I'm Sal Khan, founder of the not-for-profit Khan Academy,

and I'm here to announce a nationwide

back to school learning challenge called LearnStorm.

LearnStorm is an exciting way to jump start

your school year around learning activities.

It's designed to motivate your students

and to help build their growth mindset.

- This year was amazing with LearnStorm,

I had a group of students that couldn't add,

subtract, multiply, or divide fractions.

They avoided it at all costs,

but since it was an assignment,

they would try it and they would eventually do much better.

And what was amazing was that the lower achieving students

were able to see that they were part of something huge.

They were able to contribute, (cheering)

and that, I thought, boosted their self-confidence,

their self-esteem, and I didn't realize

that would happen after doing a LearnStorm.

(cheering) (clapping)

(warm bouncy music)

- LearnStorm is a good way to differentiate

and as well as motivate.

And with the growth mindset pieces,

you can also educate them about

why it's important to learn,

how they learn, how their body is set up to learn,

what strategies help them learn.

It's amazing, it's amazing and it's free!

(laughing)

It's free!

- We think this is really going to motivate your students

to understand, to appreciate that they truly

can learn learn anything.

The activities have been designed

to have measurable gains in learning attitudes.

- One thing I learned from the growth mindset activities

is that your intelligence can grow

just like your muscles can grow

and that's something that really stuck with me.

'Cause I didn't know that before.

- I did over 300 lessons in one week.

I felt proud of myself, getting all of these good grades.

- It helps the students tremendously,

their confidence is higher,

they're able to do it and it warms my heart

that they think that way now.

And they know that they can keep going

and keep growing and nothing will stand in their way.

- So together, as we jump start the school year,

I look forward for all of us living the LearnStorm motto,

to keep going and to keep growing.

(all chanting "Go and cheat!")