and we're getting better at starting on time.

Thanks for joining us at our lot daily live stream

at our new time that we started yesterday

now today at 12 Pacific through Eastern

and many people are from joining from all over the world.

We're calling this a bit of a homeroom,

because obviously in this time of school closures

and social distancing, people can use

things like Khan Academy at their own time and pace,

but I think we all crave

a little bit of social connection

and a way to to realize that

what we're going through,

the whole world is going through

and as as troubling is the scenario we are in,

as a civilization there's the silver lining is

we I think in some strange way feel more connected

and one real you know humanity

is one group of people right now.

So just for those of you all this is the first time

that you're attending one of these live streams

with this home homeroom that we do every day,

it's really a catch-all for answering questions,

getting announcements out there.

Really just like homeroom in real classrooms.

And it's not just for students, it's for parents,

it's for teachers, it's for anyone else

who has questions of any form.

Just to get everyone up to speed

on what the resources that are already out there

from Khan Academy,

obviously for over a decade

we've been building resources

that start you as early as pre-k our Khan Academy kids app

the it's suitable for students as young as three

all the way up through the first grade,

Common Core Standards up through six year olds

and then on the main Khan Academy app or website

you can for sure get math from kindergarten

all the way through middle school,

high school and the core of college

and also sciences at the high school level,

some humanities at the high school level

and we just launched what we call a beta,

which is almost like a pre-release

of English and language arts for grades 2 through 8.

We also have free SAT practice which is a partnership

with a college board that's in reading,

math and writing.

And we also have topics like economics and others

that I mean I could I could keep going on about.

So those resources were always all there

but as soon as we realized

that the school closure situation was happening

a few weeks ago,

we we realized we have to step up more,

we have to provide more resources.

So that's when we started the livestreams,

we've been running teacher and parent webinars

to help teachers and parents understand

what resources there are and how to get started.

We have also published a schedule,

a little over a week ago

that for students of different age groups,

what could be an indicative schedule for them,

how you can structure their day

leveraging resources from Khan Academy

and other resources including

you know dance videos on YouTube for your PE

or you might want to go outside and run around

or there might be some form of reading lists.

This week some of you all realize

we just did it a couple hours ago.

We are also experimenting with doing academic webinars.

So a few hours ago we ran our first one

which was on algebra and we focused on the topic

of systems of equations

and we had great you know we had a thousand students

participating and we're taking the video

and we're gonna put it on our YouTube channel

and probably promote on social media as well.

So you'll at least see a recording of it

and I hope many of you have a chance

to join some of these future classes.

So with that one thing I want to say

you know where we're trying to put out

all of these resources, but one question

that we're getting from a lot of parents is,

they're just feeling a little bit overwhelmed right now,

how do they focus on things,

you know are they doing a disservice to their children

if if they don't have everything

all figured out just yet.

And the one thing I want to make very clear to you is

no one has it all figured out just yet.

Even in my own house you know

I've figured out some what for especially my older kids

but my five-year-old we're figuring it out

but it is getting day day by day better.

And so I think the important thing

to appreciate as a parent,

there's a lot of things going on right now,

you're working from home,

a lot of people in this situation

where even they might not be able to work now

and then you have to there's childcare as an issue.

And so keep it simple,

especially in the first week or two

it's not the end of the world,

if things are a little bit less structured,

if your kids if you're just having

quality time with your kids

or just whatever it takes to get through the day.

But I think as as we go on,

try to just make sure that the kids get

a little bit of a reading every day,

a little bit of math every day.

We have suggestions obviously Khan Academy as a resource

for both and there's reading lists

for the on the reading side of things,

you know if your kids are old enough

encourage them to journal.

And then over time you could try to layer on more things,

try to do more and more of the types of schedules

we've published, those schedules are not meant to be rigid.

They are meant to be evolving documents.

We are evolving them and you can adapt them

to your own needs.

But this session we wanna make it

as interactive as possible.

So I encourage everyone, if you're on Facebook,

YouTube, Twitter start putting your questions in

and we have a team of Khan Academy folks,

we're gonna be looking at them

and surfacing the questions,

it looks like a lot of people are thinking about.

I also wanna introduce my colleague Dan too,

who's kind of co-hosting this livestream today

and we're gonna actually this is fun

'cause we figured out the technology

hopefully over the coming livestreams

we'll be able to bring different guests in

and people who can help out with this,

but Dan's gonna help he's in contact with the team

that is surfacing the questions.

So please please send send in your questions.

I'll start with one I see Stacy Wilber from facebook says,

can you please put in an adult program

so adults can get their diplomas please.

Stacy that's one of the dreams of Khan Academy.

We don't issue things like diplomas

but I do we do know a lot of stories

about especially adults leveraging Khan Academy

to prepare for things like their GED

or their you know whatever graduate

requirements for high school diplomas they might have.

So that's where we could support you right now.

But it is a dream to one day be able to connect

to work on Khan Academy

to you know real life economic or academic outcomes.

And Dan feel free to jump in.

I see another question from Facebook Shahla Karimi,

says Salaam, I have fifth grade first grade

and something younger daughters,

why when it's a little typo,

they are all acting out

and they are really emotional

since they are home due to virus.

How can I help them?

Well shala that's a great question.

I think right now there's probably

about a billion parents who are experiencing

some version of what you're experiencing including myself.

So I think the first thing to realize

is don't don't beat up on yourself

and think it's just like you're the only person

who maybe you know your kids are acting out.

And especially you know if they have to stay at home,

and they're not getting

as much social interaction as possible.

I'm not a child psychology expert,

I actually hope we can bring some in

into these livestreams, all I can tell you is

try to leverage things like video conferencing,

if you have access to it

so that they can connect with their friends.

We've been doing playdates at home,

obviously with my youngest who's five years old.

We've been moderating his his playdates

with some of his five-year-old friends

which can get a little chaotic

if you don't help them out a little bit,

we've been ensuring that you know

in this time of social distance

you can still take walks and still have exercise outside,

you just have to keep distance from other people.

But we're we're being quite religious

about making sure that we go outside

at least twice a day if we can even if it's raining.

We're getting the umbrellas out

and saying we're going for a walk.

'Cause I think it's really valuable to get that.

And then I think what we're seeing in our own household

is still a little bit interesting sometimes

but just everyone is getting

a little bit used to this new normal

which is obviously suboptimal normal,

but I think things will get better.

We've had a homeschooling parent in the past say,

just try to stick with it,

it does get better, the kids will get used to it.

Obviously the suboptimal situation for everyone.

But the number one thing is also take care of yourself.

Don't get so overwhelmed.

'Cause obviously the more as parents we get overwhelmed

and we'll snap at our children

and then everyone will get stressed out.

So the more that you can kind of keep calm,

whatever it does to get you know,

whatever you do in your life

to get to that meditative state,

give yourself some alone time

so that you'll have that emotional reserve

to to deal with where the kids might

the supports they might need.

Fazlu from YouTube, Faizal Kabirin

if I'm reading it correctly.

This is a crucial moment of coronavirus,

how can a student from Bangladesh

continue his studies online?

Okay, so it looks like Fazul is from Bangladesh.

Thanks for joining us, I think a little late there.

So you know depending on your level of hussle,

I think the the key is

is that you actually you could view

this as a glass-half-full scenario

where a lot of the demands on your time,

especially for younger students

they might have had a lot of social engagements

and other extracurricular activities or homework,

a lot of those have been loosened

and so a place that Khan Academy is a great place

to focus on those subjects

that you really wanna make sure

you have a strong foundation in,

the high school subjects, early college subjects,

biology, chemistry, physics, economics