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Lesson 3: Connecting what we're doing today to the vision- How does the thing I'm working on now tie into this broader vision?
- What role do adoption programs like LearnStorm play in helping us achieve this goal?
- What types of partnerships do we need to establish?
- What should I do differently on a daily basis because of this mission?
- How does a small team tackle this big vision?
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What role do adoption programs like LearnStorm play in helping us achieve this goal?
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- So Khan Academy has been
successful creating content, and creating product around
that content for awhile now. In fact, that's where a
lot of our reach and usage has come from, but we've
recognized if we really want to reach as many students as possible, if we really want to reach as many teachers as possible,
we have to do outreach. We have to have programs that
really empower the community, and the best example
of that is LearnStorm. LearnStorm is, we've had
personalized learning on Khan Academy for some time now, and in our admissions,
but by doing LearnStorm, we're able to really
engage with the community. We built out this ambassador
program where these incredible teachers who
are taking our mission, and taking it into their communities. We've been able to work with
far more schools and districts in a formal way than
we've ever have before, and in a lot of ways we've
been able to get deeper personalized learning in more classrooms than we ever had before
because it's happening as part of a challenge, or a celebration, and it's been neat because
not only has it been about personalized learning and math, but it's been about mindset,
you can learn anything. It's about growth mindset,
grit, resilience, hustle, and as we develop LearnStorm,
and it goes into more regions, and it goes nationally, and
eventually internationally, it's the Khan Academy
equivelent of marketing. You can have marketing where you put ads, or billboards, and all of
that, and that's all fine, but the most powerful
type of marketing is when the marketing itself has positive
impact, when the marketing itself drives user engagement,
and drives ownership. A lot of what I talked about in terms of the educator channel, and
it being key that educators see that we are aligned with them, and that we are out there to help them, LearnStorm is kind of
the vanguard of that. LearnStorm is how we show
how Khan Academy can be used, how we integrate with the
system, and classrooms, and empower teachers, and it isn't just a one way flow of information. I think all of us here through LearnStorm have learned a ton about
how we can get better about serving the needs of teachers.