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  • - Hey, everyone!

  • Welcome to our webinar.

  • My name is Lauren Quan, and I'm on the Khan Academy team.

  • Today, I am joined by my coworker, Dan Tieu,

  • and our special guest, Conor Corey.

  • Conor is an expert teacher, a parent,

  • and a Khan Academy ambassador,

  • which means he's a Khan Academy power user.

  • He's gonna be sharing his tips and advice

  • on student motivation.

  • But before we get started,

  • I wanted to thank our sponsors,

  • Bank of America, AT&T, Google.org, Novartis, and Fastly

  • for their support of this webinar

  • and our other remote learning resources.

  • And a few other notes for you to know.

  • This webinar will be recorded and sent to you via email

  • a few hours after the session ends,

  • and if you have questions at any point during the webinar,

  • feel free to enter them in the question box.

  • And we have staff available to answer your questions.

  • We're also gonna save time at the end

  • for live Q and A with Conor.

  • And lastly, you might be wondering

  • about the age range for this webinar.

  • So Conor will be sharing tips that can be useful

  • for parents of kids of all ages.

  • So with that, let's get started.

  • I'm thrilled to have Conor here to share his advice.

  • Conor, can you share a little bit about yourself

  • and your background?

  • - Hi, Lauren.

  • Thanks for having me, everybody.

  • Yes, I've now been a math educator mostly teaching

  • middle school math and fifth grade math for--

  • This is my 17th year, and by far this is the toughest year

  • for myself and my students.

  • Right now, I also have four children of my own

  • and it is chaos for myself to teach

  • and try to keep up with--

  • Three of them are in school, one is in preschool,

  • but to keep up with all of their assignments

  • and to keep up to make sure they're handing things in

  • and to fully change the role

  • from not only my students' teacher to my own children,

  • it's been very difficult.

  • And I look forward to the opportunity.

  • Hopefully, I can help and just maybe some of the things

  • that I'm doing around here,

  • but I may not have all the answers.

  • I can kinda just tell you from my own experience

  • with teaching and being a parent at the same time,

  • that hopefully you can see both sides of the spectrum.

  • - Fantastic.

  • And yeah, Conor as you mentioned, a lot of parents

  • are finding themselves stepping into the role of teachers

  • for the first time, and we're hearing so many questions

  • from parents about ways to motivate their kids.

  • So what advice would you give to parents who are wondering,

  • "How do I motivate my kids to be interested in learning?"

  • - It's a great question and it's a difficult question.

  • There's not really one answer

  • that's going to motivate children across the board.

  • Especially for even myself, I'm gonna tell you

  • that all of my kids are eating ring pops upstairs

  • just to avoid me for a half hour of coming down here

  • so I can do this,

  • and many parents are in that same situation.

  • But to motivate students and your own children,

  • I've always kinda tied it to some sort of incentive.

  • And it's never really a financial incentive.

  • It's always just your time or something

  • that they really are interested in,

  • and it does not have to be academic related.

  • It could be something as simple as,

  • you finish all your schoolwork today,

  • then you get to pick tonight's movie.

  • Or my daughter is, I do construction

  • in the summertime usually

  • and my daughter's very interested in power tools,

  • when she sees me building.

  • So I'm teaching her how to use those

  • when she finishes her stuff.

  • I know my wife, who has probably never played a video game

  • in her life, but my son and I will play Madden.

  • He's in third grade and we will play all the time

  • because I'm a giant child.

  • But my wife has started to play against him,

  • and he doesn't care if I play anymore.

  • He wants to play her because it's so different for him

  • to see her in that type of environment,

  • taking interest in what he's interested in,

  • and that has been motivating for him.

  • So I think if you just try to find something

  • your child is interested in,

  • that you usually would not participate in

  • or you kinda let them participate with their friends.

  • You know, they're not really around their friends anymore,

  • so they need somebody that wants

  • to just reinforce their interests,

  • and I think that's a big motivator,

  • and you can kinda tie that to their academics.

  • - Mhmm, I love those creative ideas

  • that you've shared there.

  • Another question that we're hearing a lot is,

  • how do I keep my kids focused and engaged in learning?

  • - Focus and engaged, it's kind of one of the hardest parts.

  • Parents have just been given an unrealistic expectation

  • to automatically become their teacher.

  • To automatically have mastered grade level content

  • in not one subject, but four or five or six subjects.

  • I know for myself as a teacher,

  • I am a master of middle school math,

  • but if you give me an eighth grade biology test,

  • I am not gonna do well. (laughs)

  • So, when you're just pushing all the sudden

  • all of this on parents, they're very stressed out.

  • And their children fully understand

  • that they don't get the concepts or the content as much.

  • My suggestion for this is to try

  • to learn something with them.

  • For instance with Khan Academy, I always tell parents,

  • I did kind of like an experiment a few years ago,

  • where I asked parents to master their child's

  • fifth or fourth, their child's content on Khan Academy,

  • so their child's grade level.

  • And what I found from that was amazing.

  • Most parents have bought out of math after third grade.

  • It becomes, "Oh my god,

  • "I don't know how they're teaching you this.

  • "I don't know this new style of math."

  • But the linear approach that Khan Academy

  • gives to learn anything

  • was fantastic for them to see that,

  • okay this is how they're teaching math.

  • It's just something, if you try fourth grade math

  • and your child may be in seventh or eighth grade,

  • and they're doing seventh or eighth grade,

  • you can kinda do it alongside them

  • for 15 minutes a day, 10 minutes a day.

  • That has been a huge help with understanding

  • where to find relevant content

  • when your child has any misunderstanding

  • because it doesn't have to be in math.

  • It could be in science, chemistry, in history, in SAT prep,

  • all of that is available.

  • But if you're looking for a video to help your child,

  • you may go through Google

  • and you'll have 30 different websites

  • and you start to find one you don't know

  • how relevant or accurate it is,

  • and you're spending so much time trying to find one thing.

  • If you work through something like Khan Academy

  • on a fourth grade level,

  • you'd be surprised how the whole spectrum of education

  • will open up and the understanding will open up

  • of how to find content to help your child.

  • And they're gonna be engaged

  • because they're doing it with you,

  • and they're gonna laugh at you when you get things wrong

  • because you will. (laughs)

  • You'd be surprised how difficult third

  • or fourth grade math can be. (laughs)

  • - Yeah, for sure.

  • - But if they can learn with them is probably the best way.

  • - Yeah, and speaking of.

  • I'm sure it's been awhile for parents

  • for third or fourth grade math.

  • And so if kids, for example, if they get frustrated,

  • do you have any tips for keeping kids engaged

  • if they get frustrated or if they get things wrong?

  • - Yeah, and right now, most children are frustrated.

  • They're used to having an expert in that content area

  • who knows how to teach that content area 10 different ways,

  • and knows how to reach every child

  • and the different learning styles of every child,

  • and now they have just their parent

  • who may not even understand some of the content.

  • And the frustration level for parents

  • and students is at an all-time high in education.

  • Going back to kind of paralleling,

  • if you learn something with your child and practice,

  • and try to teach them the theory of growth mindset,

  • that show them that you're frustrated learning something

  • like fourth grade math,

  • and that they're gonna laugh when you get things wrong,

  • and that you try it again the next day,

  • and you try it again the next day.

  • That theory of growth mindset that we all can learn anything

  • is something that if we teach our children at a young age

  • and at a difficult time right now,

  • will be so important moving forward

  • because we actually don't know

  • when this is all going to end,

  • and to understanding this platform and kind of practice

  • learning with them.

  • They will see you doing that,

  • and that's gonna cause less frustration for them

  • when you can kind of both laugh at each other

  • that you're working through it.

  • - Yeah, definitely growth mindset.

  • Definitely something that both parents and students

  • will be a valuable skill to build.

  • Another question that we hear as well from parents is,

  • how do I keep my kids engaged if they don't like school?

  • - It's tough right now

  • because I don't know that anybody likes school

  • right now. (laughs)

  • As a teacher, I do not.

  • I'm teaching from my basement.

  • I think I set up a nice little area for myself,

  • but I miss my students.

  • I miss seeing their faces in live time.

  • Students are now being sent assignments across the board

  • from five or six teachers,

  • and parents are now getting 30 to 40 websites and logins,

  • where three of my children

  • that are in the public school system right now

  • each have like 10 different logins.

  • And then you've some people that are sending them,

  • "Oh, here's a new one, try this.

  • "Here's a new one, try this."

  • And it's so overwhelming that you have to sometimes

  • just really take a step back and make sure that your child

  • is enjoying learning and not overwhelmed just like you.

  • And that may take cutting certain assignments out.

  • It may take taking a look through and saying,

  • "We're not gonna do this because--"

  • It took my daughter the other day,

  • five minutes to do a digital assignment that she had,

  • but it was taking her 25 minutes to submit it,

  • and then I'm trying to do it

  • and she's trying to submit it.

  • And she's telling me, "No, we have to put it

  • "on Google Classroom and then we have

  • "to go to this and that."

  • And that is not learning.

  • She wasn't gaining anything valuable about that,

  • so for me as a parent, I just kinda said, "We're done."

  • Okay, you did the worksheet.

  • You did it with me, I get it.

  • We're moving on, and if your teacher wants

  • to send me an email or I could send her one and say,

  • "I did it.

  • "She explained it to me."

  • But they're having them answer questions, some of them,

  • on the little tiny mousepad

  • where they have to write on that mousepad,

  • and that is so difficult.

  • I can't do it, but they're answering one little question

  • that takes 10 to 15 minutes for them

  • just to write the sentence out.

  • I'm like, "Well, she told me.

  • "She understands it.

  • "They're good, it's finished."

  • As the parent you have that right

  • and I think you should use it

  • because the stress level is so high.

  • - For sure.

  • Yeah, and I should point out, I forgot to mention earlier

  • that Conor helpfully summarized many of his tips

  • in a handout that you all can get

  • in your go-to webinar panel under the handouts.

  • So if you wanna go ahead and grab that,

  • I would definitely recommend it.

  • So Conor, we're hearing also from parents,

  • and you touched on this earlier,

  • but what tips would you give for parents

  • who are trying to teach kids a subject

  • that they're not comfortable or familiar

  • with the material themselves?

  • - Accept that you don't know the material.

  • Let your children understand

  • that you don't know the material.

  • And kind of together learn it

  • or together find ways to do it.

  • But what is happening that I see in my own house

  • and I've talked to many friends who call me

  • because I'm the only teacher that they know,

  • is the learning doesn't seem to be happening

  • as much as the handing the learning in

  • and doing these things.

  • And parents with so many logins,

  • they're not sure where to go.

  • They're not sure how to find it,

  • and I think Khan Academy will help with that,

  • if you start to work yourself and learn that platform

  • because I feel next year as we come back to school

  • that every district in the country

  • will be using this platform,

  • and it's gonna give you a head start.

  • So it's not so much about now and having to understand

  • the content that you're teaching,

  • but how you can help your child find the answers,

  • and how you can navigate through and have a spot for them,

  • almost like a one-stop of education,

  • where you know you're going to get relevant information.

  • Then maybe you can watch the video with them

  • and kinda do things with them.

  • We're at a time where we have to start looking

  • that if something like this were to happen again,

  • I should prepare myself for when it happens again,

  • and not worry about getting to June and ending.

  • But more of preparing myself to learn,

  • how to help my child when or if something like this

  • were to happen again.

  • So, I think that majorly master one platform

  • is a really positive thing you could do for your child.

  • - Great.

  • Well I wanted to have plenty of time to answer Q and A

  • from the audience, so I'll turn it over to Dan

  • to service some questions that we've been hearing

  • from audience members.

  • - Yes, thanks Lauren and thank you, Conor for joining us.

  • I'm super excited to have you here.

  • We have tons of excitement and enthusiasm

  • around this specific topic.

  • I ask the audience to do two things

  • before we get into the live Q and A session.

  • First, as Lauren mentioned, go to the handout section

  • and grab the tips and cheat sheet that Conor put together.

  • They're really good tips and you can download it

  • and also just review links to other resources

  • that we've included in there as well.

  • And then the second prompt is to please add your questions.

  • We already have a ton of questions coming in

  • in the message board, so keep those coming in

  • and we'll get to as many as we can.

  • Just ask that you be patient with us.

  • So Conor, we have quite a few questions,

  • one from Kimberly, another one from Pamela,

  • it's really around--

  • I guess some of the kids, ages sixth grade,

  • they're not listening to their parents

  • or they're saying they're doing one thing.

  • They're looking at the assignment.

  • They're caught up in the class,

  • and when their parent actually checks in,

  • you know, that's not the case.

  • So, do you have any advice for that,

  • for parents who are kind of struggling

  • with not being overbearing,

  • but also just being able to keep track of how their kids

  • are progressing with their school, schoolwork.

  • - I think it's important to understand

  • that although they're your children, you know them,

  • they are in middle school and high school,

  • and they're gonna think

  • like a middle school or a high school kid.

  • I know that my own children, my own students,

  • they'll spend an hour trying to beat the system

  • rather than 10 minutes doing the assignment.

  • I mean--

  • I tell a story one time where I was requiring 20 minutes

  • on Khan Academy a night, and I had a student

  • that was doing an hour for almost a week and a half,

  • and I wanted to reward him for his additional work,

  • but there was no progress being made.

  • I could not figure it out.

  • I actually sent something to Khan Academy

  • saying something's wrong because nothing's moving.

  • And then finally, he owned up and said,

  • "I've been putting nickels on one of the actual keys

  • "for the answer."

  • So it shows his activity,

  • but nothing's actually getting done.

  • And he would just leave nickels,

  • a pile of nickels on the thing.

  • I gave him credit because I thought it was genius.

  • (laughs) But the assignments

  • would take you 20 minutes, but for him to do all that.

  • I think it's important for parents to realize

  • they're gonna try to beat the system.

  • For myself, we have a schedule,

  • and the schedule works for us.

  • The first thing we do--

  • Our schedule is in the morning,

  • but for some parents it's not.

  • Everyone thinks that school should be eight to three

  • because that's what it was.

  • But it does not have to be that.

  • It could be at any time throughout the day

  • that works for you, that works for your family.

  • For us, I make my children write a checklist each morning

  • when they kind of check their email,

  • when they check their Google Classroom that--

  • I don't leave it on their computer on their own.

  • They have to hand me a checklist at breakfast

  • of "I have this, I have this, I have this and I have this."

  • And we've scheduled throughout the day,

  • I was discussing with you prior to this,

  • that we have different rooms for each subject in the house.

  • So it is, in the kitchen they do their language arts,

  • and if they're all in the kitchen,

  • I know they're working on language arts.

  • They come to the basement where I'm at right now

  • for to work on their math,

  • and then they go into the living room to work

  • on their social studies or science.

  • But it's a quick way for me to see if they're getting

  • through their curriculum for the day.

  • And also, if I have the checklist, I can kinda say,

  • "Did you do this?

  • "Did you do this?"

  • But I don't have to go onto each one of my children's thing

  • and write it myself and figure out all these things.

  • I have them hand it to me and it's a quick checklist for me

  • and them as well to keep them progressing

  • through what they're supposed to be doing.

  • - So Conor, we have a question from Diane Rodriguez

  • and as the teacher, I think you're, and a parent

  • you're exceptionally positioned to answer this question.

  • Diane asked, "I've been using Khan Academy

  • "with my second grader and it's been very helpful."

  • But her point is that math is being taught very differently

  • than when she had learned it

  • and so her concern is that when they go back to school

  • that she may have been coaching her child in a different way

  • than the way the schools are teaching it now.

  • Do you have a perspective?

  • Should she be concerned about that

  • or how should she approach that?

  • - This is a question that has come actually

  • from years I was a math coach,

  • for a few years in elementary schools

  • and this is why parents buyout

  • because they know how to teach traditional math

  • in addition and multiplication, but then that's not aligning

  • with what they're fully teaching.

  • My suggestion is always to teach--

  • I actually am an advocate for traditional multiplication

  • and long division and I fully grasp the analytics

  • of breaking everything apart and I think it has a true value

  • in understanding, however, I think they have to master

  • certain skills, like their multiplication facts

  • and their division facts, that they have to know them

  • just like they know the alphabet

  • and what sounds letters make

  • or when you start to get in to the older grades

  • with variables and exponents, you really start to get lost

  • because you don't have the foundation.

  • So for me, if you're teaching your child something mathy

  • the way you learned it, I find that to be very positive

  • because that's building a foundation.

  • And then when they go back to school,

  • and maybe they change it up,

  • they grasp the foundation of that.

  • So, to change the way or learn another way

  • to do the same thing, they already know how to do it.

  • So I would definitely suggest, yes, work with your child.

  • Teach them the way that they know.

  • And on Khan Academy's second grade, third grade,

  • it kinda does both.

  • They show in the multiplication and the division

  • and the addition and subtraction,

  • they show the methods of breaking it apart,

  • and they also show the traditional carrying

  • from the ones to the tens column,

  • from the tens to the hundreds column.

  • But I would think if you're teaching them something.

  • There's always value in that.

  • So to continue to do that, and not to try to worry

  • about what the school system has done or is doing

  • because right now, a lot of teachers are required

  • to throw assignments at kids and they're not--

  • When I'm teaching I can see

  • that Suzie when she chews her pen,

  • I know she doesn't understand anything I'm saying,

  • but I can't see that right now.

  • Or when Jacob nods, I know he has no clue what's going on.

  • So I have to stop and kinda go through that with them,

  • and that's what teachers do while they're teaching that.

  • So I would think that whenever they come back,

  • they're going to be fine, especially if you think about,

  • maybe not in second grade, but right around now

  • schools don't want to admit it,

  • but we're in standardized test season.

  • They may not want to talk about the majority of stuff

  • we're doing is just review.

  • We're not teaching really new content,

  • as much as we're reviewing and spiraling the content

  • we've already taught throughout the year.

  • That takes four to five weeks of review

  • and then two weeks of testing, and then we're really getting

  • to the end of the year.

  • So I think it's important to understand

  • that whatever you're doing with your child,

  • reviewing, it's helpful and it's gonna hold value for them

  • as they come back.

  • - Yeah Conor, I wouldn't even be able to teach the new ways

  • of math anyway, even if I wanted to.

  • So, cool. (laughs)

  • Conor, I have a question from Alexis Glika

  • who's asking, "Our child's only willing to do

  • "what the teachers assign

  • "and teachers aren't assigning much right now,

  • "especially in science."

  • So no science content.

  • "Any ideas in terms of how to continue learning

  • "when teachers aren't stepping up?

  • "And she won't hear it from us," meaning the parents.

  • - So this really comes down to yourself as a parent.

  • I think that teachers, we don't know exactly

  • what to do right now either.

  • And we're dealing with parents

  • from every end of the spectrum, just like parents

  • are dealing with teachers from every end of the spectrum.

  • I know teachers that are requiring

  • like two hours of work a day, and I know teachers

  • that are requiring five minutes,

  • and it's how they're viewing what is going on.

  • That if their class was two hours,

  • they should have two hours of work.

  • And other teachers realize that the unemployment rate

  • is at an all-time high.

  • Parents are trying to stay in the house.

  • They're trying to make sure they can put food on the table,

  • and something as a Google Slide assignment

  • may not have that value.

  • I would suggest if you're looking at high school parents

  • and they wanna learn science

  • or they want additional work to increase what's happening

  • that you use something like Khan Academy

  • and try and provide it to them yourself.

  • You don't have to know the content.

  • This is what I mean why it's so powerful.

  • It's free and you can say, "I require you to do 20 minutes

  • "on biology," and that's something that you require of them.

  • You can actually see, did they do the 20 minutes?

  • Did they watch the video?

  • Did they do the practice exercise?

  • And those scores will come up directly to your email,

  • and they could have nothing to do with the school district.

  • But I think we do have to plan

  • long-term for what's happening.

  • Everyone is looking towards June,

  • but I think the most effective thing you can do right now

  • is start to get your children in a routine for this summer.

  • Most of us take off in the summer

  • with education with our children.

  • There's going to be a summer slide every year,

  • but this year, it's so critical not to end in June.

  • To make sure that, it doesn't have to be a full day.

  • It could be, "Okay, every day you do 20 minutes of math,

  • "20 minutes of literacy."

  • And I want that routine to happen

  • throughout the summer also.

  • So maybe, I don't know what standard it is in what grade,

  • but I know you're consistently learning

  • and you're consistently working and I think that's gonna be

  • one of the most positive things that you can do.

  • But we all have the ability to teach our children.

  • We've taught them everything they know.

  • Maybe not academic, but you taught them how to ride a bike.

  • You taught them how to tie their shoes.

  • You taught them manners, how they act in public,

  • and they're watching you right now

  • to see what they should do in this situation.

  • Setting a new routine and realizing

  • we probably are not going back

  • to the way things were anytime soon.

  • - Yeah Conor, I would just piggyback off that.

  • I think part of it's just setting expectations

  • with yourself as an adult.

  • I think a lot of parents are expecting that,

  • as you mentioned earlier,

  • that this is a normal eight hours of school time frame

  • that kids would be doing at home,

  • and I think that's honestly just unrealistic

  • for most parents.

  • I mean one, you just don't have the time

  • between the work that you would have to do,

  • also just all the other myriad things

  • and teachers are in the same position as well.

  • So I think for--

  • We're getting some questions around like,

  • if we're not getting enough assignments,

  • how should we fill in the gap?

  • And I would say, part of it is you know your own ability

  • to fill in the gap as a parent

  • and if you do have the time to make extra assignments,

  • feel free to do that.

  • Use Khan Academy as Conor suggested, if you do,

  • but also with the understanding

  • that it's not a normal school day that your child

  • is gonna be going through.

  • And honestly, that's okay.

  • I don't think the expectation is

  • that you're gonna learn physics

  • and then be able to teach your kid physics in one week,

  • for example.

  • Just be kind to yourself and just have a different set

  • of expectations for now.

  • - And I agree.

  • I think it's important to also realize

  • if you need additional things for a child to do,

  • it does not have to be academic related.

  • Teach them how to build something.

  • Teach them how--

  • Let them maybe paint the room.

  • Teach them how to paint.

  • My daughter has changed, is changing electrical sockets

  • with me because she sees me doing it

  • and I'm always like, "All right,

  • "now make sure the electric's off," and this,

  • but she's interested.

  • So that's something, and that's a skill.

  • If I know when she goes off to college,

  • she's gonna be able, if she needs to,

  • I don't hope that she will.

  • But, teach them how to do their laundry.

  • Teach them life skills that you've done for them so far

  • and try to start to take some of that off of you

  • and teach it to them because everything is not

  • about the eight to three school day.

  • And in that school day, there is lunch.

  • There is recess.

  • There is transition times.

  • There is a movie in the one class.

  • There's different things.

  • It's not eight straight hours of somebody giving worksheets,

  • I hope not anyway.

  • - Yeah.

  • In Khan Academy, we provided daily schedules

  • for families to use and we're advising the same thing,

  • where we're advising to mix it up.

  • So have offscreen activities and that actually also helps

  • with the motivation factor, right.

  • They're not sitting at home in front of their computer

  • for eight hours watching a course.

  • They're actually getting up

  • and mixing up different activities,

  • and I love the suggestion of being a maker,

  • you know, create something.

  • You're still building a different skill.

  • It doesn't have to be academics eight hours a day

  • 'cause honestly that's probably not gonna work at this time.

  • - It's not gonna work for me.

  • Four of them, no way.

  • (laughing)

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

  • So here's a question from Monica in Virginia,

  • "As a parent of a second grader, is it counterproductive

  • "to allow flexibility in scheduling instruction,

  • "following the schedule likened to what the child

  • "was conditioned to when school was in session?"

  • I guess the question is really, is it counterproductive

  • to have a flexibility or is it better

  • to stick to a more rigid schedule?

  • - I do not believe you should stick

  • to the standard school schedule that they're used to

  • because school is not what they're used to right now.

  • It's not like you're going into the school building

  • and changing what happens,

  • but you have to make something that's working

  • for you and your family.

  • For instance, my wife was able to work from home

  • and she's still employed and still working from home,

  • but I always went to school.

  • That was the schedule.

  • I left at 6:30 in the morning

  • and she kinda did breakfast and did all that,

  • and then the kids went on the bus,

  • then she would start work.

  • Well, I'm trying to give her time while I take all the kids.

  • So, I'm doing breakfast and it's kinda funny.

  • It's that they're like, "Oh,

  • "what do you want for breakfast?"

  • They going, "Oh, I'll have eggs, I'll have this."

  • I'm like, "I meant did you want toast or cereal?"

  • I'm not mom. (laughs)

  • But I know that we'll do stuff,

  • but if it's all the sudden nice,

  • if the sun comes out for 20 minutes,

  • we're cutting everything off

  • and we're gonna try to go in the yard.

  • It's been raining here in Philadelphia

  • it seems like every day.

  • Yesterday, they had the Blue Angels

  • actually fly over Philadelphia,

  • so that was like an hour and a half in the middle of the day

  • where we sat in the yard and looked up

  • and did different things.

  • Maybe they did their literacy at six o'clock

  • at night after dinner, or maybe they did it here.

  • As long as they understand what they have to do

  • throughout the day, they're gonna start

  • to manage their time, even at a young age.

  • But to put yourself through that stress.

  • That stress is gonna go right to your child,

  • and when you're stressed and your child's stressed

  • because you're trying to conform to a system

  • that's not working for you,

  • there will not be learning that takes place.

  • And it's why online learning is so popular in college

  • and for parents because they can't conform to that.

  • So, that's why they can't go back to school.

  • That's why online learning has become so popular for adults

  • and graduates, and the same thing's going on right now.

  • - So unfortunately, we're already at time

  • and we have like 1,000 more questions to get through.

  • Perhaps we'll do another follow-up session in the future,

  • but Conor I wanted to thank you so much for joining us

  • and sharing your expertise with our family.

  • And Lauren, thank you for moderating the first half

  • of this conversation.

  • I also want to thank you, the busy parents out there.

  • I know you already have a million things to do

  • as part of your day, but thank you for joining us

  • in this afternoon for this live session.

  • I just want to reiterate, if you missed any part of this

  • or if you wanna go back and review some of the comments

  • and the Q and A portion,

  • we will be posting recording of this webinar live

  • and Conor's tips are free and downloadable as well.

  • And both of these will be emailed to those

  • who have already registered after this as well,

  • along with links to resources at khanacademy.org.

  • So we have a suite of other parent resources

  • that are available on our website.

  • There's a blue ribbon at the top dedicated

  • really to school closures and remote learning,

  • so feel free to visit that.

  • And then before we sign off,

  • we ask you to do us one more favor

  • and take a poll that pops up

  • at the very end of this webinar.

  • Help us answer two questions.

  • First, how can we make future iterations of this session

  • even better for you all?

  • And then secondly, what kind of other sessions

  • would you like to see us develop in the future?

  • We're here to support you.

  • This session was really created because this was probably

  • the number one requested webinar by you all,

  • so we hope to be able to do more of

  • that for you in the future.

  • In closing, on behalf of Conor

  • and on behalf of Lauren and myself,

  • we appreciate that you're doing a lot as parents,

  • and we're dealing with all this, all of us, together

  • with this uncharted territory all at the same time.

  • And we want to remind you as parents

  • just to be kind to yourself.

  • Conor mentioned it.

  • We know you're struggling with just balancing work

  • and multiple kids and trying to be a teacher now

  • and all those things.

  • And just be patient with yourself and that's okay

  • if you mess up here and there.

  • That's what growth mindset is about.

  • It's just making some of these mistakes, learning from them,

  • and then progressing that way as well.

  • So from all of us at Khan Academy,

  • thanks again and good night.

  • - Thank you.

  • Thanks for having me, I appreciate it.

- Hey, everyone!

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