Unfortunately after about a month and a half,

Sal's unable to join us today,

but you do have myself

and another Khan Academy team member, Meaghan Pattani,

who's here to kinda hold down the fort while Sal's away

and he'll be joining us tomorrow, so don't worry about that.

Before we get started if you have any questions,

please start putting them into the comment box

and the team will surface the questions for us to answer

and we'll do our best to do our Sal impersonations.

(laughs)

So, for those of you who are joining us for the first time,

this is just a way for us to stay connected,

especially at a time of social distancing

and school closers.

Khan Academy's a non-profit,

with a mission to provide everyone a free,

world class education to anyone, anywhere.

And the way we've been doing that for the last 10 plus years

is really by creating resources from Pre-K,

with Khan Academy Kids,

through Elementary school, Middle school and High school.

Covering courses in Math, ELA, Humanities, Sciences and more

and when this crisis hit we recognized

that it was our duty to do even more.

We've created daily schedules and learning plans

to help provide structures for remote learning.

We've recorded parent and teacher webinars in mass,

to provide guidance and answer pressing questions

and we've even launched Khan Academy Kids YouTube channel

with daily circle time, and all of this in an effort

to keep everyone learning through school closers.

I wanna remind everyone that we are non-profit,

we're funded by Philanthropic donations

by folks like yourself, and we were running at a deficit

before the crisis and we've seen our surfer usages increase

two to three times what we normally incur

and what that means is we also have increased costs.

And I wanna send a special shout-out

to several organizations who were the some of the first

to step up and help us during this crisis.

So Bank of America, Google.org,

AT&T, NOVARTIS and Fastly,

have all really stepped in to help

us close some of that gap,

but we need more so, if you find yourself

in a position to do so, please think about supporting us

and if you have any questions,

you can start adding them to the message boards

and we'll try to get trough as many as we can.

So, Meaghan we have a really great question from YouTube

from Gamermash, I'm going through high school next year,

I'm already worrying about working too much,

how can I keep up so I'm ready for high school?

- That's a great question and first things first,

take a deep breath.

I'm certain that you have a great support system around you

and remember that you're not in it alone

a lot of students are asking themselves

that question right now, right?

You've had a huge disruption to the end

of your Middle school experience

and taking on high school

is such a huge challenge in and of itself.

I was a high school teacher for nine years

and I always loved that fresh look of new students

and how they are eager to learn

and still trying to adapt

and find who they are as they change.

Well we've got some great resources

to help you on the academic side of that, for sure.

We have a learning plans for Math

that we have things to help you with the content

you're looking at right now, in terms of daily schedules,

to help you stay on track

with what you're trying to finish right now

and then there's learning plans for over the summer,

to either look more at what you might be learning

to finish eighth grade or maybe to get you a step ahead,

so maybe that content doesn't feel as intimidating

as you step trough that first door.

The other thing we might be able to support you,

is we have some great grove mindset content.

And that might be able to help

you frame what you're learning,

and that experience, and how you can prepare yourself

for learning across subjects and even beyond the academic.

And so I would really take a look

at both our daily schedules,

and our weekly learning plans

that you can see on the screen right now,

to get ahead in what you might be learning

in Math, come the fall.

- Yeah, I would just plug the learning plans,

we just hosted a Parent webinar last week

on how to best utilize it, it was really for parents

but it's also, as a student, you can use that as well.

It's really just a way to add a lot of structure

and to make sure that, you know the summer slide

really doesn't get amplified,

especially in a time of shool closers.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- We have a question on YouTube from Jrfoster,

what are some of your recommended books for teenagers

to read during this quarantine?

I can pitch something, so right now I've been reading,

Percy Jackson and The Olympians,

with my nice and nephews,

we're on book two, Sea of Monsters.

It's way better than the movies were,

I find it's really action packed

and we also have a recommended reading list

from our Khan Academy Staff.

Meaghan do you have a recommendation?

- First of all, I absolutely love those books,

I read them a few years ago

and I'm with you Dan, I say the books

are significantly better than the movie.

Some books for high school students well that's,

I mean there's plenty of things out there.

I'm a Harry Potter fan myself

and I think that you know,

that's always a great thing to look into.

The other thing is,

I know there's some suggestive reading list out there,

I mean some of our staff has provided

some suggested reading lists

on that same, keep learning, micro site

that we shared on the screen a moment ago.

And so I would definitely take a look,

at some of their suggestions

because we've some really wonderful people

on staff who have put some deep thought

into what they might suggest.

The other thing I would say is that

the important thing is that you're reading.

And so, I think it's often underestimated that while

it's great that you know, maybe you're looking

for some recommended books from your teachers

or from you know maybe our staff

but the important thing is that you're reading.

So, if there's something that interest you

and is really engaging you,

whether that be, you know a blog or a book

or you know maybe it's something else

I can't even think of right now,

but as long as you're reading,

what's really important is that you're engaging yourself

and more than specifically any individual book.

- Meaghan, we have a question on YouTube from Eliot H,

it's actually for both of us.

What are our roles at Khan Academy?

How long have we been here?

And how has Khan Academy changed during your Tenure?

So, I'm on the marketing team, I lead the channel marketers

and our product marketing folks here,

and I've been at Khan Academy for, coming up on two years.

I don't know if it's changed that much,

I just feel like it's a team of extremely passionate people,

everyone's super motivated

to provide that free, world class education

to anyone anywhere and so I think for me,

it's just been a pleasure coming to work

every single day with a team

that's just an incredible team.

- That's beautiful Dan, we like working with you too.

(laughs)

- And for those who don't know,

Meaghan is actually my desk partner

so I sit right next to Meaghan.

and Meaghan do you wanna kind of do

a brief overview of what you do?

- Sure, I would love to.

As Dan mentioned his on the marketing team,

so am I, work on our US district partnership team

and I lead our US Professional Learning Aparat,

so what that means is, I work with teachers

and school districts all over the US

and I design the teacher facing resources on our site,

to better support teachers as they use Khan Academy

with students and so, like I mentioned,

I was an educator for nine years

and now I get to work with educators all over the US

and that's super exciting,

and I know part of the question has been how long

have I been at Khan Academy,

I've been here a little over two years.

and one thing I've seen evolve,

is that Khan Academy always cared deeply about teachers

and students and I think we've even tried

to improve that connection with teachers and students

and district administrators even more so,

and we spend more time connecting with them

face to face, now, than we did even before.

- Meaghan, we have a really good question,

I think this is really important for us to surface,

so on YouTube Daniel Yang asked, would you make videos

in different languages?

Daniel lives in a non English speaking country

and I always recommend Khan Academy to my friends.

So, in short, yes, Meaghan do you wanna provide

a little bit more info?

- Yeah, I would love to.

So Khan Academy is available in 50 plus languages

and we have an amazing team

of both employees and volunteers, called advocates,

who not just translate the videos,

but the localize them.

We have experts who are creating similar videos

on the same content,

but that have real, local, meaningful, cultural examples,

so it doesn't just feel

like we're voicing over Sal's original videos

but we're making content

that is important and connects to the students

and teachers and leaders, in those particular countries.

The other piece I would really highlight here,

is that even within the US, we find that schools

really love having their parents

and their community involved in their students learning.

And so if you have a student who's learning on Khan Academy,

they can change their language

from in school and out of school,

so that parents and families and communities

can support their learners

in the language they're most comfortable.

So, maybe as a parent, you didn't grow up in the US system

but you really wanna support your child learning

but you're most comfortable in your own language,

you can adjust that at home, in your settings feature,

and so your child can learn with you at home

in the language you are most comfortable,

and then they can switch that content back

to English or whatever their primary language

they're learning in at school.

And again, we have 50 plus languages on our website

and most of the languages are available

on our app as well,

and so you're seeing a few of those go past right now.

And I can't stress enough,

how grateful we are for our international teams

and for our volunteers, who are really the ones

that make a lot of this work happen.

- Yeah I wanna double down

and just give a shout-out to those advocates,