for the "Structuring The Day" webinar

from Khan Academy kids.

Thank you so much for joining.

We're going to get started in just a minute

when folks have had time to join, thank you.

Hi, my name is Sophie

and I'm from the Khan Academy Kids team.

Thank you so much for joining today

for our parent webinar on "Structuring The Day"

and how some of the Khan Academy Kids resources and tools

and support center can help you keep your days moving

with your little ones at home.

I wanna take this moment to say thank you so much

to our sponsors, Bank of America, Google.org,

AT&T and Nevadas for helping us provide this support

during school closures, we are so grateful.

And I wanna just acknowledge all of you parents

carers, grandparents, maybe some teachers

who have joined today.

You're taking the time to figure out ways

that you can make your days

maybe a little bit more structured

maybe meet some more of your goals

and we're so grateful that you're turning to Khan Academy

and Khan Academy Kids at this time.

I am Sophie Turnbull.

I'm from the Khan Academy Kids team

and today I'm really excited to be joined

by two of my friends and colleagues

Vicki Lang and Dan Tieu

and they are both on the Khan Academy team.

Today our big objective

is to make sure you know where to go

to find tools to help you structure your day

and achieve your goals during this school closure period.

We've got a bunch of free resources

and we've got our expert Vicky

joining to give us some tips and tricks.

I think this will be really helpful for parents

who are thinking about ways

that they can help keep their children learning

throughout school closures.

We won't cover in detail

how to get set up on Khan Academy Kids

how to download the app and set up a profile for your child.

And we won't cover specific advice for teachers.

That is all really important stuff

and if you go to the handout that is linked in this webinar

you'll see that on the learning objectives page

we have linked to the getting started guide

and to the teacher guide.

And if that's what you're looking for

then I'd encourage you to check those resources out.

What we will cover is a quick overview

of the Khan Academy Kids resources.

And then we'll spend most of our time

hearing about this idea of structuring our day.

And we'll hear from a pro on how to do this.

And then we're gonna turn it over to you.

I wanna spend at least 10 minutes of today

answering your questions

and hearing from you about what's on your mind

as you try and structure your day with the little ones.

Khan Academy Kids is a part of Khan Academy

but it's a separate app, it's a mobile app

and it was designed particularly for children

ages two through seven.

Just like Khan Academy, it's completely free.

There are no ads, there are no subscriptions in the app.

It is a really rich and educational

and also entertaining experience

for your two to seven year old.

It has a range of activities.

We built it with head start, so it has a lot of the academic

and on academic activities

that are really useful for getting your preschooler,

kindergarten, first grader, ready to go on

and succeed at school.

So it includes math and reading.

Also things like telling the time

and life skills like getting dressed.

It has a huge social emotional learning aspect to it.

Things like understanding emotions

and expressing frustration

which I think is really important during this time.

And it also encourages children to get up

and move around to draw a picture for a friend

and get creative.

It is so much more than just drilling the hot academics

and that's what we hear from parents

and that's what they really love.

During this time of school closures

we have had a think about and we've talked to parents

about what they're finding useful

and one piece of feedback has been the app is amazing.

I'm just really struggling to structure my day.

How much time should we spend on Khan Academy Kids

verses play time or doing other things that are so important

through our day?

And how on earth do I get any work done

in this mind bogglingly confusing time?

And one thing that we have come up with at Khan Academy

is a set of schedules

that just gives you a recommendation, a guide,

a starting point, that educators and parents alike

came together and helped to form

that says, "Maybe you could structure your day like this."

So on this page in your handout

you'll see a template for the daily schedules.

They're the Khan Academy schedules

and they go right from preschool

right through to the end of high school.

So if you've got a child of any age

and you're listening to this webinar

that will be helpful for you.

We've also included this more guidance link

and that is the Khan Academy Kids team

has added some very visual and fun schedules

specifically for children ages two through seven.

And if you're looking for something

where you can actually engage

and build a schedule with your child

then I'd encourage you to have have a look

at those extra examples from Khan Academy Kids.

And we put these schedules out

having heard that they were important

but we could not have prepared ourselves for the feedback

that we got from parents.

One of my favorite quotes

is a parent who says, "I just got teary eyed

"reading the Khan Academy schedules.

"These are fantastic."

Parents just saying that it has really helped them

to get some degree of normalcy back into their day.

And so I really want as many of you all

to access these schedules.

We'll be sharing the handout

and you'll be able to click on those links

and check them out.

But what I thought would be really important

was to acknowledge that they weren't just work

as is for everyone.

And I wanted to invite my friend at Khan Academy

who is an incredible parent and educator

and child development specialist.

I'll let Vicki tell her story.

But I'd love for Vicki to share with you some tips

about how you can really use these schedules

as one tool that might help you structure your day

and some other important things that you can keep in mind

as you're doing that.

So I'll hand over to Vicki.

- Yeah, thanks Sophie.

What a wonderful introduction

and just wealth of fantastic resources

you all have put together at Khan Kids.

My six year old loves it, it's so fun.

So yeah, I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about

the specific schedules that we've put together at Khan Kids.

And sort of the bigger principles

of like what are some things to think about

as you're structuring the day for a young child

especially if you are also trying to get work done

at the same time?

So we're all, I'm living that myself right now.

We're all trying to do 1700 things at once.

Before I launch into that just a little bit about

who's talking to you.

I'm a learning scientist at Khan Academy.

I help all of the teams understand how learning works

and how to design for it.

I've been doing learning design for a long time.

First as an elementary school teacher and then an ed tech

and I am the parent myself.

I'm a single parent of a six year old

and so I have a lot of practice.

She's in kindergarten

a lot of practice doing two things at once.

And living this currently

of her kindergarten being closed.

I'm trying to figure out how to structure this day for her

while also continuing to try to do my job.

So let's look at what some of these key principles are

of what we're trying to do

on restructuring the day for a kid

and why you would wanna put structure on it at all.

If we can go to our next slide.

Can we go to the next slide?

Thanks, well sometimes it freeze up.

I know that feeling, that's a terrible feeling.

So what we're trying to do

the real goal of trying to think through structure

is to create a space where kids feel safe

and secure so that they can can learn and you can work.

Safety and security are good

especially in an uncertain time like how we are right now.

And then it's also true that kids who feel safe and secure

learn better, their brains are more ready to learn

and they're also better able to play independently

when it's time to play independently

so that you can get your work done.

So it's kind of a win win all around.

And that's gonna help

you to be able to get even just a few hours

of work done or not if you're not working.

Either way, it's still good for the kids

to know what to expect throughout the day.

And then hopefully by the end of the day

we can all go to bed still liking each other

and getting along reasonably well by the end of the day

even in this stressful time.

So the big ideas to keep in mind

cause as Sophie said, "Every family is different

"and what works for one family

"isn't gonna work for another."

So I want you to be able to modify

the tools that we're providing

to work for your specific situation.

And as you do that I want you to know what are the big ideas

that I wanna keep in mind going forward as I make changes.

So first clarity and communication

is really helpful for kids.

When kids know what to expect

and what's expected of them, that helps them feel confident.

It helps them feel like they are empowered

to act independently

and they can trust that it's gonna work out

cause they know what's expected of them.

When they know what to expect

they come to trust the world as a safe and reliable place

that they can walk around

and then it's gonna be okay in general.

So having that clarity of a list

of this is what's gonna happen throughout the day

and we're gonna stick to this

and if it changes I'm gonna talk with you about that

and partner with you about that.

So that the kiddo is just aware of what's going on for them.

That really helps them to feel secure.

Connection is also really important.

Connection with any trusted adult

is an important part of security for kids.

They constantly need that connection cup refilled.

This is when you start to see attention seeking behaviors

and it can be really helpful

to reframe them as connection seeking behaviors.