Khan Academy Tools for Summer Learning: Math and Writing Support

Addressing Summer Learning Loss

• 📉 The summer slide is a significant challenge, causing students to lose up to a month of learning, with low-income students potentially losing up to two months of reading skills.
• 📚 Concerns include students' access to quality educational materials and the social-emotional impact of learning loss over the summer break.

Khan Academy's Summer Learning Guide

• 📖 The Summer Streaks Success Guide offers resources for teachers, students, and parents to combat summer learning loss.
• 🎯 Key components highlighted include "Get a Jump on Math" (Get Ready courses), maintaining skills, and addressing unfinished learning.
• ✍️ Guidance for a writing workshop component is also available within the guide.

"Get Ready for Math" Courses

• 🚀 These courses provide a head start on the next school year's math content, focusing on essential skills and being about one-third the size of regular courses.
• 💡 Students are encouraged to work 30-60 minutes per week to level up skills, with support from Khanmigo (KIGO) for partnered districts.
• 🛠️ Additional supports include closed captioning, immediate feedback, a scratch paper function, tutorial videos, and articles.

Khanmigo and Writing Coach

• 🤖 Khanmigo (KIGO) is an AI tutor available to support students within Khan Academy content, offering scaffolded help and answering questions.
• ✍️ The Writing Coach tool guides students through the entire writing process, from prompt analysis and outlining to drafting and revising, with feedback from Khanmigo.
• ✨ A new feature allows students to receive essay feedback on pre-written drafts, supporting revision and improvement.
• 📊 Teachers can create assignments, and Khanmigo provides feedback, with teachers receiving reports on student progress and potential originality flags.

Teacher Tools and Summer Strategies

• 🧑‍🏫 Teachers can leverage Khan Academy teacher tools, including a ChatGPT-like assistant, to create prompts, assignments, and rubrics for summer learning modules.
• 💡 The Summer Streaks Guide provides specific suggestions for using Writing Coach and other tools for summer learning initiatives.