For parents: Setting a daily learning schedule for middle school students

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- Hello all, and welcome to
Khan Academy for Parents,

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6th through 8th Grade
Remote Learning Webinar.

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I'm Meaghan Pattani,

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I lead US Professional
Learning here at Khan Academy

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and I'm joined today by two
of my wonderful colleagues,

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Roy Chan, who's a member
of our US District

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Partnership Team, and
he works with teachers

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and communities all over the US,

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and Dan Tieu, who's our
director of marketing,

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and he's also working with
families and communities

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to help instill best
practices for remote learning.

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What we'll cover today is how you can keep

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your children learning
during school closures,

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and some best tips and
practices for setting up

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a daily schedule for
students to use Khan Academy.

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One note of what we
won't be covering today

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is account setup, or how to get started.

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This webinar is not gonna
walk through how to set up

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an account for you, or for your student.

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So if you're looking for more information

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on how to get started with Khan Academy,

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please see our Remote
Learning Quickstart Guide.

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And these slides and all of the resources

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that go along with them
can be found in the handout

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on the right hand side of
your GoToWebinar panel.

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Just as a quick note that
Khan Academy is free,

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trusted, and flexible.

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We're a nonprofit with
a mission to provide

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a free world-class education
for anyone, anywhere.

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We have standards-aligned
practice and lessons covering

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K through 12 math, grammar,
science, computer programming,

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history, AP courses,
official SAT practice,

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and a lot more.

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And your students are
able to learn on the web

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or on our app through iOS or Android,

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at anytime, anywhere,
in over 40 languages.

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So what type of content is available?

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In addition to full coverage for math,

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our content library also includes things

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like American history, computer
animation and programming,

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grammar, Growth Mindset, which
is built in collaboration

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with PERTS at Stanford,

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high school biology, and
storytelling which is created

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in partnership with Disney and Pixar.

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So where would students find content?

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Or where would you find content?

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By clicking the left-hand courses menu

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on the top left of the Khan Academy site.

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You'll have access to
our entire content menu.

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Or, you can select edit courses

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from the student's
homepage to access content

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and then click continue.

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The content that's originally
suggested to your student

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will be based off the
grade level they selected

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when they set up their account.

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So let's talk a little
bit about daily schedules

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for 6th through 8th graders.

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Khan Academy has been sharing
schools closure schedule

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for students across grade levels,

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but we're gonna be focusing
on what we think of

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as a middle school range in the US,

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our sixth through eighth grade students.

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And here's a quick overview
of what we recommend.

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The areas covered in green
are gonna be the areas

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that we focus on a little
bit more during this webinar.

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These are what we think of
as academic areas in the day.

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So starting in the morning, we recommend

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that students get up, get dressed,

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yes, actually get out of their PJ's,

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and then focus on their math skills.

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One of the reasons we recommend that

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is that students and teachers have said

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they feel like their
brain is ready to work

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and that they're energized
and able to work on math

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more effectively in the morning.

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Now, definitely feel
free to adapt this to you

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or to your students, but
again, this is a recommendation

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from many of our teachers and students

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that they feel like the
morning is the best time

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for them to focus on math.

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And based on your child
or student's grade level,

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we recommend one of the
following math courses

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as a good place to start.

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Sixth, seventh, or eighth grade math,

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Algebra 1, or geometry.

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If you feel like your
student, you're not quite sure

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where they should start,
and you want to put them,

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on grade level, but you
know that they already know

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some of the material, they
can use course challenges

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and unit tests to accelerate
through material quickly.

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All of our math content
is mastery-enabled,

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and it covers standards from kindergarten

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through early college.

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It includes instant feedback,
step-by-step solutions

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like you're seeing on
the screen right now,

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that students can select a hint

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and see a step-by-step
work-through of that exact problem,

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but also offers instruction in the form

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of videos and articles.

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Practice for single skill
in the form of exercises,

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or assessments in the form
of quizzes, unit tests,

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and course challenges,

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all the while tracking
progress at the skill,

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unit, and course level for students.

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After math time, we
recommend students get out

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and go for a walk or run.

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If the weather is bad, try
something like JustDance.

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Find a reason to get up and get moving.

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Then maybe take some time to read.

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Khan Academy has compiled a list of books

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for the sixth through eighth graders.

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If you click on that link,
you'll see specifically

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what those recommendations are

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from our teachering community.

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Again, take a short break.

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It's really easy for
students to get caught up

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in wanting to do all
the work that they have,

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but it's important that students
get up from their screens

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and are able to move around.

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Then we recommend jumping into
some English language arts.

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While we have a full grammar
course, and it may say

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third through fifth grade on the content,

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we've seen students from
kindergarten through high school

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benefit from working
on our grammar course.

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If maybe that doesn't
appeal to your student,

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try our storytelling course.

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Our grammar course, like our math courses,

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is mastery-enabled.

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It covers over 100 grammar skills,

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and similar to our math courses,
it has instant feedback,

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step-by-step solution,
instruction in the form

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of videos and articles,
practice, and assessments.

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Similar to our math courses,
if you feel that your student

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is able to accelerate quickly
through some of the material,

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have them engage with unit
tests and course challenges,

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and they'll be able to move
through that material quickly

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and then focus their time
on skills they may need

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more practice with.

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We also have some new beta content for ELA

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which covers standards in
second through eighth grade

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reading and vocabulary.

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What this means is this
is an early version

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of some new content that's
coming for each grade level,

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and it's broken out for
second, third, fourth,

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fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.

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So you can have your
student practice on specific

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grade level appropriate questions,

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including instant feedback,
and work rationales

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for every question.

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And the passage topics
are grade-appropriate

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in areas of science, social studies,

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and social-emotional learning.

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To supplement our ELA content,
students are also encouraged

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to engage with our
Imagineering in a Box course,

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which is created in
partnership with Disney.

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This allows for project-based learning,

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and for students to get
a little more creative.

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It includes things like
a behind-the-scenes look

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at how artists, designers, and engineers

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work together to create Disney parks.

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It includes instruction
aspects of videos and articles,

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and project-based activities
to design their own theme park.

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After lunch, we recommend
that students engage

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in some science and or social studies.

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Our science courses allow
students to look at things

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like what is a virus, and
how might the human body

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respond to that?

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Or look at our history courses

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to align maybe some historical aspects

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that align with things that
are currently happening

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in the news, or how
countries are responding

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to the pandemic.

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Our high school biology
course, like our math

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and grammar course, is mastery-enabled,

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covering introductory level biology topics

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including areas that are
middle school-age appropriate.

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It includes instant
feedback and work rationale

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for every question, instruction
in the form of videos

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and articles, practice
exercises, and assessments

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in terms of quizzes, unit
tests, and course challenges.

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Our US history course
is also mastery-enabled.

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Excuse me.

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It includes instant feedback,
instruction, and practice,

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just like our other
mastery-enabled courses.

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In the very end of the afternoon,

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what students would think
of as the normal end

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to their school day, we
encourage students to engage

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in some enrichment content,

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things like maybe Code.org Express course,

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or Khan Academy's computer programming,

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or our Growth Mindset content.

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Our computer animation course
is an interactive course

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that demonstrates how
traditional school subjects

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such as math, science, and the arts,

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the a vital part of everyday work

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put into Pixar's filmmaking process.

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For many students, this
answers the question

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of why am I doing this?

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And our interactive units
range from the art of lighting

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to set and staging, so it
allows students to apply

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the concepts that they're
learning in their academic courses

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into something in the real world.

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Again, they receive instant
feedback, step-by-step solution,

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instruction, and practice.

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Finally, our growth
mindset content provides

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a structured way for
students to explore the idea

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that they in fact can learn anything.

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It includes units on
the brain and learning,

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working through frustration,
and making and learning

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from mistakes, and setting goals.

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It includes instruction
in the form of videos

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and articles for students,

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and also includes teacher resources

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that you as a parent can use
to help guide your student

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through these growth mindset activities.

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If you're looking for more
tips and best practices

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for remote learning, we
also have some resources

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around seven tips for
effective remote learning

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to help support students,
teachers, and parents

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during this time.

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Now, we know many of you have questions,

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and we're going to take the time now

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to go through those questions,
as I hand it over to Dan.

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But please feel free, that if
we don't get to your question,

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or if you have additional
ones, to reach out

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to our help center, where we have answers

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to frequently asked questions,
as well as a community space.

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- Thank you, Meaghan.

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Hi everyone, I'm Dan,

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and I'll be moderating the
live portion of this Q and A,

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and I wanted to give a shoutout to Roy

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for manning the submitted questions.

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Before we get into the live
section, as Meaghan said,

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we have a limited amount of
time, so we're not gonna get

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to everybody, but rest
assured, afterwards,

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the team does look over the questions,

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and we try to surface the
ones that are really important

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and that are frequently
asked, and we do update

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those documents as we go along.

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So the two steps we'd asked you to follow

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before we go to the live question portion

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is first go to the handout
section of this presentation

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and grab the download.

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It contains guidance to
everything that Meaghan

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just walked through, between an overview

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of the available content
for middle schoolers

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to the suggested schedules
and the framework,

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and you can always modify
those to meet your needs,

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as well as many of you
have seen links throughout

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the presentation, and so you'll have links

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to all those resources as well.

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And then a second thing I'd ask,

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if you have any questions please put them

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in the question box now,
and I'll do the facilitating

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while Meaghan actually does the hard work

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of answering the questions.

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So we have quite a few
questions already coming in.

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We have one that actually
I can answer first,

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which is, "Is the suggested reading list

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"available on the site someplace?"

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So, right now in the daily schedules

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we do have some lists
of recommended books.

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We are early next week
gonna have a separate page

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with an updated reading
list organized by category.

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So come back on probably
Tuesday or Wednesday,

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and we'll have that available for you all.

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So Meaghan, we have a
question from Jacqueline

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who asks, "What does
mastery-enabled course content

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"mean on slide two?"

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I think that's a fantastic question,

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and we get that question a lot.

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- Yeah, thanks Dan.

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Jacqueline, that is a
really common question,

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and a really important one.

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So bear with me, this is gonna
take a minute to go over.

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So when we think about Khan Academy

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and the way we encourage
students to learn,

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we're really founded in the
principles of mastery learning,

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that students learn at
their own time and pace

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if given the right content
that fits their needs

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and so that students can fill in gaps

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in areas that they might
have struggled with

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or missed learning in the past,

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and can also accelerate ahead to areas

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that they're really strong in.

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And so because Khan Academy
is founded in this belief

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of mastery learning, our courses
that are mastery-enabled,

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and we're working to bring
even more of our courses

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to be what we call mastery-enabled,

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it allows students to see
specifically how they're doing

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in each individual skill, the
unit, and the entire course.

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By using those practice
exercises and assessments

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in the form of quizzes,
tests, and course challenges,

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students move from not
started, to attempted,

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to familiar, to proficient, and mastered.

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And all those levels mean
is how well the student

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is demonstrating their understanding
of an individual skill.

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And so for students to achieve
those high levels of mastery,

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they have to be able to
demonstrate their understanding

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of a skill in multiple ways.

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And so when we say a
course is mastery-enabled,

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it means it has all of these
pieces that allows a student

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to learn at their own
pace, and to demonstrate

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their understanding so that
they are able to understand

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areas where they may need more support,

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or areas where they're
ready to move ahead.

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- Great.

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So Meaghan, this is pretty related.

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So a question from Yvette
asks, "If my children are

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"in a GATE program, a gifted
and talented education program,

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"how would I determine which
courses are best for them?"

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And I think this is a
question whether your child

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is in an advanced state, or if your child

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needs some remediation
in a specific subject.

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I think it's relevant
for multiple audiences.

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- Yeah, you're absolutely right.

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And this is a question we
get obviously for gifted

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and talented students, but
I think for all students,

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parents, you're being asked

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a really tough challenge right now.

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Where does my student start at the moment?

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This has been student that
your teachers have been

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working with your students
all year, but now you're

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kind of dropped into the middle.

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And so our first recommendation

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is look for guidance from teachers.

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If the teachers have
provided specific guidance

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or where the student
might already be working,

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definitely leverage that.

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So if you know your student
is in an algebra course

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and they're part of the way through,

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we would recommend looking
at the algebra course

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and then taking the course challenge,

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and what the student does
is they get a mixed review

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of questions, and it'll
highlight very quickly

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areas for the student to
work on, and areas that they

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already know the content.

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If you don't have a good idea
where your student might be

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based on either feedback from the teacher

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or the course they're registered for

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then you can either A, look
at something like grade level

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content, so our courses
for math in particular

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are broken out by grade level,

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so if you had a sixth grade
student, we might recommend

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that you start them on sixth grade,

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or you can start them a grade behind

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if you feel like you
know that there's a lot

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of gaps for them.

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The other alternative is to
look at some of our courses

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that cover a couple
different grade levels,

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so things like arithmetic
cover multiple grade levels

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and give students a better
idea of where they might fall.

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But again, I would circle back

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to if you have recommendations
from your teacher,

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they know your students really well,

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so I would start there, and
then recommend on grade level.

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If you feel like your
student needs to step back

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or move ahead, again, they
can use those components

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of the course itself to
either spend more time

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on specific learning,
using videos and articles,

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and then engaging with the
practice, or if you feel

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like they're really strong,
they can accelerate quickly

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by using the unit tests
or the course challenges.

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- And I would just add,
Meaghan, that it doesn't hurt

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to review materials that your
child is already proficient in

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and in fact, one of our teacher educators,

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Tim Vandenberg, recommends for his class,

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he starts everyone at kindergarten level

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and just have them quickly
roll through the course

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and really hit there so
that they can progress

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and fill in the Swiss
cheese gaps that they have,

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and so everyone really
learns at their own pace.

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- That's great, Dan.

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And what we find with teachers,

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and we think at the beginning of the year,

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we often encourage them to
engage with something similar

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so that students can build
confidence in using Khan Academy

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with something they already
know before they get

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into challenging material.

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So I think it's a really
great recommendation, Dan.

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- So Meaghan, we have
a question from Matilda

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who asks, "For the math
program do you recommend

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"the students start with
the unit test or quiz

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"before they do the
practice first, just to see

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"what they already know, or
to start from top to bottom,

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"but doing the practices
and going down the list?"

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- Sure, I think it's a
little bit of preference.

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Some students really prefer
to build up their confidence

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with the individual
skills first, and then go

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to the unit test because
the unit test will cover

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all the skills in the
unit, and that can be

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really intimidating for students.

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However, in this unique situation
that we're in right now,

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if you're not sure where to
start with your students,

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or they think they might know part of it,

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then if you're not sure where
the student should start,

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I would recommend starting
with the course challenge

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or the unit test, so to
help the student identify

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what they should focus on.

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If they already know what
unit they're working in,

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they I might recommend
going from top to bottom

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because it's designed for
students to build confidence

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and build skills on top of
each other so that they feel

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really confident and
can make great progress.

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- Great.

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And so Meaghan, these
next series of questions,

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one from Lily and one from
Meeta, I think all parents

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are asking this question,
it's really around

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how much parental assistance
would you recommend

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or would you say is
required to help your child

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through these courses?

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- So, I think that's a
really tough question.

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So first of all, we all
know you're doing double

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or triple duty right now,

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being a full-time parent
and a full-time employee

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and now a full-time teacher.

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So, one, we're definitely
not expecting you

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to know all of the content
for your student's math course

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or science course or computer programming,

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whatever it is they're
using Khan Academy for.

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We do find if you want a
little more content knowledge,

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we're finding a lot of parents find it

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really challenging and
exciting to learn alongside

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their student, and I was a
classroom teacher for nine years

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and I can say that one of
the most exciting things

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for my students was to
admit, you know what?

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I don't know the answer to that.

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Why don't we work through it together?

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So if you're looking to give support,

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don't be afraid to
engage with your students

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and say, you know what?

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I don't remember how
to multiply fractions.

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That's totally fine.

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It gives you an opportunity to show them

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you never stop learning, and
something to learn with them.

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The idea with the schedule I
think to address that question

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a little more directly, is
the schedules are designed

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to help the students stay
on pace, but they're still

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gonna need support from someone else,

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and so Khan Academy,
while a wonderful tool,

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is not meant to replace
the teacher entirely.

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And so we do recommend
that there is some support

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given to the student as
they work through this,

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so if you can encourage
your student to work

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within that schedule, or maybe take time

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to discuss the reading
you're doing together

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and maybe some of that
recommended reading,

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so it is meant to be used
with a parent or guardian

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or some sort of supporting
figure along with them.

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Though we would think at
the middle school age level

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they would be able to
follow a great majority

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of this by themselves.

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- Yeah, and I would just
add onto that, Meaghan,

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I think where you as parents
are particularly useful

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in this case is to help provide
structure for your learners.

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I don't think, it's been
a while since I've done

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any geometry or algebra, so
it's not like we expect you

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to remember how to do
differential equations

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off the top of your head.

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I think it's more about
helping the schedule

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and helping to motivate your child,

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and providing that level of a support

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versus actual subject expertise.

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- Excellent.

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- So Meaghan, we have a
question around, from Diane,

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"Would you mind sharing where we can find

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"the course challenge in order to identify

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"where the learning
gaps and successes are?"

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- Sure, no problem.

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So I'm actually going to

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move over to the Khan Academy site,

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and I believe you all should
be able to see my screen

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in just a minute, and so I think this is

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a really important question,
because we do often

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offer this as guidance.

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If you don't know where
your student should start

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they can take the course challenge.

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And so let's take Algebra 1, for example.

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If I'm a student and I select courses

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in the top left of my site,

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I can see all the courses
that are available

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to me as a student.

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And let's say I'm going to take Algebra 1,

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and I choose Algebra 1
from the course list.

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This will bring me to the
course page for algebra

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and shows me all of the
content that's available.

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If I scroll all the way down
to the bottom of the page,

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you'll see this box that
says course challenge.

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And here, if I click
start course challenge,

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it'll pop up with, excuse me, 30 questions

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that are on skills throughout the course.

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And so here I'll be
offered, again, 30 questions

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that cover a variety of skills throughout

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the entire course.

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We do expect this to take most students

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30 to 45 minutes to
complete, so if this is where

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you feel like is the best place
for your student to start,

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make sure they have enough time to do so,

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and I would also recommend that
they have a couple of tools

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with them, things like pencil
and paper, or a whiteboard,

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because they're probably
gonna need some space

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to work through those problems.

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And then once they complete
the course challenge,

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it'll show them in their
results some skills

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that they're really strong
with, and some skills

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where they might need some more support.

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And what will happen in the course itself

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is they'll have indicators
with little sparkly star marks

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of areas for them to
focus on, so students know

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after they take the course challenge,

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within Khan Academy itself, they'll know

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where to focus their time.

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- Great.

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So here's a question that
actually I can answer,

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so question from Lauren,

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and the question is, "How
should I use the supplement,

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"and what," I guess, "How should
I use this as a supplement

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"to what our school district is giving?"

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And in terms of how do use this, sorry,

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we created these schedules
early on in this process

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before others were made
available, and so we were

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really trying to fill a void
that we saw existed out there.

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We would say, recommend that you defer

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to your school district's
recommendations first,

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and actually really modify
this to fit your needs as well,

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so if there are gaps that
you feel like you want

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your child to follow, do that.

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But this, by no means,
is meant to override

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what your school district
or your school is advising.

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Great question though.

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So Meaghan, we have a
question from Vivian who asks,

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Hi, I'm the mother of an
eighth grader who's quarantined

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"at home right now.

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"I'd like to know what
good strategies I can use

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"to help my child stay
motivated in learning.

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"She's sloppy with her schoolwork,

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"because most of the
assignments is not mandatory."

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- Yeah, I think this is
something that is not exclusive

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to parents right now.

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We're seeing this with
a lot of our teachers.

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First of all, middle school is really hard

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and it's hard to keep students motivated

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even in the classroom,
let alone now that they're

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working remotely, and that
you as a parent are trying

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to instill in them the
commitment to still learning

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when they're not in the
physical brick and mortar space.

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And so some things we're
finding are motivating

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with students either sharing
maybe that connection

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to what things that they're learning are

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to greater things in life,
so in some of our careers,

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or in some of the engineering resources,

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showcasing connections for students.

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One of the more external
ones that we're finding,

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teachers are doing this,
but I think it's applicable

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to anyone, is that finding
ways to motivate their students

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in things like doing challenges,
or little fun videos,

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or fun activities, that maybe are outside

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even your own comfort zone to get students

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and say if you're willing
to make 10% progress

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in seventh grade math, if
you make that progress,

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I as your parent will let you
paint my fingernails green,

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or things that you can't necessarily buy

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but might be really funny.

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So we've seen a teacher, for
example, do the TikTok flip

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where their daughter
was putting on makeup,

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and then he changes and he's
putting on the makeup instead,

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so just funny little things
that again are really appealing

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to your student or your
child, but again it's not

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necessarily bribery, per
se, but student that's

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really creative, or something
that might engage them

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to say I'm putting in this
effort, and you're putting in

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the effort with me to do so

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the other thing that I'll circle back to

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that we talked about earlier
that we find is motivating

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for students is someone willing
to learn alongside them,

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so again, that idea that we
definitely wouldn't expect you

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to remember all of your
geometry or seventh grade math,

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but that you're open with
your student in saying

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why don't we learn this together?

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Why don't we go back and
learn something together?

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Or, if you learn your
math, maybe we'll sit down

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and try this intro to
JavaScript class together,

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and learn something new together?

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So making it something that you are doing

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as a family as opposed to
something that the student

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has to do in isolation.

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- Great.

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We have two questions
that are kind of related

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around the breadth and
extent of our content.

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So Debra asks, "Do your
grade level classes cover

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"an entire year's worth of questions?"

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And then kind of related
to that, Marci's asking

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once their child completes
all of the eighth grade

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course challenges, will
Khan Academy automatically

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move them up to the next level?

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- So when we talk about breadth
and depth of our content,

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we do most of the courses are
expected to take a full year.

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So if you're looking
at a full math course,

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like sixth, seventh, or eighth grade math,

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that is expected to
cover all of the skills,

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or the great majority of
skills, that are in that course

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according to common
course state standards,

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so all of our courses are common course

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state standard aligned,
and the breadth of that

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is what is expected for
that course completion.

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So the answer to that is
yes, it's supposed to take

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that long, and we have
teachers work on things

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like setting a goal for
students on what they would

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expect to complete for the
year, we expect them getting

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to 80 or 90% of mastery
would be what we would expect

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a student to accomplish in a whole year.

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So I wouldn't expect
your student to complete

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all of seventh grade math
in the next three weeks.

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That seems like a really
big unattainable ask.

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And, I'm sorry, what is the second part

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of that question again?

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I apologize.

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- So the question is once,
the first part was do we have

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enough to cover the whole school year,

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which is the answer is yes,

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and the second question is
if their child does complete

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kind of the whole grade, all
of eighth grade, for example,

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do they automatically
move on to the next level?

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- Great.

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So students are encouraged
to go to the next level,

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however, students have
access to all of the content

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at all time.

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So if students are working on,

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let's say seventh grade
content, and they see

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that they are struggling
on particular skills,

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they have the opportunity
to go back and look

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at the foundational skills
for that in sixth grade,

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or fifth grade, and they
can access that content

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at any time.

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The same thing is true
if you're moving ahead,

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so when they finish seventh
grade, they're encouraged

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to move to eighth grade.

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The program won't force them to do so,

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but they're encouraged
to go to eighth grade,

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and they could continue
to go to Algebra 1,

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and geometry, so they have
access to the entire library

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of content at any time anywhere

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so that once students complete one thing

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they're able to move onto something else,

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so they never run out of content to study.

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- Yeah.

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And just as much as
they can advance forward

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if they feel like they need to remediate

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something in the past,
they can always look

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at last year's content as well

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and do that type of review.

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So Meaghan, I think we have
time for one more question,

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and a lot of parents
are interested in this,

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so Jennifer asked, "Is
there a way to follow

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"the child's progress remotely?"

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- So very important question, and yes.

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And so there's a couple
ways you can do that,

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but we recommend you
create a parent account,

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and then you can link your parent account

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to your child's student account,

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and you can follow their progress.

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So you can know what they're working on,

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how much time they're spending on it,

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and what progress they're making.

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And so for more information on that,

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again, while we didn't
cover it in this webinar,

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it's included in the slide,
is a link to our parent

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Quickstart Guide, and
that will walk you through

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how to set up a parent account,
and you can connect that

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to your student, or if you
have more than one child,

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students, and you're able
to follow their progress

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and their learning
experience on Khan Academy.

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- Perfect.

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Well thank you Meaghan
for sharing your expertise

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with our audience, and
then thank you audience

00:29:45.430 --> 00:29:48.330
for taking the time out of your
busy evening to be with us.

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We know you're extremely busy
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00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:52.713
of you all.

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So first, at the end of this presentation,

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00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.960
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00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.900
And then secondly, we ask
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00:31:06.900 --> 00:31:09.120
you'd like to hear next.

00:31:09.120 --> 00:31:11.430
We created this session
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00:31:11.430 --> 00:31:14.740
in feedback from our first
high-level presentation

00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:17.630
where many of you asked for more specifics

00:31:17.630 --> 00:31:20.140
around a schedule, as well
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00:31:20.140 --> 00:31:22.550
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are definitely listening

00:31:22.550 --> 00:31:25.070
to your feedback, and we
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00:31:25.070 --> 00:31:27.220
more valuable resources for you,

00:31:27.220 --> 00:31:29.980
and we're here to support you.

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So in closing, we just wanted to recognize

00:31:32.620 --> 00:31:34.640
that you're juggling a lot right now,

00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:37.650
both as parents, as educators,

00:31:37.650 --> 00:31:40.360
as well as working
adults, and this is really

00:31:40.360 --> 00:31:42.500
uncharted territory for all of us.

00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:45.360
And so we here at Khan Academy
just want to remind you

00:31:45.360 --> 00:31:47.130
to be kind to yourselves.

00:31:47.130 --> 00:31:50.670
It's okay to miss one thing or another,

00:31:50.670 --> 00:31:51.770
and we're here to help you,

00:31:51.770 --> 00:31:54.790
and we just know that you've got this.

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So from all of us at Khan Academy,

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thanks again, and goodnight.