I hope you all had a good weekend.

I know, or as good as weekend you could have

given given the circumstances.

For those of y'all who are new to our daily homeroom,

this is really a way for us to stay connected

as we go through this whole crisis together.

Especially the secondary crisis, I guess you could say,

given how many students in the US and around the world

are currently out of school.

As we started to see that a lot of the closures happening,

all of us at Khan Academy as a not for profit

with a mission of providing a free world class education

for anyone anywhere realized that one,

the resources that we have already been working on

for many, many years could be really valuable for teachers,

students and parents as they're navigating these closures.

But we also realize that it's our duty to do more,

to really step up so that you feel as supported as possible.

And so starting with about two or three weeks ago,

we started releasing daily schedules

and everything I'm talking about it's all available

at khanacademy.org.

If you go to the, the page, you'll see banners

and you'll see a modal show up

and you can go to the various resource pages.

But we have things like daily schedules

for different age groups that a lot of people

have found useful, that can walk through

how a student can structure their day,

not just in math but also in reading and writing,

the sciences and the humanities by grade level.

How can they can leverage things like Khan Academy,

kids for the early learners.

We are also on these resources or on our various web pages

putting out webinars that parents and students

and teachers can attend.

You can look at the latest on the resources

if you go to Khan Academy.

But just so you know, we're going to be having

several webinars over the next few days.

April 1st, second and third, we're gonna have a webinar

on, the first one will be for young kids, age two to seven.

This is really for parents

to think about how to set up a daily schedule.

Then the next one will be for elementary students,

ages two to 10 and then for middle school students,

11 through 13.

And similarly we're gonna have teacher webinars

on those days for elementary students,

middle school students and high school students.

So we wanna do whatever we can to support you.

Part of the fun of this daily homeroom

is that we wanna make it as interactive as possible.

Please over whatever you're using to stream this,

whether it's YouTube or Facebook.

But we're also monitoring social media

on Instagram and Twitter.

Ask us questions, this is where we're gonna try

to answer them and we're also gonna try

to bring in special guests over the next few days

and weeks to help answer more and more of our questions.

And so, with that I will bring on Dan, my colleague,

who will help us go through the various questions

and I'll also make one other announcement.

I do this everyday.

I do remind everyone, Khan Academy,

we are not for profit organization,

we are funded by philanthropic donations.

We were already running at a deficit before the crisis.

And through this crisis, our server usage is about 2.5

I wouldn't normally is and obviously we're trying to do

more programs and more services.

So if you are in a position to do so,

please consider donating.

I do wanna give special thanks to everyone who's donated

over the last several days actually, it just turns out

that somebody posted one of our videos,

highlighting our need on Reddit yesterday

or over the weekend and that resulted in a lot of donations.

Thank you.

I wanna thank various corporate partners

who've stepped up in really record time.

Bank of America was the first,

followed closely by 18 T google.org and Novartis,

all of that makes a huge difference,

but I also wanna remind everyone, we still need more.

We're still running at an accelerated deficit

and so we wanna be able to support you as much as possible.

So with that, Dan, let's answer some questions

and please ask us anything on these various,

whatever you're watching this on.

- So sign up today.

We're gonna try to do Instagram.

We're not streaming live on Instagram,

but we'll, we'll try to get there this week.

From Instagram, Gregory Hin asks.

What is the main thing that drives you

to continue making videos free for all students?

- Oh, well, you know, I think maybe,

maybe it's somewhat obvious,

but I'll answer the question anyway.

And to be clear, Khan Academy is much, much more

than me now, we're over 200 full time folks.

There's thousands of volunteers around the world,

who make Khan Academy the work.

And I think I'm speaking for everyone,

including the many thousands, actually tens of thousands

of hundreds of thousands of people

who've donated to Khan Academy.

Many of you, I think the, the, the need to society

of a world where anyone on the planet

is able to tap into their potential, I think.

It's, it's huge.

If you look at almost any other problem in society,

whether you're talking about obviously healthcare

is a topic these days, but if you're talking

about economics, if you talk about safety,

if you really keep peeling the onion on one way

or the other, it does boil down to education.

And if you look at, you know, access to education

and quality of education and what people's living conditions

are in the world, there's definitely a strong correlation

and they obviously feed into each other.

So I personally, I can't imagine, I consider myself

the luckiest person on the planet that I get to devote

as many as, as much of my energies as possible

to this problem or to the solution of empowering folks.

I think it's just a very, very powerful multiplier.

You know, as famous that you can give people fish,

but you can also teach them to fish

and that's what education is really doing.

So that's what drives me day in, day out.

There is another, I would say a layer, a selfish motivation,

if you will, which is I love the creation aspect

and I love, you know, all of these topics that we cover

on Khan Academy are really beautiful topics.

And oftentimes I think, students feel like, Oh, I gotta

go through this and you know, when am I gonna use this?

But I think there's a, there's a joy that we hope

we can bring to students and teachers and parents,

to realize that this is inherently beautiful subject matter.

And it's fun to dive in deep with it.

So, anyway, I'm incredibly inspired day in day out

to be able to serve all of y'all.

And I think everyone, I speak for everyone

on our Khan Academy team, all of the thousands of volunteers

and the many people who've donated like, like yourselves.

- So, so another one from Instagram.

This one, Moogy asks, how is Khan Academy

planning to help AP students study for online AP exams?

Actually where we're working on getting college board

to join you on this homeroom

and some folks internally as well.

- Yeah, no, that's a very relevant question.

For those of you who don't know, you know, the AP,

which are these advanced placement tests

in the United States and some parts of the rest

of the world, these are essentially advanced high school

or intro college level classes that are taken

at the high school level.

And at the end of the year you traditionally

have something called an AP exam.

And depending how a student scores from one to five,

they could get various levels of college credit

depending on where they, where they go to college.

And this year, testing globally has become difficult

because it's not clear that school will be in session

during the test, AP tests are normally in April,

timeframe late April or early May.

And, obviously, other forms of tests

are also a lot of question marks.

So the college board has announced

that they're going to do an online version of the AP,

which is going to be different from previous years.

And what we are doing is we are coordinating,

we're, we're close friends with the college board.

That's another not-for-profit.

They're the folks who administer the SAT and the AP exams.

Khan Academy has always had the official practice partner

around the SAT, but we also have a lot of AP content

around calculus, statistics, biology, chemistry, physics,

microeconomics and macroeconomics, American history,

AP CS principles and civics in government

or American politics.

So, what we're going to do is continue to try

to improve the resources that we have.

And as we get closer to the AP exam,

we're gonna think about partnering with college board

to provide other ways so few people

feel as prepared as possible.

What my recommendation to any student who is preparing,

especially if it's a subject that we have the resources for,

is try to get as close to 90 or 100% mastery

on Khan Academy in that AP subject, in that AP course.

And when I say mastery, you have as much practice

as you need on Khan Academy and you'll,

there's these mastery mechanics

that will keep leveling you up.

You can leverage course challenges

to just understand how well you know the whole course

at this point you can use unit tests to break it down

by unit and then you can keep leveling up

with the, with the various mechanics.

And then as you get closer to the AP test,

what I recommend is we do have worked example videos

of the free response and the best way to consume those

is start at the video, look at the prompt and then pause it.

And I usually do say pause the video

or one of our content creators say pause a video,

try to answer it yourself and then let the video play.

So you get that practice.

And I think if you do those two things,

you're going to be quite prepared.

And we're gonna work with the college board

to get more information out because I know this,

this version of the AP is going to be a little bit different

than what we've seen in the past.

So see other questions we have.

So from Facebook I see Shala Kareema says,

my fifth grade son is a smart student,

but he doesn't challenge himself at all.

He thinks he knows everything.

How can I help him?

You know, I'm not an expert here

and I hope in future live streams we can bring in some,

you know, child psychologists or coaches

or, or whatever else.

My gut sense is, you know,

this all is about growth mindset versus fixed mindset.

And there is some research showing

how to help coach people to a, towards a, a growth mindset.

Based on your description, it sounds like your son

might be falling into a fixed mindset.

Now he thinks, his fixed mindset is, I'm very capable.

I know this stuff.

But even if you're a fixed mindset is one of confidence

that might actually keep you from engaging