So, as some of you know, I am a huge fan of Khan Academy. It's what led me to set foot in Portland for the first time 3 or 4 years ago for a PD Day, and I've used it in many ways in my classroom from supporting struggling students all the way up to replacing all homework assignments with practice sets on Khan Academy's Math Section. Over the last twelve years the organization has built up loads of content and practice capabilities from Math to Art History to Music to Computer Science to Science to SAT and on and on. While it can't replace the education we provide, it can serve to keep skills sharp, remediate, provide a spark, and/or help our parents with where to start.
Up until now, I've been hesitant to share out just a list of resources and tools that we could send to supplement our students' learning from afar. I have a number of reasons for hesitating on sending stuff to do. First, we need to not overwhelm our students and parents. We also need to not send them 100 different places to go with 100 different usernames and passwords; it needs to be simple. But then I saw this in my email inbox.
This one resource checks a lot of my boxes, so I wanted to share it with you in hopes that it might help some of our families by providing a quality, simple starting point for their crazy lives at home.
If you think it might be helpful, share it along. Just remind students (and/or parents) that they don't have to create an account. Simply sign in with their Google Account they use for school and proceed from there.
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