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  • - Hello, welcome.

  • We are so glad to have several of you,

  • a few hundred already, here today,

  • and really appreciate your time.

  • My name is Dave Herron.

  • I work on our team that supports teachers

  • and school districts at Khan Academy, and I am joined today,

  • about two miles away, from her home in San Francisco,

  • by my colleague Vicki Lang,

  • who is a learning scientist on our team.

  • So hello, Vicki.

  • And I'm also joined by my colleague Dan,

  • who helps lead our marketing team

  • from San Mateo, California.

  • Hi, Dan, and he will help actually, me,

  • surfacing some of your questions all throughout the webinar,

  • and we'll leave the last few minutes of the webinar

  • to answer as many as we can.

  • And so you'll see a question tab on the GoToWebinar panel,

  • and if this is your first webinar with us,

  • then go ahead and take a look at that,

  • and at any moment when a question pops into your head,

  • please put that in there so that we can do our best

  • to answer as many as possible.

  • We're here to spend the next 30 minutes or so

  • on the topic you should be seeing on your screen.

  • Some of you may have found yourself over the last

  • four or five, six weeks, maybe,

  • suddenly as homeschool teachers, in addition to

  • all the other responsibilities you're balancing.

  • We know it is a whole lot to juggle.

  • Here at Khan Academy, we have created daily schedules

  • and now weekly math learning plans

  • to try to support you as you support your kids

  • so that they can stay on track as much as possible

  • in their math courses, as well as other courses,

  • that they may be missing in school.

  • And so we're here to break down these plans for you,

  • and I wanna thank, before we move on,

  • some of the key supporters who have been providing support

  • to Khan Academy so that we could increase

  • the amount of support we're providing throughout this time.

  • And you'll see those names there on the screen.

  • Our main goal is to break down the plans for you,

  • explain all the ins and outs

  • of these weekly math learning plans, and again,

  • answer as many of your questions as possible.

  • And before we move on, I'm going to start a poll

  • to see how familiar this audience is

  • with the learning plans that we're talking about.

  • So take the next few seconds,

  • once it pops up on your screen,

  • to tell us what best represents your familiarity.

  • Are you I've never seen them before,

  • I'm here to learn, or I've seen them,

  • but I have not used them with my kids,

  • or finally, I have started using them already with my kids.

  • We'll take about 10 more seconds.

  • If you haven't yet, fill in your vote.

  • Three, two, one, about two-thirds of you

  • have submitted your vote, and here's where we're at.

  • Over half of you have never seen

  • these learning plans before, so thank you

  • for joining despite not having that past familiarity.

  • We'll walk you through how to find them.

  • And then the others, about a quarter, have seen them,

  • but haven't started using them,

  • and we do have some maybe intermediate or advanced users

  • who have already started using them with your kids.

  • We'll be really appreciative of any feedback

  • or questions that you have since you're already

  • started using them, and we have a survey

  • at the end of the webinar if you wanna give us more advice

  • on how we can improve them and move forward.

  • So given that over half of you have never seen them before,

  • let's start with a pretty basic question.

  • I'll take this one, Vicki.

  • How do I even find the learning plans to begin with?

  • If you go to our website at khanacademy.org,

  • on the very home page, which you should see an example of

  • on the screen now, there will be a blue banner at the top.

  • That links you to some of our remote learning resources.

  • And if you click that link, you'll be brought

  • to that page that's shown on the right side of the screen,

  • where one of the main options are the weekly learning plans.

  • That will give you access to all of the learning plans

  • that we've created so far.

  • We have them at many different grade levels for math,

  • and we recently published a high school biology

  • learning plan as well.

  • They are all in a format that's very easy to print

  • if you do have a printer accessible for you.

  • We know the learning plans for kids are often helpful

  • to have in print form, and so when you open it,

  • you may notice the formatting looks different

  • than the regular Word document,

  • but that makes it easy if you press control-P

  • or whatever the shortcut is

  • on your computer to print those out.

  • You might be multi-tasking right now

  • and following those steps to access the learning plans,

  • and just those two other quick reminders.

  • I should've mentioned this right at the beginning,

  • but there is a copy of these slides

  • available to download as a PDF within the browser

  • that you have available, and then second,

  • we're recording the webinar,

  • and we'll send you a copy of the recording soon after,

  • within a few hours after the conclusion.

  • Let's move on, though.

  • Who are the plans for?

  • What's the big goal or idea behind these plans, Vicki?

  • - Well, as you said, they're for students

  • from 3rd grade through high school for mathematics,

  • and then we also have one for high school biology,

  • and they're really for providing a clear goal

  • for what to work on week to week.

  • We know that it's great to set a large goal

  • of being ready for next year when school starts again,

  • and it can also be really helpful in reaching that goal

  • to break it down into smaller steps.

  • We're breaking that goal down

  • into week-by-week-by-week steps to get you ready,

  • or your child ready for next year.

  • On the next slide we can see that the real audience

  • for this is folks who's districts maybe

  • have not provided enough support,

  • or you're looking for something a little bit beyond

  • what your district has provided for you.

  • This is an overwhelming time for school districts.

  • What they've been able to provide has really varied,

  • and we wanna make sure that everybody

  • has access to a plan that they can use

  • to make sure that your kiddos

  • are ready for school next year.

  • - Perfect.

  • And as you mentioned, these are far more specific

  • than the daily schedules that we've put up.

  • I know we're receiving this question already

  • in the chat room that think of a daily schedule,

  • saying, maybe at this time per day,

  • you can work on this course, if you're in 6th grade.

  • The weekly learning plan is gonna get way more specific

  • on what unit and what the actual goal could be

  • to complete by the end of it.

  • So let's talk about that.

  • What would you need to know about the learning plans

  • to just even get started on that first day with your kids?

  • - Well, if we look at a sample, and we can look

  • at that 6th grade sample learning plan,

  • and I'll just show you how it's structured there.

  • At the beginning, there's gonna be some instructions

  • about how to use it, as well as,

  • you can see it says click here for explainer video.

  • That's a short video where Sal talks more

  • about what to do with it.

  • And then there's some instructions here

  • about how you're going to get your kids started.

  • Let's, for example, talk about a kiddo

  • who was supposed to be finishing 6th grade right now,

  • will be entering 7th grade next year.

  • They've already learned probably

  • a lot of the 6th grade content, so this is gonna explain

  • to have them start with the course challenge

  • to earn credit for the things that they already know,

  • and Dave will talk more about that in a few minutes,

  • about how that mastery system works,

  • and the course challenges works,

  • but they're gonna get credit for

  • what they already know by taking a pre-test.

  • And then they're going to, in the system,

  • have a to-do list of work that they haven't mastered yet,

  • and that's gonna map onto this table here.

  • So what you're seeing in this table

  • is the 20-week version of finishing 6th grade,

  • and the 20 weeks will take you right up to August

  • to when 7th grade would begin.

  • And in this table, you'll see that each row is a week

  • with an end date on Friday,

  • and then the color changes represent

  • a different unit of instruction that's starting.

  • So for example, in this one, in the first week

  • that student would take that course challenge

  • to pre-test out of some of the content.

  • Then they would begin the ratios, rates,

  • and percentages unit, and they would be aiming

  • to get about 600 points that week in that unit.

  • The next week they would continue work on that unit.

  • It's a pretty big unit.

  • They would aim to get to 1200 points.

  • That's another 600 points for a total of 1200.

  • The following week, they would aim to get to 1900,

  • and they would move on to the next course,

  • or to the next unit, I mean.

  • You're going to wanna decide

  • between the 20-week and the 12-week options.

  • If you would keep scrolling down here,

  • you would see that there's a 12-week option

  • that has you finished by the end of June.

  • And that just depends on how much time you wanna invest.

  • You're gonna be able to fit in a little bit more content

  • if you're with the 20-week option,

  • but we wanted to make sure that if you wanna spend

  • only a shorter amount of time and get to maybe

  • the time when the school year would typically have ended,

  • that you're able to hit all the really high points,

  • so that's what the 12-week one does.

  • And then if you keep scrolling, you'll notice

  • there's another pair of tables,

  • and these are for a foundational learning plan.

  • So those first two tables tell a 6th grader

  • how to finish 6th grade.

  • The second pair of tables give you a plan

  • for our arithmetic class, which is a foundational

  • skills class that supports 6th grade.

  • So if you have even more time

  • that you wanna invest in 6th grade,

  • or if your student is struggling a little bit

  • with 6th grade, you might have them also work

  • on this arithmetic course to build

  • some of those foundational skills to support it.

  • And that's kind of what you need to know there,

  • and then if we look here, we can see that

  • the most important time in getting these learning plans

  • off the ground, or really,

  • in getting anything off the ground with a kid

  • is the first two weeks, the beginning of it,

  • where you wanna really establish your routine

  • and get into a pattern with it.

  • And you can, things that can help you with that

  • are making the plan physical.

  • If you do have a printer, print it.

  • If you don't have a printer, sketch it out

  • on a piece of paper.

  • Make it a place where they can write and interact with

  • and really see on the refrigerator or somewhere,

  • and making it a clear habit,

  • where there's a routine to it.

  • First, I'm gonna check my goals.

  • Then I'm gonna open and do some work.

  • Then I'm gonna record my progress every day,

  • at the same time every day, maybe.

  • And with that, let's see if Dave can tell us

  • a little bit more about the mastery system,

  • 'cause those tables really are grounded

  • in getting to about 70% mastery on each of those units,

  • so we need to understand what those points are

  • and how you get mastery and how that would work.

  • - Absolutely, so as Vicki just showed,

  • there are references to different point goals for learners

  • all throughout these learning plans.

  • And we know that it is motivating to have a clear goal,

  • but it's also, I'm sure, helpful for you

  • as the parent or adult to just be able to know

  • how those points are maybe calculated

  • and how to encourage your kids to achieve those goals.

  • Let me show you a few screens.

  • This on the screen right now is our 3rd grade plan.

  • This would be 3rd grade common core,

  • and on the left-hand column are all the different units

  • in our 3rd grade math course.

  • And on the right-hand side are all the points

  • available for each unit.

  • Every unit has a certain number of skills,

  • and every skill is a hundred points.

  • In the unit at the top, maybe it's worth 800 points.

  • It's got eight different skills in it.

  • Those points are really important

  • for understanding the learning plans,

  • because all of the goals reference unit mastery points.

  • The other thing I wanna mention is Vicki alluded

  • to the course challenge.

  • If we were talking maybe in September

  • or near the start of a school year,

  • then a course challenge may not be

  • the first step for a student

  • if they're just getting started on third grade.

  • But considering that it's springtime

  • and that your kids have already learned a lot

  • of math this year, the course challenge could be

  • a great way for them to quickly place out

  • of some of the skills that they're already confident in.

  • So I would guide your kid to click on the course challenge

  • as the first step, and it will scroll them down

  • to the very end, actually, and they'll get started

  • on that mixed review of all the different skills

  • from throughout the year.

  • Just remember to remind them that it's totally okay

  • if you don't know these answers,

  • 'cause they'll include some from the later units

  • that they may not have learned yet.

  • I also wanna show a brief video that goes over

  • some of the other learning experiences for students

  • so that I can explain a bit

  • about what you might be seeing in the next few days.

  • Here I'm, as a learner, clicking on that blue button

  • just a minute to start in on a lesson.

  • Here we're in addition and subtraction within 100,

  • and there's gonna be a bunch of learning resources,

  • our videos and articles,

  • and then there's gonna be practice resources.

  • So I'm clicking on that first practice problem set.

  • The practice problems, some of them are gonna be

  • only four problems, some seven.

  • The longest might be 14 if it's like

  • a lot of procedural fluency.

  • And if I'm stuck on a problem, what I just did is

  • I clicked on a video.

  • It was listed right there, because it's really

  • closely aligned to the practice that I'm doing.

  • If I'm done watching the video,

  • and now I know how to do this problem of 92 plus 3,

  • then I can answer it, 95.

  • If I'm still not sure, I could get a hint.

  • And the hint is gonna mark the problem wrong,

  • 'cause it gives away the answer,

  • but encourage your kids to take hints.

  • When you look at the research,

  • the kids that take more hints,

  • even though they're getting the initial problem wrong,

  • they end up making faster progress over all.

  • I'm getting the questions right.

  • I'm getting instant feedback on this.

  • You might see the little dots at the bottom

  • of the screen turning green, so I've got a few more to go,

  • and if I do get to a 70% or higher,

  • then I'm gonna get points.

  • In this case, I'll get half the points for that scale, 50,

  • so that's contributing to that goal in the learning plan.

  • And I'm just about to finish with the last problem,

  • and because I'm about to ace, I think, this problem set

  • and get 100%, I'm gonna get

  • almost all the points for this scale.

  • So there should be some confetti

  • that rains down from the ceiling.

  • I just received 80 points.

  • Not quite a hundred, because there's just one practice set,

  • and I haven't shown that I still understand it

  • when it's mixed in with a whole bunch of other concepts.

  • But I'm on my way towards my goal for that week.

  • So if I go back to the unit overall,

  • then I'll see here in the top left corner,

  • I have now a total of 240 points.

  • So I know that was brief,

  • but that's kind of the three-minute version

  • of our mastery system.

  • I think it's closely related to a question

  • we've already been hearing a lot,

  • how do I know if my kids are on track?

  • We do have parent accounts

  • that you can create on Khan Academy.

  • When we designed those parent accounts,

  • it was in a pre-covid world,

  • where we did not expect parents

  • to be homeschooling en masse, and so the amount of detail

  • you'll find on there will be helpful

  • for getting an overview of how much time

  • your kids are spending and what they've worked on recently,

  • but it's not gonna give the detailed points

  • that you might need to tell

  • if they're on track for the learning plan.

  • Instead, what we recommend is just having your kid

  • maybe once every few days, maybe once a week,

  • whatever might work for you,

  • showing you their screen and talking about how it's going,

  • and then you can look at the points together

  • and turn it into a conversation of sorts.

  • Here again, on the right-hand, I'll see the point values

  • for each unit, and that, if I'm just to sort of

  • do a crosswalk for the learning plan,

  • then on the screen, you'll see intro to multiplication.

  • I currently have 660 points.

  • So I've written that in there in pink,

  • into the second week of the learning plan.

  • I'm so close, but good news, in one-digit multiplication,

  • I have 1,050 points, so I've exceeded my goal.

  • The last one that I wanna talk over is

  • how you might help your kids when you are stuck.

  • I taught 9th grade algebra one

  • for most of my teaching career, and even though

  • I was a math teacher, if I was asked by someone

  • more of a 4th grade level on how to break down a skill,

  • it would be tough, because it's hard to know

  • how to teach something at that level,

  • given what they understand currently.

  • So don't feel the pressure that you have to be the teacher.

  • Instead, if they come to you and they're stuck,

  • and they're saying one topic's really confusing,

  • one strategy we recommend is just to watch

  • one of our videos with them

  • to see how you might go about explaining it.

  • Chances are, after that video, you will understand it

  • quite a bit better than your own kid,

  • and that might help you, then, coach them a bit

  • on the next few problems.

  • If they seem just stuck on one specific problem,

  • again, we recommend they take a look at the hints.

  • They'll have multiple hints available for each problem,

  • so they can get just the first bit of the solution,

  • and maybe then, they'll have enough

  • of what they need to finish out the problem.

  • Or they can click all the way through to the answer.

  • But there is another scenario where you might anticipate

  • just high levels of frustration.

  • Maybe your kid gets a lot of math anxiety,

  • or maybe they just have, are already proving

  • to have a tough time as they try to transition

  • to this really difficult learning environment

  • of learning from home.

  • If you think that they are gonna have

  • some of that general frustration,

  • you'll see on the screen a list of our different courses.

  • You might decide that you're gonna start a level earlier,

  • build their confidence, and as Vicki mentioned,

  • these plans are designed from 3rd grade to algebra two.

  • If your kids are more at a kindergarten,

  • 1st, 2nd grade enrollment, or math level,

  • you might consider also checking out

  • some of the math resources from Khan Academy Kids.

  • Back to you, Vicki.

  • - Unmuting.

  • How do we keep our kids motivated

  • to follow through with these plans week-to-week?

  • Well, motivation for kids, or for anybody, really,

  • is about value, what value are you finding

  • in the activity that you're doing?

  • We're not motivated to do things

  • that we don't think are valuable.

  • It also can be about agency.

  • We're sometimes not motivated to do things

  • that we feel like we don't have a choice about,

  • so the key here, really, is to think about

  • what do your kids value?

  • What's gonna make it interesting and exciting for them?

  • And what's gonna make them feel like

  • they have some choice and some ownership

  • over the work that they're doing?

  • On this slide, there's a couple of suggestions here.

  • You could take on a challenge in parallel with them,

  • so that the value comes in spending time together

  • with a parent who is also modeling learning.

  • You can use a simple reward system.

  • You can give them some choices about

  • when in the day they work on it,

  • but for a full webinar on motivation for your kiddos

  • during this crisis time, we're gonna have

  • a full webinar on that next Wednesday, April 29th.

  • We also are going to have a webinar on motivating

  • and managing multiple kiddos

  • on different schedules on May 4th,

  • and we had a webinar a few weeks ago on structuring,

  • it was called Structuring the Day

  • for Kids Two Through Seven,

  • because we did it with Khan Kids,

  • but what's really communicated there is structure

  • and choice and connection and keeping your kids motivated

  • and kind of bought into learning

  • by how you might schedule some choice into their day.

  • And so there are some other resources there for you.

  • But next Wednesday, motivation.

  • And then I think a big question here

  • with these learning plans for me if I was a parent,

  • I am a parent right now, but if I was using this at home,

  • would be that the first week has already passed

  • in the learning plans, or maybe this doesn't work

  • for my kiddo in some other way

  • in the way that it's structured.

  • How can I adapt it to meet the needs of my own child?

  • You might need to a different number of weeks, for example.

  • You might need to start from an earlier grade

  • in order to build confidence if you anticipate

  • that your kiddo is going to struggle.

  • You might wanna revise the goal each week,

  • especially if your child earns a lot of points

  • on that course challenge up front.

  • The specific numbers that are week-by-week

  • and those goals might not make sense,

  • or your child might find that they get to a week

  • where they've already earned most of the points

  • in that unit from the course challenge,

  • and so maybe they can work

  • a little bit ahead to the next week.

  • We really want you to take what's here as just inspiration

  • to be able to design a plan that's going to work

  • for your specific child and your specific situation.

  • Given that the first couple of weeks have already passed

  • that are in the learning plan,

  • you might do something like use the 12-week plan,

  • but start it now, instead of starting it three weeks ago,

  • and it'll take you maybe into July.

  • But really, we want you to just figure out

  • a way to use this idea to build a plan

  • with small goals for your child that will work for you.

  • And with that, I think we're going to take some questions.

  • I'm already seeing lots of great questions in the dock.

  • And I'll turn it over to Dan.

  • - Hi, everyone.

  • Dave, I wasn't sure if you were gonna have a poll

  • before we jump into the questions?

  • - Oh, the poll, actually, we're gonna put

  • as part of a survey right after the webinar

  • on actually your advice

  • on how we might name these learning plans.

  • If learning plan isn't the best thing,

  • we'll get your thoughts on that after.

  • - Perfect, well, thanks, Dave and Vicki.

  • Hi, everyone, I'm Dan.

  • I'll be moderating the live QA portion of this session.

  • Two things to do before we move into the question portion.

  • As Dave mentioned earlier,

  • please download the presentation in the handout section,

  • and a recording of this, as well as the handout,

  • will be emailed to those who registered,

  • and we'll post a recording after this as well.

  • And the recording and the document covers everything

  • from the learning plans, what they're for,

  • some of the recommendations,

  • as well as links to other resources that we have available.

  • And then the second thing we wanna ask of you all

  • is if you have any questions, please add them now.

  • I know there's already a lot of really good questions

  • in the question box, and I'll facilitate,

  • and Vicki and Dave will do the hard work

  • of actually answering the questions.

  • We already have a couple, and Vicki,

  • this one's probably more appropriate for you.

  • Ganesh asks, based on what Sal states today on Axios.

  • Sal was on Axios.

  • Understanding that kids potentially going through

  • a five- to six-months learning loss,

  • and forgetting another six months' worth

  • of potential learning, kids may end up

  • being behind a complete year,

  • what are the practical steps we can do to bridge the gap?

  • And actually, that's why we created

  • these learning plans in the first place.

  • So, Vicki?

  • - Yeah, this just, my heart hurts so much

  • when I think about this.

  • And I know districts are working really hard

  • to figure out what they're gonna do in the fall

  • to make sure that kids aren't falling behind.

  • what you can do as the grown-up in the meantime

  • is to keep your kid practicing in gentle ways.

  • Don't push math all the time in a way that makes them go,

  • "no, I don't want to."

  • But just gently reminding them that math

  • is part of their life,

  • helping them do a little bit of math every day.

  • With my daughter, my daughter is six,

  • and we have a lot of mathematical conversations.

  • When I'm doing something in the kitchen,

  • or when we're picking up her toys, we count they toys.

  • We'll talk about math as we're walking to the park.

  • We'll maybe estimate, does that bush have,

  • do you think it has more than 10 flowers

  • or less than 10 flowers?

  • And just trying to bring in casual ways

  • of talking about math throughout the day

  • in natural ways to your child,

  • and then if you can help them,

  • if they are willing to engage

  • with some online math learning, like what we're providing

  • at Khan Academy, I think that's really, really beneficial

  • to really keep them moving forward

  • with those on grade level skills.

  • But continue really just bringing math in.

  • - Perfect, and Dave, we have a lot of questions

  • around standards alignment.

  • So from Cheryl, she's asking, thank you for doing this.

  • Are the lessons geared toward states

  • with high math achievements,

  • such as Massachusetts or others such as California?

  • And Jeanne asks a similar question.

  • Are these based on particular states' standards?

  • - Yeah, great question.

  • The 3rd through 8th grade,

  • and then the high school curations,

  • those are gonna be common core curations.

  • The rigor of the questions should be aligned

  • with many of the states' summative exams,

  • but you know, be the judge of that

  • as you take a look yourself,

  • and definitely consider combining the resources

  • we have with other things that the district

  • may be providing, other resources,

  • especially some of the open-ended responses

  • that they might be getting

  • good practice on from their district.

  • - Perfect.

  • Vicki, we're getting a lot of questions

  • centered around how much time a student will need

  • for each of these units.

  • So from Cindy asks, how much time approximately per day

  • or per week are the schedules based on?

  • And Lisa asked, for high school algebra one,

  • roughly how much time should a student dedicate to this

  • to complete everything in the 20 weeks?

  • - That's a great question.

  • We designed them with the assumption

  • that your student might spend a similar amount of time

  • to what they would spend in school,

  • so about 45 minutes to an hour a day, five days a week

  • for that amount of time.

  • And the amount of time that it's gonna really require them

  • to work through all the work is gonna depend a lot

  • on how much they already remember

  • and test out of in the course challenge.

  • Some students may move much more quickly.

  • Some students may take a little more time.

  • It also may vary week to week depending

  • on how much they remember in that particular unit,

  • but that's the basic recommendation.

  • - And kinda to piggyback off of that,

  • Stephanie asks how do we know whether to use

  • the 12-week or the 20-week versions?

  • - I mean, that's really just up to you

  • and how much time you wanna invest

  • and whether you want your child to continue

  • to practice math all the way up until school starts again

  • in the fall or only through when

  • the regular school year might've ended.

  • You also might be deciding between the regular

  • or on grade level learning plan

  • and the foundational learning plan.

  • And our thought is you might do both at the same time.

  • You might also choose the foundational one

  • if your child is struggling a little bit more in math,

  • or for specific targeted topics, you might dip into that

  • to support some learning that they're doing

  • in the regular grade level.

  • - And Stephanie's also asking can she switch

  • from one to the other, and I think the answer to that

  • is absolutely, test it out

  • and see what's most comfortable and appropriate for you.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Dave, Elaine asks my 7th grader uses Khan Academy

  • for math all the time.

  • How is this different?

  • - Well, the content should be similar.

  • The student experience on getting mastery points

  • looks similar, as well,

  • but two things might feel different for them.

  • One would be having a really clear goal,

  • and second might be the extra involvement from you,

  • and those, I think, can make a really big difference

  • with the way they engage with math.

  • But again, the actual content

  • and the mastery learning plans, or system,

  • is the same as in regular school year.

  • - And a little bit related to that, Dave,

  • Angela's asking if my child's already doing Khan Academy

  • with his class, would you still recommend him

  • doing the learning plan?

  • - I would recommend having a conversation with them

  • and just seeing how they're feeling

  • about clarity on what they should be working on.

  • If the answer comes back a little tepid of like,

  • oh, we're not really receiving much to work on,

  • because it is pretty difficult for many districts

  • to just get enough learning resources out there

  • in a short amount of time, then this could supplement that.

  • But if they seem to already have a full plate

  • of math practice coming from their teacher and district,

  • then that might be a signal that these learning plans

  • aren't necessary at this time.

  • - And, Vicki, we have a question.

  • We talked about grade level and foundational things,

  • but there's a question, where would you start

  • if your child's working well above grade level?

  • - Yeah, I would start with the course challenge

  • for the next grade level

  • or the course challenge for this grade level.

  • That's a really good way for your child to very quickly,

  • in just about 30 or 45 minutes,

  • get credit for the things that they already know

  • and make sure that they don't create any gaps

  • in things that they don't know.

  • But that's a great way to kind of accelerate progress.

  • - Dave, we're getting quite a few questions

  • on how do I track my kid's progress?

  • How should I think about it?

  • So, Angela Degotti asks, how do you see

  • how your child's doing in these skills?

  • - Yeah, so we sort of touched on this within the webinar,

  • that the data available on the parent dashboards

  • is probably not gonna be as detailed as you're looking for,

  • since it was not created

  • with the homeschool mentality in mind.

  • That being said, you have two options.

  • First option is you could actually

  • create a teacher account and enroll your kid

  • as your own student, and then you will get detailed data,

  • and there's a lot of resources

  • on our site for the teacher data reports.

  • Or you could just have them show you their screen

  • and have a conversation about it,

  • and that's our primary recommendation,

  • 'cause it doesn't require you to know

  • all the ins and outs of our teacher reports.

  • - And I think we have time for one more question,

  • and Vicki, this one will be for you.

  • What's the difference between

  • the super ultra strong foundation plan

  • versus the super fun plan, and then related to that,

  • is the 20-week just more content, or is it the same,

  • but just spread out over a different number of weeks?

  • - Yeah, the difference between the first,

  • I can't remember how we structured them,

  • or what we called them, whether super fun or super great,

  • but the first learning plan, the grade level,

  • 3rd grade course, 6th grade course,

  • is just the grade level content that your student

  • would've gotten at school this year.

  • It's the content from the entire grade,

  • not starting now, but the entire grade

  • in that grade level course.

  • The foundational one, the one that says foundational

  • and the name of it, is a related course,

  • like early math, arithmetic, that has more basic skills

  • that probably have that grade level skill,

  • but also stretch back a couple grades

  • to bring in some core skills to really build

  • a strong foundation of earlier mathematics

  • and math fundamentals, so that's the difference there.

  • I would say try to do both,

  • or lean in to the grade level one,

  • unless you're child's struggling,

  • and then lean in to the foundational one.

  • And the difference between 20 and 12 weeks,

  • they're both the whole course.

  • In the 12-week, we pulled out some of the units

  • that are a little bit less critical.

  • They're still, all math is important,

  • but maybe the less critical for that grade level,

  • and put them as optional at the end.

  • So the 12 weeks just really breaks up

  • the most important key skills from that grade,

  • and then it says, if you have extra time,

  • here's the other units that you're gonna wanna work on.

  • Whereas the 20 week just embeds the whole thing

  • in the order you would normally do it.

  • - Perfect, so I think we're at time.

  • Thank you, Dave, and thank you, Vicki,

  • for sharing your expertise.

  • And we wanted to thank all of you, our audience,

  • for taking the time out of

  • your busy afternoons to be with us.

  • We know you're extremely busy and we appreciate you

  • investing your time in this session.

  • If you missed something or you wanna go back and play,

  • replay something, we know this is a lot to cover

  • in a short period of time, this recording,

  • it will post it tomorrow.

  • It'll be made available for those who registered.

  • It'll automatically be sent to you in an email,

  • along with the presentation.

  • And we do have quite a few other resources available

  • at khanacademy.org, so if you go there,

  • there's gonna be a blue ribbon at the top

  • speaking specifically to remote learning,

  • so you could always check that out.

  • We're making updates quite frequently, every day, in fact.

  • So you can always go to khanacademy.org.

  • And then before we sign off, we wanna ask you

  • to do us one more favor, and please take the poll

  • that pops up at the very end of this webinar,

  • and let us know two things.

  • First, how could we make future iterations

  • of this session even better for you all?

  • And then what kind of sessions would you like to see next?

  • We've been asking this at the end of each webinar,

  • and it's helping us plan what's most useful for you all.

  • Please be sure to do that,

  • and then Dave mentioned the poll,

  • in terms of actually how to name these

  • in a way that resonates with you all.

  • So please fill that out for us.

  • And in closing, we know you're juggling

  • a lot as parents right now.

  • This is uncharted territory, you're asking to be a parent

  • as well as a teacher, and we wanna be here to support you.

  • And one more thing is just we want,

  • we here at Khan Academy want to remind you

  • to be kind to yourselves.

  • These schedules may appear to be a lot.

  • They're really recommendations.

  • Use them in a way that you feel like it's most appropriate,

  • and don't feel pressured to complete all 20 weeks.

  • You wanna try to get through as much as you can

  • in a way that feels right for you.

  • And from all of us at Khan Academy, thanks again,

  • and thanks for joining us, and goodbye.

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