Welcome to our Daily Homeroom live stream.

As I always explained,

this is a way for us to stay together connected

in this time of school closures.

Khan Academy, we're not for profit,

with a mission of providing a free

world-class education for anyone anywhere.

And we could never foreseen the situation

that we're now founding ourselves in,

but over the last roughly decade,

we've been building resources

that we think can really help you

as a student, a parent, a teacher,

keeps students learning over this a very unfortunate

situation we are going through.

I will remind everyone, before we get

into the mid of today's session,

we are not for profit,

we exist because of philanthropic donations

from folks like yourself.

We were running at a deficit,

even before this whole Covid crisis hit,

and now our traffic is almost three times

what it typically is.

I do wanna give a special thank you

for all of you who've donated over

the last several weeks, and especially several

of these corporations you see here.

Bank of America really stepped up 31st weekend

where they saw that we had a need,

Google.org, AT&T, Novartis.

This is helping a lot, but we need more help.

We are continuing to run at an increasing deficit.

I also wanna give a special thanks to my wife (murmurs)

this is my first Covid haircut (laughs)

I got over the weekend in our backyard.

I think she's got some skills,

obviously I'm biased.

So today we're gonna have a fun session,

I'm gonna bring on two of my team members,

Meaghan and Jeremy, who are former teachers

who have been leading the Webinars

that we keep talking about,

over on these live streams.

And the collectively what we're gonna do,

on Friday we had a fun ask me anything,

where people were asking literally anything,

And now I'm joined by Meaghan and Jeremy,

and you can ask us anything.

And obviously Meaghan and Jeremy are expert at,

how does Khan Academy work in a classroom?

They're the ones running the webinars

and they can talk more about,

some of the webinars are about to run,

common questions they've seen,

but also ask us anything about anything.

So Meaghan, Jeremy, thanks for joining us.

Maybe a good place to start,

Meaghan, I'll start with you.

Tell us a little bit about

these webinars you're running

and what types of things you're trying to get across.

- Sure, thanks Sal.

We are running webinars for teachers

who are transitioning from being

in the classroom everyday with their students

to teaching and learning remotely.

And we've covered everything from,

how to set up your Khan Academy account

to best practices, to even having teachers

who are really exceptional ambassadors,

who are sharing their best practices

for different students in different areas.

So it could be math,

could be English language learners,

could be science.

And so we're having both our team share

some of the things that we know work really well,

along with teachers around the country

sharing their best ideas,

to really form a community of teaching

and learning remotely.

And we have two webinars coming up this week.

One for best practices for supporting students

who are special education,

and one for best practices for supporting

English language learners.

And those are on Wednesday and Friday respectively.

- That's super useful.

And Jeremy, what would you say

that you and Meaghan are seeing as some

of the main, I guess pain points

that parents and teachers are facing,

and what they are finding value in

from these webinars?

- It's a great question.

And we definitely live in webinar mode nowadays,

so thanks to everyone who's been joining us over

the last couple of weeks, as we move

into this new sort of world order.

That being said,

I think what we're hearing, especially

from educators as well as parents,

is the hunger for specificity.

We're now a month into this thing

and this seems to be the sort of the way

the world's gonna work,

at least for the next several weeks.

How do we make the most of this time?

How do we serve our students

and our children the best way possible?

And so what we've been hearing from teachers is,

how do I do that at the elementary level

versus the high school level?

How do I do that in my science class

versus my ELA class?

And so for the last several weeks,

we've been having ambassadors share their specialty,

in each of those different areas

with educators across the country

and around the world.

And next week is no different.

And we wanna make sure that,

whether you serve students in special education,

or English language learners,

you're getting everything you need

to serve those students successfully.

- And what advice...

Meaghan I ask you first,

what advice do you have for teachers who are...

You know, they didn't get a lot of notice,

that they're now trying to figure out

how to transition their class

and teach virtually over Skype, Zoom, whatever.

Meaghan, what's your top tip or top tips?

- I think you're really hitting

the nail on the head Sals,

that we're seeing from a lot of teachers and parents,

and I've observed students as well,

that feeling of being overwhelmed,

a lot is hitting everyone all at once,

and now that we're thinking about this

as being more of a longterm situation.

I think one thing that I would share right now is that,

the focus immediately had been,

how do I use technology with my students?

But really to take a step back and think

about taking those classroom norms

to use in the brick and mortar classroom,

and how you can transition that,

and use your students as part of a community

building process of,

what are the norms we want for our class?

What are the norms we're going to use

when we use a video conferencing tool,

like zoom or Google Hangouts?

What are the things that we're gonna set

into the classroom norms for communicating with each other.

So focusing on building that community

with your students and setting norms and

opportunities for communication first,

and then using those tools, like Khan Academy,

to support those norms and best practices,

as opposed to putting just the technology first.

- And Jeremy, taking the other side on the parents side,

what advice would you have for parents?

I think many of us are in this boat.

I felt it over the last couple of weeks,

so you're feeling overwhelmed,

your kids are at home, you're trying to work from home.

If you have young kids,

they make it difficult for you to work from home,

at the same time you have a list of do's from their school,

that you're trying to take pictures of it

and send it to their teacher,

what advice do you have for parents

who are trying to navigate that?

- All three of us are very much in the same boat.

I know there are millions of other parents

out there who are asking themselves

the same question right now.

My own kids are causing up a storm over in the next room,

so I appreciate their indulgence.

That being said,

I would come back to this idea,

from my early days as a teacher in training,

which is about getting quick wins.

So I know that as a parent or as an educator,

you want to come in and you wanna be a master

of the situation, an awesome parent, an incredible teacher.

But it's tough to do when everything

is changing all around you.

And so what I've been looking

to do with my own kids,

is find one moment in a day,

when we have a really special moment of connection.

Maybe it's not transcendent learning,

maybe it's not massive educational gains,

which is a moment we have maybe a game of 20 questions,

or would you rather do this?

Or would you rather do that around the dinner table?

Where we feel like a family in that moment,

and not just the family and crisis.

And so, I think if you can just pull out

that one moment a day,

really seize upon that and be grateful for that,

that becomes the building block for a routine,

and a family tradition that you can celebrate

even beyond this crisis.

- I really liked that.

One thing that I've started,

obviously there's a certain irony coming

from me or from us,

but what I've really enjoyed is that,

I have one of those little tablet whiteboards

with a whiteboard marker,

and I've just been writing a problem

of the day for my two youngest.

My oldest who's 11, he kinda is doing his thing

and he's pretty productive,

and, and my middle one is okay.

But just writing that problem down

and we sit next to each other on the couch,

it takes 10 minutes, but at least I'm like,

"Okay, they're doing something kind of academic."

And then from there you get that win

and then you can start layering on,

"Hey, if we can do 20 minutes of Khan Academy,

on the math side, if we can just read together.

I'm a big fan of these Bob books,

these early learner reading things

that I do with my five-year-old.

That gets you your wins,

and then we've published things like these schedules,

that you can layer on over time.

And actually a to do for us,

I think is to maybe....

"cause we, these schedules could show

how you can use Khan Academy for fairly full school day,

including breaks and lunch and all of that,

we don't provide lunches, but we can tell you

when they go and they could be.

But I think we also should....

We've been saying it in these live streams,

and y'all been saying it in our webinars,

but I think even in our schedules,

we should probably say,

"Hey, even if you just do this part, you're a superhero."

And everyone else is gravy from there.

And actually I've gotten feedback lately,

that I say the term "Everything is gravy."

And a lot of people, especially

from other countries are not familiar with it.

And so the general idea is that,

mashed potatoes by themselves are enough