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,