So, really in the animation there,

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that's where they're using
the mouthpiece there.

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We don't do it as much but,

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the kids get right in there.

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And with the animation, there
are so many tutorials in there

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that actually show them
exactly what to do.

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And they plot it out for the kids.

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And it's so exciting with the one

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that you're showing round
now with a bouncing ball,

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they get so excited when
they get the bouncing ball.

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But most of the kids
will go right in there,

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and plot it themselves.

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- Very cool.

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And then just sort of expand upon

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what we were talking about before.

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For each of these more technical sections,

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there's both an introduction,

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and then a more advanced
mathematical section.

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So if you have fifth
graders, you can start with

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the intro and stop there.

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If you have middle or high schoolers,

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you can even go all the way to the end.

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- Exactly.

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- Great.

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What do you think about this

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as a whole course versus supplement?

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Think it goes back to

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that elective versus integrated approach?

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- Well, I have to say that when I gave it

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as an elective, I only had an
hour, maybe a couple of days

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a week, and the kids
wanted more, more and more.

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And because they've really enjoyed it,

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they also enjoy watching
the Pixar movies in short.

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So everybody wanted to be in

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that particular elective.

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But, I think that this is
such an incredible program,

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Pixar in the Box, that it it
helps the students so much

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with their writing and
their writing block.

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I think it's just, I use
it in my writing block,

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and I will continue to
use it in my writing book

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for my whole class, from now on because,

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I just think the quality of their writing

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that's coming out is fantastic.

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And then when they writing in the scripts,

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they also start learning about dialogue,

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and they also start learning about,

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they learn about how to place the action

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and those sorts of things

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and, I just like it.

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I would recommend doing
it as a writing block.

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- Wonderful.

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I know folks are asking
about Google Classroom,

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which is something that
you mentioned to me before

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we got started here.

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What do you recommend there
as far as the integration?

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- Well, I really have to
say, Khan Academy has done

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an amazing, and Pixar together,
have done an amazing job

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with creating the Pixar
in a Box when the lesson.

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So the lessons are just
right there for you.

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But then what I would
do is, I would go ahead

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and create a Google Classroom.

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And then you can share
that with your students

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and that gives your
students an opportunity

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to start adding all of the
lessons there, so you can see

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all the different things they're doing.

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I've had quite a few
students, what they'll do is

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they'll take pictures of their character

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with them, side by side and
they'll send that to me.

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You can have each, you can
separate your Google Classroom

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into different activities.

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Start with the storytelling
activity 1, 2, 3, 4

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and then work it that way.

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And then you're able to
see what the kids are able

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to create when you're there.

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And then we also do, you know,

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our distance learning Zoom
meetings, and kids are able

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to share all of their
information that way too.

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But I think Google
Classroom is probably one

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of the best ways to get
some assignments and be able

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to give your kids some feedback
on how well they're doing.

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- That's great.

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And so we do something as simple
as take that URL right out

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of the assignment or the
exercise, and then paste it

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into an assignment in Google Classroom.

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- That's it.

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- Okay, cool.

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That's awesome.

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As far as a teacher guide,
obviously it's gonna feel

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a little overwhelming
at first cause it's such

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a big piece of content.

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Any sort of resources you
found that are useful for like,

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digging in and making those first steps.

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- Well, again, when you're going

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to the Pixar in a Box,
what I would suggest doing

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is just looking at that educators guide

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and it really will explain a lot of the,

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what's behind Pixar on a box?

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And how the lessons were created.

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And I would just go through
each one of the lessons.

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And teachers are just
amazing kinds of people,

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they always take things and they do it

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and make it their own.

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Some of the things that
I have done, I have added

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a little bit to their learning.

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So really look at it and
try to make it your own.

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You might see something and
go, "Oh, this is fantastic.

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"That's why I added
bragging scripts to it."

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I would suggest going
through each, look at

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that educators guide and
then I would actually look

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through each one of the lessons.

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And they're pretty straightforward

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because they've done a great
job at explaining exactly

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what they want the student to learn.

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- That's awesome.

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Okay we shared that link there.

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I know someone else is
asking for a link to

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that script writing extension,
we'll put that in as well.

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Let's see what else here.

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Can we see a finished product?

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You don't have to violate any

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of your student's confidentiality or PII,

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but can you give folks a sense of like,

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what your sixth graders
are coming up with?

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- Well, I've been getting a
lot of stories about unicorns.

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(laughing)

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A lot of pictures of unicorns
and things like that.

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I wish I could, I had
some of those things,

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but we left before we got to get

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a lot of the finished products.

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But, a lot of the students,
some of the students

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will come up with amazing
narrative scripts about things

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that are happening in their own lives,

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and, I just I wish I had some to show you

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but, you're gonna be
amazed at what you find

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and what you guys are gonna get.

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Some of the pictures that they draw for me

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and then with the characteristics,
you have to draw on

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the outside, the external and
then the inside, the internal

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and some of the pictures
these guys are sending me,

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you can tell they really enjoy it.

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- That's awesome and
especially right now I think.

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You know, like talking about

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the really tough emotions of this moment.

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And for students to
have an outlet to share

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how they're feeling, even

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if it's through a fictional scripts,

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like it's so powerful to be
able to get that out there.

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- Yeah.

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- Okay.

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As far as the scripting piece,
I don't know if you're able

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to speak to this Laura, but have you heard

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of anyone doing something
similar on an iPad,

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if they don't have access to Chromebooks?

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Maybe a scripting app
or something like that.

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- You should be able to,
if you go into Chrome

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and you're opened up, you
should be able to access

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the YouMeScript on any
device that you have.

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I haven't had any one tell me
that they haven't been able

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to access it because it's an
actual, app that comes from

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the Chrome Web Store.

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- Yeah.
- So if you

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have Chrome you should be
able to find and have it.

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- So it looks like the extension
is a nice thing if you do

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have Chromebooks, but even if
you just have a web browser,

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like Safari on an iPad, you
can still go to youmescript.com

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and get started it looks like.

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- you should be able to do that.

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Yeah.

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- Great.

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Then sort of the question around,

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isolation versus whole unit,

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obviously, there's a huge
cornucopia of lessons here.

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Do you think it's okay just
to sort of pick and choose,

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like hey, if they wanna do
a little bit of geometry

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or a little bit of stat,
or is it really better

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to go through that full
unit of storytelling?

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- Well, it's better to
go from beginning to end,

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especially with storytelling.

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Now with the animation,

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some of them build upon the other ones.

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So it's really better
to go in the sequence

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of how the lessons are provided for you.

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- Makes sense, Yeah, I think
storytelling is such a like,

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additive cumulative process,
that you don't wanna just dip

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in and out for that one.

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What about this question,
especially for younger students.

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So maybe like, sixth graders and below,

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obviously anytime you have
students who are under 13,

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there are very specific policies in place

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when it comes to technology.

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Do your students actually
have Khan Academy logins,

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or is that actually irrelevant?

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Every single one of my kids
has Khan Academy login.

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That's one thing that we have emphasized.

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It's been incredible to be able

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to be a Khan Academy ambassador
because I've been able to,

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specifically at my site, be able to show

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all the teachers how
to get on Khan Academy,

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how to get their classroom
set up, all of that.

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And so they are able to, every single one

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of our teachers are
able to use Khan Academy

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and they all have their own
accounts on Khan Academy.

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- Great, I'll just mention
like, I think that's probably

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the best scenario in the sense
that that way, you can track

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their progress using Khan Academy reports

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and things like that.

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However, I know these are
very different circumstances

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than we're used to.

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And so if you're just like,
I wanna roll this out,

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but I don't have time for
another platform, another set

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of passwords, like we were
just saying a second ago,

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you can always come
over to Google Classroom

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or whatever LMS is, and just
flat out paste the URL in.

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Anyone can access it,
even without a login.

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- Right.
- and then just say,

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"Hey, send me your finished product.

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"Send me your brainstorm,
send me your script,

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"send me whatever."

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And then, your students
get all the benefit

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of all this goodness, without having

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to create another password,
another registration process.

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So, just throwing it out there.

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Let's see here.

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Here's a really interesting question

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around special education students.

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So actually, we did a session
dedicated to this audience

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a couple weeks ago, which was one

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of our most registered sessions ever.

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And there's a real concern right now

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that I think, every student feels like

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they're being left behind in some ways,

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but special education students
have unique challenges

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that we have to solve
as educators right now.

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Do you think that this program could work

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for that audience and drive
that same level of engagement?

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- Yeah absolutely.

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I work pretty closely
with our special ed team.

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And I'll go back to when I
was doing it as an elective.

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I had some of the kids that were from sped

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that came into my classroom
and they were going through

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all the lessons together with us.

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But we work closely
together and I absolutely,

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some of those sped kids
have great imaginations,

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and i think that they can
do it without any problems.

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- Cool.

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Yeah, it does feel like this
is really happening something,

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pretty universal in this moment,

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which is our desire to tell our stories.

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And doesn't matter where
you're coming from or whatever,

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like this is a chance to
really have that outlet.

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- Great.

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- Cool.

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Well, I know we're at
the bottom of the hour,

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and I wanna respect your time law,

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cause I know you have your
own students to serve.

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Any final words of wisdom that you

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wanna leave your fellow
educators with, as they go off

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on their own journeys.

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- Like I say, Pixar in a Box,

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it's just the art of storytelling.

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And we are gonna create a generations,

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if we continue to use this.

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We're gonna create a
generation of storytellers,

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which I think is gonna be fantastic.

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And, I would just keep
plugging away and, like I say,

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it's very straightforward,
it's pretty easy to use,

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and, you just can't imagine
the wonderful stories

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that you're gonna get from your kids.

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- Cool.

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I think that's what we all need

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a little bit more of right now.

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Right, thank you for
sharing your story, Laura.

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And then I wish everyone else
incredible adventures yet

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to come and stories yet to be written.

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And please, please, please
wish you all incredible success

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on that tough road ahead.

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Thank you so much, Laura.

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Thanks to everyone.

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Hi y'all.


Khan Academy Best Practices for Supporting Students in Special Education

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- Hi, everyone, this
is Jeremy Schifeling's

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from Khan Academy.

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Hope you're having a good hump Day.

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I know we're kind of in
a hub season right now

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trying to get over this
big thing as a society.

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So, I appreciate you making
time out of everything going on

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in your lives, both
professionally and personally

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to be with us.

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And speaking of that, I have
to give a huge shout out

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to Chris Casper here,
because Chris is not only

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a dedicated special
education teacher in Arizona,

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he's also the father of
three kids, five and under.

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So, when we talk about work life balance,

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Chris is juggling as many balls in the air

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as you can imagine.

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And so we really appreciate
you taking time out

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of all that chaos to share your expertise

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with us today, Chris.

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- Absolutely, happy to be here.

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- So just to give folks a sense
of where you're coming from,

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tell us a little bit
about sort of what you do

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as an educator in normal times,

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and then how you're
coping today given these

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very abnormal times we live in.

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- So, on a day to day basis
outside of a pandemic,

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I do special education math.

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Specifically, I have an ELA counterpart.

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And I do this year I'm doing
seventh and eighth grade.

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Last year, I did fourth
through eighth grade.

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And so I do a little bit of pull up,

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but most of my stuff is pushing,

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helping support the
students and the teachers.

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- Cool, and how are things
starting to shift for you,

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as you've gotten to this
remote learning environment

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all of a sudden, especially given

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special education students.

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- Special education students, for me,

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it hasn't changed a lot.

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I'm meeting more one on one.

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Rather than like groups of three or four,

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I'm just having kids schedule their time.

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But before the pandemic started,

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I was using Khan Academy to
track and do goal progress stuff

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with the students and allow
them to track their own progress

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and be aware of what they
need to be working on.

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So, that part of it hasn't
changed a lot for me,

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from pre-pandemic to currently.

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- Cool, I love that you're still
that lifeline for students,

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even on a one on one basis,

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'cause I know that's hard to scale,

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but so important for students.

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- Yeah, and I haven't
been pushing it a ton

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because they have so much
other stuff going on.

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So, it's been a few
emails, just checking in.

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I've done a few video conferencing

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experiences with them,
which has been interesting.

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But yeah just letting
them know that I'm here

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if they need to talk, if
they need to see my face,

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if that's helpful.

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And then just reminders
that these can still access.

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And I still need them to access that stuff

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that they've been doing on
Khan before the pandemic.

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- Cool, and talk to us a
little bit about sort of

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what your expectations
are with Khan Academy,

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especially in this moment.

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So, that folks who are
trying to replicate that

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for maybe the first time can get a sense

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of how to approach it.

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- So Khan Academy, in
terms of special education

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how I use it.

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All the kids that are on my
service roster are in my class.

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And it's, I think the name
changes every year this year,

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it might just be Casper.

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So, they're all in my class.

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And then from there, I assign
them specific standards

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based on their goals in their IEPs.

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So, if I have, I think I have
a caseload of 14 this year,

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so I assign 14 students different

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assignments based on their goal.

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So, if I have an eighth
grader who's working

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on one step equations,

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their assignments will be gauged
towards one step equations.

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And then one of the things I
really like about Khan Academy

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is I can scaffold them up to that.

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So, I might assign just
combining like terms,

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and they show that they
mastered those different

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components of solving equations,

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I give them the actual equation.

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- cool, just sort of illustrate

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what you're talking about here.

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Obviously, you can make assignments

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from your Khan Academy classroom,

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where you can search for the exact thing

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that you wanna hand out
throughout your exercises

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in that area, and then assign
it not just your whole class,

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but the individual students.

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So, you get that sort of differentiation

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that you were alluding to there.

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- And one of the most
helpful things for me is,

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when I've written that
IEP, and it's enforced,

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I'll go on Khan.

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And I'll assign the standardized
assignments that they need.

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And then I'll change
the due dates based on

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when I want them due.

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So, it like progresses
towards that year and goal.

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So they, so then I have
it set up right away.

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And so like on this when
this pandemic started,

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all my kids were already
set up for year of

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instruction because I did
it at the very beginning.

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- Very cool, and so even for folks

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who are just getting
started in this moment,

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you can absolutely catch up with Chris

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in the sense of getting your
students onto Khan Academy

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by handing out that course
link or using Google Classroom

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if you have it.

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And then you can start to give

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these differentiate assignments.

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I know a lot of teachers
are really curious

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what you do next, like
what are your expectations

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for how fast an assignment should be done?

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Do you grade it, do you give feedback.

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- So it depends on every student, right?

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Not every kid is gonna go
through their assignments

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at the same pace.

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I come at it from I have an
assignment that I want them

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to be able to master
by the end of the year.

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And so my due dates are pretty flexible.

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Because what I'm looking for
most is that skill mastery.

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And even if it's taking a long time,

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that's still giving me data.

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And so what I talked
with my students about

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is one of the best things
about Khan is that try again,

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where they can do it.

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And I can see their score
and they can see their score.

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And we can go over that assignment.

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And then they can try it again.

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To let them know that

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just because they did it
and got a certain score,

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that doesn't mean they're done.

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They have to keep learning it and

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they have to keep that
understanding with them

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as they move forward.

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So, I really like to try again, option.

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One of my favorite things,

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is when I go on and I see
that kid has tried 14 times,

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and then I go up to him
like this is awesome

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that you keep trying it.

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Because we my school in particular,

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we really preach that growth mindset.

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And it's hard to have that
growth mindset on worksheets.

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It's just a lot of work to do worksheets

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over and over again, in my mind.

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I find the students a lot more willing

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to try those five questions or
those seven questions again.

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Because it's easier than
worksheets, in my opinion.

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- Cool, I love that.

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And I think probably now more than ever,

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growth mindset is so
essential for every student

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all across the country
all around the world,

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who is now basically being
asked to keep pushing

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in the face of adversity.

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And Khan Academy actually
has a bunch of activities

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and exercises that you can
share with your students,

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even right away.

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That being said, when you
share out these assignments

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with students, how do
you keep them motivated?

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I know this sort of speaks
to the growth mindset piece

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but like a lot of teachers
have been asking, okay,

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motivation is even hard
in my physical classroom.

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Now, with distance between us,

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how do I keep people engaged,

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even in the face of everything
that we're never up against?

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- One of the things that
I've found motivating

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for the students is that
when, like I tell them,

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they have to reach a certain score.

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And then they can be done and they just,

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they can move on to the next thing.

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And to me, the students
being able to progress

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at their own pace is motivation.

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Like, they can be done as
quickly as they wanna be done

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depending on how much
effort they're putting in

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and how focused and all that.

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So, I think just the
self pace of Khan Academy

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is more motivational for the kids.

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- Cool, and so to that point,

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where you assign multiple assignments

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at a time so that students can
work ahead if they want to,

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as well as focus on just one
if they need that mastery.

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- Yeah, so I usually have like I said,

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for this students with math goals,

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I have them set with periodic dates.

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And so it's like these ones
need to be done by this time,

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these need to be done by this time.

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But as soon as they're
done, they can move on.

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And so like, all have kids
that finish all that stuff,

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and it showed mastery of their IEP goal

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before the year is up,

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which is just a huge point
of celebration for them,

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and then we can continue working

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to continue progressing.

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- Cool, definitely different
ways to slice and dice it.

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It also gives students that runway,

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so they can really start to
take autonomous ownership

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over their learning.

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Okay, so at this point,

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I actually wanna switch gears a little bit

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and take it over to questions
directly from the audience.

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And thank you to everyone who's
been sharing those already.

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If you haven't seen it yet,
you can ask questions directly

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to Chris and get them answered live

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by going to the questions feature

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of the GoToWebinar control panel.

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Right now I'm seeing questions from Kathy,

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and Carrie and Jeanne.

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And we're gonna just take
those as they come in.

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So, submit questions
whatever's on your mind.

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Chris is brave enough
to take them on left,

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right and center, okay.

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So, I think Kathy's first question

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is being answered a little bit here.

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She says, I'm a grade one teacher,

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but I have students in my class who are

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at a kindergarten level or grade two level

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for certain skills.

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How do I make sure that
every student is getting

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what they need, even with
those different levels?

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I think that's kind of
what you were talking about

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with one by one assignments.

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- Yeah, so you can assign
if you have your students

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grouped by ability level, or
however you have them grouped,

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you can assign specific students.

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So, as you're seeing on the screen,

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you can pick what students
are given what assignments

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so you can have a 30 year
class on the kindergarten level

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standard that you're working
on in your first grade class.

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You can have a 30 year kids

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on that first grade standard
that you're working on,

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and you can have a 30 year kids working

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on that second grade level standard.

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So, Khan Academy is beautiful in the way

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that you can differentiate and scaffold

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for all of your students.

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- Cool, hi, so I think
that speaks to that.

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Thanks for the great question, Kathy.

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Little love here, Chris,
from Andrea Anastasia.

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Your fan club is growing.

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So, we wanted to thank you for sharing

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this awesome advice today.

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Let's see here.

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Kathy's asking another good question.

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Is there a way to help
students who are not confident,

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especially about their reading skills,

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given so much of Khan is reading based,

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questions are sort of offered
in this text based format.

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Have you ever had to deal with that

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with your students, Chris.

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- I have a couple students that struggle,

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reading and they on Google Chrome.

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There's just the setting where

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they can read the text to them.

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So, they've been using

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like the computer settings
to have that read to them.

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If you're talking about like right now

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and you may be when be
able to walk them through

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how to turn on that audio.

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It can be something.

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I've had a student already
during this pandemic, log on,

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and she was struggling with slope

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and she shared her screen with me.

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And so I was able to like talk
her through it while seeing

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what she was doing.

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And so that would be an option maybe.

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She's working with first grade

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so that might be difficult.

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I don't know that's younger
than I usually work with.

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I know my kindergartner.

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She's been doing Khan Academy Kids

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and just in this pandemic.

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She has started doing Khan
Academy as her reading

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has gotten better that
she did Khan Academy Kids.

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But when she was struggling
to read what Khan Academy

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was talking about, and
she really loved that,

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and my two year old
those Khan Academy Kids,

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and that's more geared
towards I think kids

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that maybe struggle with reading,

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'cause it's not as literary.

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- Yeah, I'll just second that,

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like my own six year old who says, oh,

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Khan Academy Kids is for
little kids actually loves it

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compared to Khan Academy,
the regular version,

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just because again, it's
like really easy to engage.

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It sort of reads aloud for you.

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And it gets a student
outcry from the beginning

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versus all the sort of a different set up,

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especially for early elementary students.

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So, highly recommend checking that out

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if you're teaching that audience.

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- Yeah, and Khan Academy Kids has like,

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their social emotional health,
like the Khan Academy Kids

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is like a whole child
program in and of itself,

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and I won't get into that 'cause I could.

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But that might be another
option you wanna look into

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if your kids struggle with
the reading part of it.

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- Cool, I love that.

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Okay, great questions, Kathy.

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And thank you Chris for
handling those so well.

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Jeanne is asking a really good question.

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And I've heard this
from a lot of teachers,

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that maybe thanks to
the equity issue or just

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sort of the complexity of
the times we're living in.

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But Jeanne has been
sending out assignments

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to all of our students.

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Some of them have joined her classroom,

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it's hard to do them.

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Others have not actually signed up yet.

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Is there some way, especially
given that we're in this

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remote learning environment,

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where you can get those
students over the hump

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and get them into your classroom?

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Or is there a way to reach students

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who aren't even signed
up with Khan Academy?

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- That's gonna be hard to do remotely.

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I always have the kids sign up
with their like school email.

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So, like our school
district has every kid has

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like a Google or Gmail.

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And so they have like,
Google Docs and stuff.

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So, I always have clicked
sign in with Google.

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And that makes it simpler.

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It's like one less password
and username to remember.

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So, I don't know if that
applies to you that might help

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simplify the signup process.

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As far as getting content out to them.

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On Khan Academy, you can
assign assignments where

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it's every student sees
the same questions.

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And so that might be an
option where you can go

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through that assignment where all the kids

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that are already signing will be seeing

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the same questions as you.

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And you could record going
through that and maybe email it

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out to the kids.

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So, they're seeing the same questions

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and getting the same content.

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That's the tough question, though,

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is like how do you get these kids online

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when you're not sitting right there

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with helping them get online?

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Our district is like
sending home paper packets

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for kids that don't have online access.

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It's, I don't know you could
try to send me video in it

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maybe would be my suggestion
with all the same questions

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and then emailing them out.

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- Yeah, totally.

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I think you nailed it there, Chris,

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'cause it is a tough
thing to do even in class,

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let alone with this
distance in between us.

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One little hack belfer
out there is if you're

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just having sort of trouble
getting folks really

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registered through that whole process,

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you just need to get them
doing something soon.

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So, they don't sort of build those gaps

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into their foundations, you
will be able to notice that

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for every single piece of
content in Khan Academy,

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there is actually a separate URL.

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So for example, if you want
to share out this video,

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or these lessons all about growth mindset,

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you could literally just
copy and paste that URL

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into an email, into her
mind, in the ClassDojo,

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however you normally communicate
with students and families,

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and they can access it
without even registering

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for Khan Academy.

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Now, you don't get the great
tracking and progress reports.

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For the very least, you get
less friction in the process

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and the easiest place to start.

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- Yeah, that's a great point.

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And you don't have to have
a login to be able to do

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Khan Academy which is awesome.

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It's entirely free and it's crazy.

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So, they could just do it without a login

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and maybe take a picture of their score.

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So, they can at least send that to you

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or just email it to you.

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So, you have some bit of information.

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But yeah, they don't have to
have a login to access it.

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So that link that he was talking about

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is everybody can access it,

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whether they have a Khan
Academy account or not.

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- Oh, great question, Jeanne.

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And Chris, thank you for
speaking to that one directly.

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Jeanne's got another tough one for you.

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And Jeanne is curious
about specifically working

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with special education
students who have trouble

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sort of processing
information and getting ready

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to sort of engage with these videos.

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Can you talk about like
what the Khan Academy

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video feature is, how you might use it,

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and how it might serve
students in this audience.

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- So when I use it,

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it depends on the ability
or level of the students.

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A lot of students I work
with, I can tell them to

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watch the video and take notes.

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And then if they don't,
then it's something like,

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that's a discussion we have.

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One of my favorite things about
the videos is the populate

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they say, why don't you
pause it and try it out.

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And that's a great opportunity
for the students to try

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and see whether they're gauging it or not.

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Let's see the videos based
on to me, it seems like the

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based on this centered,
the grade level standard,

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the videos are kind of at that
grade levels attention span.

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So, there isn't that it
seems that eighth grade ones

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are different than the third
grade videos that I've seen.

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One of the things that I
talked to the students about

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and we work on in seventh
and eighth grade is

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I kind of give 'em a taking
form that they can like

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follow along and fill
out because a lot of kids

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just don't know how to
take notes on these videos.

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And when they're in
seventh and eighth grade,

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they need to know how to take notes.

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Yeah, I don't know if I
can answer your question.

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- No, that's awesome.

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I think I'll just add two things.

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Because all these videos are
actually hosted on YouTube,

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you have two really good features.

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Number one, you have closed captions.

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So for students who again,
need a little more support,

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you've got that channel available.

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And you can always turn
down the playback speed.

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So, if students wanna watch
it at three quarters time

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or half time, they can certainly do that.

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And absolutely pause and rewind,
as Chris was talking about.

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So, hopefully that gives
your students some tools

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in the sort of challenging time.

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We have to (mumbling)

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- And I have I've worked with students

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who struggles with math
as like, a gifted reader

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and so like printing off the clothes,

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like the script of the video
and just having her read it

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is unheard of math, it
helps her understand it,

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'cause we're using her
strength of reading to help

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with the struggle of math.

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And so that's one of those
things like you said,

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and I'll print off those transcripts.

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- Cool, that's so awesome.

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Like, I think one of
the things that I really

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wanna emphasize about Khan
Academy is it's really

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just a tool for teachers to use

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based on their existing
knowledge of students.

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And so it's not teaching
your students for you

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just augmenting what you
already know to be true.

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So, if you know that your
students have certain gifts here

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and certain challenges
there, use the tool to fill

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in those gaps and play to their strengths.

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Great question from David.

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And we were talking before
Chris about standards,

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making sure that you're aligned with that.

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How do you find standards on Khan Academy?

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How do you make sure that you're aligned?

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- So they're in Khan
Academy, there's a search bar

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and you can type in a standard
and the standard will pop up

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or if you see on the
video that's right there,

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it tells you the standard
that that video is.

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And if you click on that
right there, it'll open up,

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just kind of like their standards menu.

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And so over here on the left
are all the grades listed.

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And so if I'm working with
a seventh grade student,

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I'll click on the seventh grade.

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Or if I'm working with
the eighth grade student,

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I'll click on the eighth grade.

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And I'll give them a little bit
of the eighth grade standard

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that I want them to work on.

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But I'll if it's an eighth grade standard

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that they need a master
I'll give them seventh grade

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and sixth grade standards
as well to kind of build up

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and that also helps me identify
like the day it happening.

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And so from here too, you
can click on scale drawings

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and it'll up the scale drawing

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And this is GA one.

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And so they have seven things.

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And from here you can click assign.

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And you can assign this
assignment to whatever students

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however many students
are needing seven.GA one.

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- And just like Chris said, you can always

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if you know the standards
have they're burned

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into your retinas or into your mind.

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You can just rattle them off.

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What was it called exactly what you need.

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And I've also shared that
common core map in the chat

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for folks who wanna dig
in a little deeper, okay.

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- Yeah, and so that's why I do it right

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after I write my IEPs

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is 'cause that standard is in my head.

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And so I just do them all
the two grade levels below

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and then leading up to the standard

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that they need to master.

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- Cool, this is a higher
level questions are specific

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to the world we're addressing today.

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Kevin wants to know, how do
you tackle accommodations

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and modifications in this
world of Khan Academy?

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- So, I work with a couple
students that have modifications.

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And so one of them is in seventh grade.

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And so when they're
solving two step equations,

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I'll go to sixth grade,

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and do the sixth grade
equivalent standards

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or even the fifth grade
equivalent standards.

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And so that's just the biggest thing.

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I mean, in general with
accommodations and modifications

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is the relationship you have with the

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general education teacher,

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if that student is in their gradebook,

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so like I have a great relationship

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with the students teacher and I'll

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and like I have a great book for him.

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And so when they're working
on seventh grade equations,

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I'm supplementing in modified assignments

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that are at a lower grade level,

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but it's still working
on the same standards.

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If that makes sense.

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- Okay, cool, yeah, it goes
back to that sort of core thing

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you laid out at the beginning,
which is you can pick

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and choose what's right for your students

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based on what you know about them,

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versus having to have one sort of one size

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fits all approach.

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- Yes, and in even if, like,
this is the conversation

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I have with (mumbling) students
or teachers all the time

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is that you can
accommodate for any student

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that is in your class.

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And so it's, that's the
beauty of Khan Academy

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is that you can, if you really standards,

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and you know what the kids
actually have to know,

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you can adjust from there.

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But Khan Academy is
great for accommodations

00:24:36.980 --> 00:24:39.620
and modifications, because you can assign

00:24:39.620 --> 00:24:42.570
different standards or you can assign

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below grade level standards.

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One of the ways we have
accommodated in seventh grade is

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if you go to the so we
use illustrative math

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and Khan Academy partners
with illustrative math.

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And so under courses
illustrative math seventh grade.

00:25:04.690 --> 00:25:08.967
They have lessons for
illustrative Excel drives,

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you see that there's lessons
one, two, three, five

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all those lessons there

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is we accommodate is the general teacher

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and I go through and see which
ones are the foundational

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of lessons and will say,

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student X is lessons one, two, five, 11.

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And so we're making sure
that they're getting

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all the same standards,
but they don't have

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as many of the lessons
that they have to do.

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- Super smart.

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- (mumbling) done the accommodation is

00:25:47.290 --> 00:25:51.570
adjusting that mastery
level we're asking for.

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So in Khan Academy, each assignment has

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like a familiar rating, a proficient

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and then a mastery rating.

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And then the mastery rating you get

00:26:00.610 --> 00:26:03.483
if you've done the whole
unit and the unit test,

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and so we depending on the students,

00:26:07.030 --> 00:26:10.170
we might adjust where like
the proficient level is 100%

00:26:10.170 --> 00:26:14.070
for that student, because
we're good with the 80%,

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or the 75% that that student is reaching.

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So, just adjusting that
a grade scaling too

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is another way we accommodate.

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- Cool, and then speaking
of that relationship

00:26:26.260 --> 00:26:27.740
with the gen ed teacher,

00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:30.690
Ashley is asking a really
important question, which is,

00:26:30.690 --> 00:26:33.690
do your students belong to
multiple Khan Academy classes?

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You share one Khan Academy
account with the gen ed teacher?

00:26:37.290 --> 00:26:39.390
How do you sort of do that delicate dance?

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- So, the eighth grade teacher
that I was working with,

00:26:46.130 --> 00:26:48.660
we started using Khan
Academy more this year,

00:26:48.660 --> 00:26:53.040
and so I was more familiar
with so I created the class

00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:55.210
on Khan Academy, so all
the students were there

00:26:55.210 --> 00:26:57.830
and I was using that to
teach her how to use it

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in a science stuff.

00:27:00.780 --> 00:27:02.830
But the students were in her class.

00:27:02.830 --> 00:27:04.570
And then I also had some students who are

00:27:04.570 --> 00:27:06.350
in academic academy with me,

00:27:06.350 --> 00:27:09.735
or the students that are
on my service roster.

00:27:09.735 --> 00:27:13.670
They will see multiple
classes on that left side.

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So, it might be gen ed
teacher's classroom,

00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:22.420
my elective classroom,
and then it'll say, like,

00:27:22.420 --> 00:27:25.670
my Mr. Casper students
or something like that.

00:27:25.670 --> 00:27:28.170
And so the students can
be in multiple classrooms.

00:27:29.130 --> 00:27:30.840
You might be able to speak
to this a little bit more,

00:27:30.840 --> 00:27:33.100
but I haven't found a way
to have multiple teachers

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on one classroom.

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- Yeah, no, is it tough point,

00:27:38.120 --> 00:27:39.920
if we're looking at right now,

00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:42.310
but if there's a co-teacher environment,

00:27:42.310 --> 00:27:44.880
special education teacher
and gen ed teacher,

00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:46.540
sometimes they do share accounts.

00:27:46.540 --> 00:27:48.240
You know that's not
ideal, but that's sort of

00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:49.550
where we are right now.

00:27:49.550 --> 00:27:51.830
I will just sort of show you what the

00:27:51.830 --> 00:27:53.840
learner dashboard looks like.

00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:56.520
So, just to give you a
sense of how one student

00:27:56.520 --> 00:27:58.900
can have multiple
teachers on Khan Academy,

00:27:58.900 --> 00:28:00.150
down here at the very bottom,

00:28:00.150 --> 00:28:04.350
under this teacher section,
you can always join any class.

00:28:04.350 --> 00:28:06.740
So, if Chris has his own class code,

00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:08.220
and then the gen ed
teacher in eighth grade

00:28:08.220 --> 00:28:09.840
has their own class code,

00:28:09.840 --> 00:28:13.160
that single student can
easily inhabit both classrooms

00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:14.450
without having to create
a separate account

00:28:14.450 --> 00:28:16.150
or have a separate email address.

00:28:16.150 --> 00:28:18.590
So, that's probably the easiest
way to get folks started.

00:28:18.590 --> 00:28:21.230
And if you're ever curious about
the learner view looks like

00:28:21.230 --> 00:28:23.310
just go to your name in the
upper right hand corner,

00:28:23.310 --> 00:28:25.440
and then learner home,
and you can see exactly

00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:28.030
what students do, okay.

00:28:28.030 --> 00:28:29.790
- Yeah, so those are the other classes

00:28:29.790 --> 00:28:33.090
and our seventh grade ELA
teacher actually started

00:28:33.090 --> 00:28:35.260
using Khan Academy this year, too.

00:28:35.260 --> 00:28:37.720
So, the kids are doing seven good math,

00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:41.030
and I'm in seventh grade
ELA and so they would see

00:28:41.030 --> 00:28:43.050
both their classes.

00:28:43.050 --> 00:28:48.050
And then I'll say even if so if they're

00:28:48.050 --> 00:28:51.220
in the gen ed math teachers class,

00:28:51.220 --> 00:28:55.570
and they're one of my
students in the activity view,

00:28:55.570 --> 00:28:58.970
if you go to students
and you go to activity,

00:28:58.970 --> 00:29:01.210
you can see what their
working on, whether it's

00:29:01.210 --> 00:29:03.880
for your class or someone else's class.

00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:06.500
And so that's another
way to stay up to date

00:29:06.500 --> 00:29:08.730
on whether they're doing
what they need to be doing

00:29:08.730 --> 00:29:11.023
for gen ed math class.

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:13.530
So, you see assignments here,

00:29:13.530 --> 00:29:16.910
so they might see the stuff
that I've assigned them

00:29:16.910 --> 00:29:18.440
under my class.

00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:21.060
And so if then if you
click to activity log,

00:29:21.060 --> 00:29:22.810
you can see the videos they're watching,

00:29:22.810 --> 00:29:26.530
you can see the exercises they're doing.

00:29:26.530 --> 00:29:27.470
And you can see the scores,

00:29:27.470 --> 00:29:29.920
you can see how long
they've been taking on them.

00:29:31.420 --> 00:29:33.190
You can adjust the range.

00:29:33.190 --> 00:29:36.900
And so even if they're not in your class,

00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:39.990
they can add you as their
teacher and you can still see

00:29:39.990 --> 00:29:41.003
what they're doing.

00:29:42.100 --> 00:29:44.480
- That's awesome that way,
you have that total sort of

00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.160
visibility into a
student's full experience,

00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.060
not just your little slice of the pie.

00:29:50.310 --> 00:29:51.620
- Definitely.

00:29:51.620 --> 00:29:52.660
- Well, I know we're at time,

00:29:52.660 --> 00:29:53.950
I know you've got your own kids,

00:29:53.950 --> 00:29:57.170
both your students and your
children to take care of course.

00:29:57.170 --> 00:29:59.350
So, I just wanted to end with
one final question, which is,

00:29:59.350 --> 00:30:01.220
I know there are a lot have
other questions out there

00:30:01.220 --> 00:30:02.750
across the country.

00:30:02.750 --> 00:30:04.730
If you were gonna recommend
one or two resources

00:30:04.730 --> 00:30:06.990
for folks to get help with Khan Academy,

00:30:06.990 --> 00:30:09.440
what's been useful for
you and your own practice?

00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:14.950
- One of the most useful
things is me going on

00:30:14.950 --> 00:30:17.470
and like doing the work of
asking the students to do.

00:30:17.470 --> 00:30:22.170
So, I understand the experiences
that they're going through.

00:30:22.170 --> 00:30:25.130
So I usually try and watch the
videos and do the assignments

00:30:25.130 --> 00:30:26.870
that I'm asking them to do.

00:30:26.870 --> 00:30:28.390
So, when they have questions,

00:30:28.390 --> 00:30:31.250
I can kind of respond a
little bit better to that,

00:30:31.250 --> 00:30:35.450
especially when we're
doing things remotely

00:30:35.450 --> 00:30:37.790
and I can't be standing
next to the computer

00:30:37.790 --> 00:30:39.383
when they have their question.

00:30:41.540 --> 00:30:43.440
And then I think the biggest thing is,

00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:44.920
it's not gonna be perfect.

00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.650
Like I started out by
just like trying things

00:30:47.650 --> 00:30:50.563
on Khan Academy and then kind
of refined it from there.

00:30:52.460 --> 00:30:53.743
The kids do it like.

00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:56.520
As long as kids are on Khan Academy,

00:30:56.520 --> 00:30:59.360
it's not gonna hurt them,
I think would be my advice.

00:30:59.360 --> 00:31:01.330
Like, just get them on.

00:31:01.330 --> 00:31:05.473
And then I really push
it as a resource 'cause

00:31:05.473 --> 00:31:06.810
I work with seventh and eighth.

00:31:06.810 --> 00:31:09.300
And so I really harp on that,
it's a good resource for them

00:31:09.300 --> 00:31:12.890
when they go to high school,
because of that search tool,

00:31:12.890 --> 00:31:15.690
if they don't understand
something that they're doing

00:31:15.690 --> 00:31:17.700
in high school, they can go in

00:31:17.700 --> 00:31:19.140
and they can search that topic.

00:31:19.140 --> 00:31:21.623
And they'll see videos
and they'll see exercises.

00:31:22.910 --> 00:31:25.150
So, it's a resource if
they don't understand

00:31:25.150 --> 00:31:28.110
and it's an incredible study tool.

00:31:28.110 --> 00:31:31.330
Conversation I have over and
over again with the my students

00:31:31.330 --> 00:31:34.340
is that to study math, you're
not just looking at notes,

00:31:34.340 --> 00:31:37.270
you have to do the problems
over and over and over again.

00:31:37.270 --> 00:31:40.800
And that's why it's
another great resource.

00:31:40.800 --> 00:31:42.310
- I love that, especially in this moment.

00:31:42.310 --> 00:31:46.200
We're all sort of like living
day to day, crisis to crisis,

00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:48.290
taking that long view of, hey,

00:31:48.290 --> 00:31:50.260
our students have a
big road ahead of them,

00:31:50.260 --> 00:31:51.770
how do we set them up for success,

00:31:51.770 --> 00:31:54.120
even with the roadblocks
are facing this moment,

00:31:54.120 --> 00:31:55.900
and kind of definitely be a part of that.

00:31:55.900 --> 00:31:59.050
So, Chris, I wanna thank you
so much for taking time away

00:31:59.050 --> 00:32:01.920
from your own class, and your
kids to share your expertise

00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:03.310
across the country.

00:32:03.310 --> 00:32:04.370
I wanna thank everyone else

00:32:04.370 --> 00:32:07.440
for joining in and investing
time in this session.

00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:11.250
Wish you a lot of luck and
success on this tough road ahead.

00:32:11.250 --> 00:32:13.020
And if there's anything
we can do to support you,

00:32:13.020 --> 00:32:14.460
please just let us know.

00:32:14.460 --> 00:32:16.240
Thank you so much.

00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:17.390
- Thanks for having me.

00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:19.273
- Bye, all.