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Khan World School Info Session
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Lisa Molloy
00:02
Again. Thanks for joining us this evening for our Con World School info session. Tonight we'll be telling you a bit more about Con World School, as it expands to grades 6 through 12, and we identify Con World School as a school for the curious, the passionate.
the intentional. and the willing.
I'm Lisa Malloy I'm. Our project manager for strategic initiatives. I've been working with the Con World School creation for this past year this current year of cohort of ninth grade, and then, as we design and expand, to grade 6 through 12 for our school year, coming up 2324.
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Amy Johnson
00:42
My name is Amy Johnson. I'm a Con World School Guide, and I oversee the mathematics.
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Jessica Jaeger
00:51
Hello, everyone. My name is Jessie Eager, and I am the Con Roll School guide over history currently.
and i'm gonna kick us off with just giving you a little bit of background about the idea for a time World School, and where that came from. So, as you may be familiar with Sal Khan, who kind of
launched his own space on Youtube a few Gosh!
20 years ago. Most. Could it be? No, not quite that 1 15 years ago or so, and he is kind of known for starting that work in the realm of mathematics, and Khan Academy has now grown into all subject areas, and in 2,012 he wrote a book called the One World Schoolhouse. So our school. Design and vision is kind of based off of some of the major tenants in that book, like mastery, learning and disrupting old systems, and
not
having things like seat time attached to learning. If a student can progress forward and learn at a faster pace and show mastery, then they should be able to do that, and the next gentleman there in the red tie is Michael Crowe, who is the president of Arizona State University, and one of the major
goals of the mission statement of Asu is that idea of disruption, innovation, and really pushing things forward to see who we can include as as opposed to exclude in an educational space.
and then add to that the strong foundation of as you prep digital our Co. In my graph, found herself in a lot of the same spaces, a cell con, and they kind of
share the same vision for what online and digital learning could be. And with that came come World school at Asu Prep Academy.
So tonight we're gonna take you through the 3 main goals of common real school, which are mastery communication and community. We'll also look at the program pillars for both middle grades and high school for 2,
2023, 2024 school year. And then, of course, we'll deal with some logistics, and we'll have time for a question and answer. We will have someone manning the chat the entire time. So if you have a question as a slide is being presented. Please know that one of us here will be able to hopefully answer that for you
right away in the chat, and we may even answer it again. Live later. I know, depending on what device you're tuning in from. You may not be able to see the chat at all times, so please feel free to use it if you would like. And with that we this is going to kick us off with our first school for Conro school
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Lisa Molloy
03:19
last year, when we were the designing the school and thinking about our inaugural course, our new in our World group. We had about 3 main goals, and as we've been through the school year so far, and evolved thinking about expanding to more grades, we've refined those, and taking what we've learned to the next level.
Our first goal is what if your student mastered not just information, but also themselves. A unique feature about Con World School is that we are leveraging mastery for standards for our students in their courses.
The tree of Mastery is a great analogy for this.
We start with the roots of the tree where we're thinking about how mastering the core subjects is foundational to students learning. And as students work through those core subjects.
they're leveraging Khan Academy supplemental instruction and other things that will help them truly, grasp the concepts and understand them rather than just memorize and pass a test and move on. So we're hopeful that through guided feedback and support from guides, from peers, from some of these programs that we leverage
that they will be able to walk that path of mastery, different paces, maybe, for each student and for each subject, but set that strong foundation for their growth. In main the main subject areas
building on that tree to the trunk is the opportunity of demonstrated learning and giving students opportunity to put their learning into action, practice it in different ways by demonstrating it.
Some of these things might include practice in our small group tutorials. That's a synchronous component where people join a call together and might go in depth in a specific subject on a rather weekly basis.
It might look like working with a guide, one on one.
They might involve using schoolhouse, dot world and becoming a a master or a tutor in some subjects
Whatever this looks like and will be, it experiences across all the grades. We continue to put this mastery into practice by action. So the the foundation is built upon, and further.
and thinking about how that then turns into the exposure to the future. The foliage that adds to the tree
and thinking about the future in different ways for commonwealth school students than maybe a traditional school experience. We think about how students have access to university courses through our connection to Arizona State University.
and we encourage that connection to higher level courses in high school very early, or whenever a student is ready, especially depending on whatever subject or interests they have.
and thinking about also some of the topics and ideas they're exploring across their education. We have this seminar Socratic seminar which covers many topics, real world issues, certain things. Students might not be learning in the classroom. They might see out there in the world, or hear about from their families.
But this is an opportunity for them to have that critical thinking and that cross discipline learning so that they're able to see fruits of their labor through their skills, and bringing that to things outside of their classroom and into other aspects of their lives, Conversations with their families, with their peers, consuming materials in the world, adding discourse whatever they're involved in. We have students across many of activities and interests.
and the way that they can bring those things in the mastery and take them to other areas of their lives
is very fruitful and rewarding, and we find that that's something that Con World school students are able to do after even just 6 months with this first cohort. The improvement and the growth in the area of mastery has led to a lot of different outcomes that we couldn't expect and sort of relate to this tree as an analogy.
Here's a quote from a current con roll School student. I love the self based curriculum, because that is something we don't see. It has helped me a lot in planning my day and doing what I love, and also focusing on my weak subjects for a longer time.
The self schedule part, according to my parents, has made me more aware about time management, and better at planning. It helps me a lot since I get to plan my day and decide how I spend it.
So Zombie is one of our ninth graders currently, and points out some interesting things about the Con Roll School model. Students are able to spend time on subjects at their own pace.
and sometimes it's more important to spend time and subjects that you may not feel strong in, and so working towards, mastery, looks different in different subjects, as well as different for students in their own context.
time, management, and scheduling, it becomes something that students must be very confident in, and there's scaffolding and structure from the guides and other peers to help them become competent at that. But that's something that is not necessarily integrated in a normal school setting and reefs a lot of benefits outside of just the direct academic complex.
In thinking about your students application for Con roll school, we would like to see some mastery through a demonstration on a standardized test of sorts, especially relating to English and math scores.
Listen to a couple of examples for that.
We want to see that demonstration of learning ability in that standardized form, because grading standards can be different across schools, countries, States great inflation is real. So we're finding that some of these more standardized options will help us get a better understanding of the students aptitude, and how they would fit within the common World School curriculum.
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Amy Johnson
08:55
all right, looking at Goal number 2.
What if dinner went from silent teenager to excited conversationalist?
There's a couple of different ways in which we foster this particular goal at Cob World School, and the first one is through our seminar. So this is something that all the students that the major pillar of Con World School, and something that all the students will participate in. And in seminar they get a chance to really dive deep into a current topic, real world.
something very current. We'll give them information to look at, and they'll be able to explore information on their own as well, and then they come back together to
we. We talk, you know, with them. How do we look through this information? How do we assess? If this is a good source or not. How do we read this graph and learn what we need to learn from the information that's out there? And then they get a chance to discuss with their classmates
really debate back and forth. Oftentimes the topics are posed in sort of a question format.
There's
multiple sides, sometimes just 2, sometimes many more, but they really get to debate. Dive deep into Who? I think this? Well, what does that mean? If I think this, what would happen if we did this, and it's really kind of a
really interesting format for students to take on real world right now, hot topics, and that's the aspect that will bring those hopefully to you into that excited conversation list. They'll be more excited to tell you about what they're learning on a day to day basis.
Another way in which we'd like to foster that ability for them to be excited. Conversation is in their reading and writing
in world language curriculum in particular, with the reading and writing, we we absolutely aspire for them to be
well read, reading up to 12 books per year in their English language arts, class. But what's really kind of exciting for them is. While there are some genres we want to make sure that they expose themselves to. They have a lot of freedom of choice within there, so they get to read what excites them. We want them to read the books. We want them to be excited by the stories excited by the text, and then we want them to report back to us.
using what are called recorded book talks, and tell us all about what they learned from that book. They can. Also. They're also going to learn many different
genres of writing. So we'll we'll teach them different styles and formats and types of writing but in that, since they have a lot of option. As Well, right what? You're interested in writing about there's a lot of writing that's cross-curricular as well, so writing that they can use and more than one class that they can hone to different skills.
and so on. We also have self-paced world language courses. and
in our self-case, World language course, there is time and tutorial to learn to speak the language as well. So they will meet with other students who are learning the same language, and have the opportunity to practice and speak in that language as well.
This is a quote from one of our students. That's currently at calm World school. Right now. The ability to choose your own books and what to write about is empowering as a student, since it's not usually an option.
It fosters the ability to choose literature that forces you to think critically while staying engaged and excited with the material, since it pertains to you as an individual
in your application, you'll have the opportunity to sort of express yourself and show us in a couple of different ways. The first one is a writing sample where you're going to describe a time in which you struggle to reach a goal and we're ultimately successful.
Additionally, we're gonna ask you to create a video where you're going to show us your dreams and passions. They're scrolling around you, and why you think Kws, you should be a part of K. To us, and how you think Kws will be a part of helping you achieve those streams.
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Jessica Jaeger
13:00
Thanks, Amy. We're going to move on to goal 3
and goal 3, I mean. You'll notice, too, that these goals are not isolated. They all link together right, you know that's intentional. So think more like concentric circles. What if your student was a part of a community of learners exploring deeper and pushing further to establish their place in the universe?
And any spoke about this. But Seminar is intentionally designed to do just that. We want our students to explore ambitiously, challenge respectfully and build mental models around real current
topics of the day. She alluded to this a little bit, but we've discussed everything from
politics, government, homelessness. nuclear power, renewable energy, space chat gpt, you know new things that students are hearing about just education in general great inflation, As Lisa mentioned earlier, we just did that topic with our students. And so
it's really great to have them this for me, the thing that stood out. They're all exploring ambitiously, even on topics they may have never heard of before they really appreciate like.
Gosh! I didn't even consider that, you know just the new awakening. But that challenging respectfully is something I've really been impressed with with our students having been
an educator for 20 years. That can be a very delicate balance. There's a difference between a conversation or versus an argument right or versus a debate, and we are very lucky that these structures have really helped Students
challenge each other's, thinking, even if it if it's a belief, they Don't personally hold. They have challenged their own thinking just by considering all perspectives, all stakeholders who might see this differently than you those kinds of questions. And so we've really seen our students
take that approach and heard from our families as well that those conversations really are making it into the household, not just in seminar. So some of our groups
we'll meet next year in at at different levels in time. So middle grades in high school this looks a little bit different. But if you are entering at the high school grades, this would be 3 days a week. You would be meeting in Seminar synchronously and discussing these topics.
We also have a variety of small group options. So seminar is a group. probably anywhere from 15 to 20 students. So by small group we mean less than 10.
It could be as few as 2 or 3. It could be as many as 6 or 7, but it's a handful of students with a subject area guide currently for the middle grades. Every subject would have this small group time for high school. It's currently set up that our small group. Tutorials are in mathematics
algebra, one that would include algebra, one geometry and algebra, 2
science lab sciences that would include bio honors biology, honors chemistry, and honors, physics, and then our current world language offering is Spanish, so that would be Spanish, one Spanish, 2, and Spanish 3, if you choose to
take that third year Spanish. So the idea of those small groups is for students to explore and extend the learning in the course. So these are not necessarily like live lessons.
These are applied practice sessions. So you might be talking about the Science lab that you're designing and creating, and maybe problem solving with your small group of Gosh, i'm not getting the results I expected, or maybe i'm going to talk for you, even though you could probably tell about math. You know a big part of algebra is linear equations and linear functions. And so let's collect, find some real data plot that data. What is it telling us? What
What is this linear equation? Help us to predict what might happen next from a data set and in world language. As Amy said earlier.
it's really a chance to practice speaking that language, live with peers that are at the same level as you with a guide who is a master in Spanish education that can help guide you, correct you that real time, live feedback, and practice in all of those subjects has been a really valuable part of what we do. So tutorial time is not
recorded. Live lesson the students sit.
The teacher teaches. In fact, it's the reverse. I would argue that our students are probably doing a majority of the talking, and the guide is truly there to help facilitate the learning.
So here's a quote from Ben, one of our current common old school students. And this is about seminar, he said. I learn what my I learned, what my beliefs are. What do I think? What are my opinions on complex topics. It's really
been wonderful to just see the evolution in the students and the depth of their thought, the complexity of their thought and their ability to back up what they're thinking with evidence which is also really important to know why they think what they think.
So this relates to your application in the sense that we would like you to join a seminar session with other applicants, just for a very informal yet somewhat formal right, just a very open-ended discussion to give you a feel for the level of engagement that's expected at Con World School.
We are all crew. There are no passengers right. Everyone is contributing to the work. There's no one sitting back and
kind of along for the right. There's constructive listening. You might not be speaking. But are you? Are you listening carefully, you know. Are you reflecting on the conversation, and what's happening? And as soon as you're ready to contribute, someone is always there to listen. We all have valuable ideas that are worth sharing. And so that's one of our main
goals here at Commonwealth School, within the subject areas and in Seminar
and Amy. I'm going to hand it back to you for this.
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Amy Johnson
19:07
Yeah. So we have. We are broken into a high school level and a middle middle grades level, and we're going to speak kind of to each of those and what our
it's sort of the main pillars for each of those in the curriculum.
So for all grades, we employ a mastery, base learning system which allows students to move at their own pace and really not move on through the material and on to the next.
of course, until they've shown mastery in the previous course, students will
earn grades, either a B or in progress for all of their courses as well as individual assignments. So if a student is below 80, they haven't shown mastery, and they'll just keep working until they do so. As a final grade as well. Students will earn an a or a B,
or be in progress, and still able to keep working on the course until they reach that level
the the learning is guided. The as Jesse had mentioned previously, tutorial sessions, and even seminars are hosted by masters guides at the school, and masters in the subjects
in the subject matter itself. Tutorials, in particular, are hosted by masters in that subject. So a math teacher is going to be run by a math person, and they're there to really challenge students to show that mastery that they've learned by being able to take that curriculum and to apply it.
Another major pillar here is that we do this together. And so I think you can see how these 3 things kind of lead back to those the
3 main goals that we have here. But we do this together. So our students. This is very different from a typical online model. Our students really do get to know each other. They form their own small group sometimes for learning. They're working together in tutorials, and they're working together in seminar to really learn these skills.
you should. I'm sorry about that. I missed that. Their plan at all levels to be in synchronous. So online, synchronous learning one to 2 h per day.
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Jessica Jaeger
21:24
and and just to note there, too. I mean, we say this at the end, but those one to 2 h are planned around time zones of our students. We currently have students on 5 continents in multiple countries, and so we do offer those synchronous times
at times that are are good for international students as well as our Arizona based students, Our Us. Based students. Gosh, Amy, how many times do we have
10 China, India a lot, so we say synchronous time. Students do get to decide like. For example, biology
is offered at 10 different 1 h sessions throughout the week, so the student looks at their schedule and says.
You know I need to attend in the morning where I am. So then we make sure that they get scheduled into a tutorial. Let's see them just to kind of give you an idea of what that schedule might look like. All the rest of the curriculum, though, is asynchronous. So.
Amy, did you want me to do?
What does she take? Middle grades? Okay. So middle grades
our roll up for next year? Is not age based. So while I notice some of you in the chat, put sixth grade fifth grade, you know seventh grade.
Well, that is chronologically the grade that you should be in. We are not going to limit you only to courses at that grade level. So our grades are going to be. Our Our middle grades is going to be level by learning level. Not necessarily age your grade. So
English language, arts, or humanities, we're combining it with social studies actually will be level. 1, 2, or 3, and we'll do have a graphic. That kind of goes over that. But you will enter at the level
where you fit best. Okay, so it's. It's not necessarily
connected to your chronological age. It could be, but it doesn't have to be. Also those 3 learning levels are can have condensed 6 through eighth grade into 2 levels. So it is an accelerated model in the sense that you would
be mastering all the standards for 6, seventh and eighth grade in 2 years. So it is an accelerated pace Level 3 would mean that you are taking high school courses.
even though you may be a traditional middle school age. Okay, so we will. If you're ready for algebra one and you're technically a seventh grader. We're gonna let you enroll in algebra. One you can enroll in that high school level course as soon as you are ready.
and Middle School school will be unique, and that we're going to offer instead of electives. You might have heard them call electives or exploratory classes. We are going to offer exploratory badges, which is a unique experience to the middle grades. Only once you get to high school it's more credit bearing classes. But this is just a chance for our students to try on some different.
some different scopes of work like coding government and civics, economics, the arts and music, physical education that i'm Reading from the Yellow Box on the right here, college and career, exploration, physical education, study skills, digital citizenship, just kind of trying on those things, those courses.
what are all asynchronous? They can be taken in any order. So if you, if your student has already taken physical education, we can check that off when you enter here. But if your student has never taken coding, and they want to. They can start with coding. Or perhaps you want to start thinking about those college and careers. So when you get into high school. You can be thinking about those classes. Maybe you want to start there. So it's really
the students choice, and very differentiated for what you need. The only one that we kind of wait until you're at Level 3 is our Socratic seminar piece. So as we are talking about seminar, that class actually goes with our English 9 class, so
elements of seminar will be embedded into the humanities course at levels one and 2, but it won't. Be a specific standalone
experience until you get to that level. 3 because part of our English 9 honors class for speaking and listening grade does come from those seminar discussions. So your grade is actually tied right with seminar, your mastery of that.
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25:44
So you can see in the chart
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Jessica Jaeger
25:47
level one math will be the equivalent of 6 and seventh grade, or at a higher placement. If your student has shown a transcript, or we, you know a placement test that we've already seen that you've mastered those standards, you can move right into pre algebra, and if your student has already mastered those skills that they would enroll right in algebra, one so it's completely possible
that a student could be in level. One humanities level 2 science
and level 3 math. I mean it's definitely. You do not have to stay within those levels, and as soon as the student finishes a level or a course, they can move right on to the next course in the progression. They do not have to wait till the end of a semester or the end of a term. If they finish in November
and December first or the next day we can get them going right away in their next course, if that's what they're ready for. You will notice that Level 3 is mostly high school level courses, and that's intentional. We want to set your student up for success in high school by having them enter high school with some credits already under their belt, and what that will free them up to do in high school. I'll let Amy tell you about in the high School model that's coming up
next.
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Amy Johnson
26:59
And what Jesse's mentioned here is is a lot of flexibility. So your your student is
in middle school, but already starting their high school courses, and they'll be in that middle grades here. They'll have. They'll be able to continue to have the support that they have in those middle grades level, so they'll be able to have their learning labs and other stuff that they do at the middle grade level, and once they're completely done with level one and level 2 and fully on to level 3 and ready. Then the next fall they would probably start with their high school
fully, and when they get to high school things do change a little bit, because high school is credit aligned. So the courses are aligned so that students can earn the credits that are necessary in order to earn a high school diploma.
We are fully accredited high school, so they will earn a high school diploma that they can take to any college or university. So the courses are organized by those credits. They're aligned to the typical
preparatory
for preparation for college experience. We do offer advanced math credits they'll be taking. Our goal is for students to complete
algebra 2 by the end of their second year of high school, and after that the courses that they take will somewhat vary a little bit, and depend upon their interests beyond high school. But we're looking at pre calculus, statistics, and calculus, and even beyond that, if they'd like.
We put it all together. The house guides use. They support them. We have a college and career going, counselor that will help support them as well in choosing and taking college level courses. They attend seminars and tutorials, which is the one to 2 h of week that they spend on line in high school, and, like I'd already mentioned several times, they'll have a lot of availability for university courses, which are college and career counselor as well as their guides, will be able to help talk them, talk to them about, and decide if in which courses are best suited for
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28:55
for them.
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Amy Johnson
28:57
Most of their time in eleventh and twelfth grade. You'll see. Go ahead and go for, and Jesse will be spent kind of depending on how much they've accelerated there. When I say there's a lot of flexibility. There's flexibility, if necessary, to you know. Slow down one of the topics as well, like Jesse had mentioned. You might be moving head in mouth, but she might be a little behind in one of the other classes.
When you do make that lead to high school from the middle years. Hopefully you'll be coming in with at least a few, if not many, of your high school credits already done. But even if you aren't, this is be a typical curriculum. If you weren't again.
acceleration is an option, so it doesn't. Take every student a full 4 years to get through. But if you were coming in pretty blank slate, this would be kind of how it'd be laid out across the 4 year curriculum, so you can see in the first year since we'll take English World history, math
biology, world language, and as well as seminar. If they wanted to, they could add an elective from Arizona State University.
your 2 really similar schedule year 3. It starts to change a little bit, because seminar takes on a little bit different experience with those upper grades, you'll have a chance to
incorporate some tutoring internship or a work study in there as well. More of your classes will start to move to the University experience upper levels of English beyond the first 2 levels of English that we teach here will probably be taken with the University
as well as any math that is a pre calculus or above in science. We'll do honors, biology, honors, chemistry, and honors physics with us here at Conrold school. But then any elective credits. After that you can take through Arizona State University.
We are also just wanted to mention here, because I don't have it in there, linked with as you prep digital, we are part of as you prep digital. And so the entire curriculum of a/C Prep. Digital as far as
a student. Maybe Isn't taking our world language was just Spanish. Maybe they're already a couple of years in of taking German and wanted to add to that we could do that through Arizona State University, or through as you prep digital. So there's a lot of flexibility in. This is a kind of a general plan, but the plan would be, of course, tailored to your students, needs your students, current placement and everything.
and you know their goals.
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Jessica Jaeger
31:34
So who's come? Old school design, for I know that's a lot of information and questions. We we we plenty of time for questions at the end, so please keep them coming in the chat. Just what I want to kind of address right away your House guide. So
it's. It's kind of like an advisor
mixed with a counselor at a typical high school or middle school, or if you're coming from Prep. Digital and Lsc. A learning success coach, we guides serve all of those functions at once. So your house guide.
like I have 10 families in my house this year, so i'm in constant communication with them, their student
on course progress. We're keeping an eye on. Are they moving forward in course work things like that? We also assist families with scheduling like W. What should my student take? You know what's their 4 year graduation plan? Those things like that. All that advising and advisement role is your house guide. So Amy has a house. I have a house. All of the guides in our team. Each have our families that we work directly with
to schedule their students and keep track of progress and all kinds of things. So we are a direct contact. Of course you can reach out to a subject specific guide. I know my students go to Amy without me. I don't need to be in every conversation, but when they, when they need something and have a math question, I refer them to the expert. Who is Ms. Johnson. I know the basics, but she knows the best. So
we work really closely as a team as well to do that. So just wanted to say that, and then our college and career counselor next year will handle all those enrollments you are enrolling as an Asu student. As soon as you take an Asu course, and that just
adds another level of complexity, and I will say a question that we get a lot.
There are, an you can take 6 credits, a semester included with your tuition. If you are a tuition paying student here at Conroy School, or if you are an Arizona state resident.
There are college courses included in your enrollment. So we get that question a lot. Are there hidden fees and things like that, and if you have specific questions, we'd be happy to answer. Those.
So who is K. Of us designed for our students are, I would say, that you know we have a couple of slides here, but I would say our we have students that fit pieces of these. All of these these are not actual profiles, but
our students can be precocious. They can love math, but never admit it. They can hate writing, but be really good at it. I have a student in my house. That's exactly like that.
They are confident they're outgoing. A lot of our students have passions outside of school, and we work really hard to include those passions in their coursework. Some are smart and efficient learners.
some are so efficient they rush to get things done, but our mastery process does sometimes slow them down. You know they have to submit their writing for multiple feedback sessions and things like that, and so
their camera off. Maybe don't speak much kind of kids. but we really try to draw them out of their shells, and
we want their voices heard and valued. So when they do speak, people listen. Our students are very good at listening to each other, and it is a goal on an expectation that we hear from everybody in the room as much as possible. They're endlessly curious. They always try hard.
Some of them hate to fail. Some of them can lose track of time. That could be a good thing or not. I have. Students come sometimes come late to seminar. I'm sorry I was working on a math problem, and I didn't want to. I needed to finish it before I came in. You know they just get drawn into the things that they're really working hard at. So
those are just a few of the students that we currently have. So is Kws designed for you, Lisa. Do you mind taking that? And here.
with the details your person? Lisa, knows all the things. So we're gonna start with our new student orientation on July 30 first, and then academic instruction would start on August seventh.
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Lisa Molloy
35:51
These dates align with our As you prep digital start dates, we find benefits and advantages in that. For many reasons our tuition within Arizona students have this access to Con World school for free. You have your Us. And your international student rates below.
And the main requirements, just for all students are to have the necessary technology computer webcam high-speed Internet access
availability for seminars and other synchronous times within us Time zones as we mentioned, we span a lot of time zones, and so between that we find many offerings throughout the day to fit the schedules, so there will be a lot of consideration across
wherever students are located to make that work in the best way. and students should be entering grades 6 through 12.
A question we got was, if you were a a fifth grader student and or 10 years old or so. Could you apply
If you're interested, and you think some of the course work you've completed qualifies you for that middle grades level you're welcome to try to apply, and we'll consider your application individually. However, it's very possible we might need another year of progression in academics before we would consider you for those grades. So
part of that is to say, you can go to our website to enroll.
and if you have any questions or any specific situational circumstances. You would like to talk about. Our academic advisor is there to help? Our team will then also be contacted. If you have other questions that we can connect on, and we work with students and families very closely to ensure that we can make this experience fit their needs.
There are a lot of opportunities for customization and meeting people where their app. So please know that if there are some specific circumstances you'd like to discuss or have questions about. We're here to help support that. And with that being said, we've got the last 20 min to continue answering questions.
so please feel free to put those in our chat or the question and answer.
and we can at answer some of those live for you, maybe in greater depth than with just text response.
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Jessica Jaeger
37:58
Let's see, Jessie. Maybe you want to answer the question here that we get a couple one that was answered in Q. A. And i'm not sure if you all can see it was about extracurriculars.
We have a lot of virtual clubs because we are a virtual school. There are lots of opportunities for
a variety of kinds of virtual clubs. We have national honor, society, model UN, student, government, Chess Club drama. You know. We have our own Kws clubs. Amy facilitates the club, is it?
I always get it wrong? Future future health careers. We have book clubs. We have a variety of that as far as sports. If you are local to the Phoenix area. There are sports teams. I believe that digital students can join. If you're looking for that, we also, if You're a student. We have a lot of students now that take private lessons for violin, or they might, You know we have
competition level gymnast. You know we do offer independent study credits for things that I I have a student in my house that's very heavily involved in community theater, and so we do offer credit options for activities your student might be taking part in, you know, outside of school.
The other question we got was, how do you make up for lack of face to face time
for an online program. I will say Con World School probably has more synchronous time than I've seen in other models. We do encourage students to make connections, though, outside of lessons. So they have Google chat spaces where they set up their own homework clubs. You know they're checking in with each other to work on homework together outside of
guide directed times. So I
We just had our very first con roll school meet up in 10 P. We had students. A couple of students even come in from out of state to meet in person. But
we do like I, said Dave. I would say.
an hour a day, depending on how you set your schedule. They will be face to face with others. But I will say our students
this year have really taken it upon themselves to extend that into other spaces where they connect. Amy, do you have anything
to add to that? I mean it is less space to face time than a brick and mortar. Yes, you know we have not live 6 h a day. But I was just typing an answer to, but i'll answer it. Live here. What is the homework like, and what is the workload? I will say that
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Amy Johnson
40:28
that's really hard to quantify, because, of course, each student works through different things at different rates. I will. I will say that it's not any more than a typical face to face. And what's nice about it is because you're not on line with us all the time. You have flexibility in your schedule, and where you're going to, you know.
Sit down and put that in. So somebody who is a slow reader might take a little long to read their books, and someone who's a quick reader, but someone who's really slow at learning math might take a little longer to progress through their math curriculum, and somebody who's a little quicker at it.
and as far as homework. It's really more like day. One. You open up the class. It's on canvas, and you can see everything you have to do from day one till you finish the course, and so it's.
It's not homework versus classwork as much as it is Just here is all of the stuff laid out in front of you that you need to do, and you can work through that at your own pace.
so you'll know on day one exactly what needs to be completed because you can access everything in the course.
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Jessica Jaeger
41:30
Yeah, Just for example, in in math, like algebra, one just has more units than geometry it does. It will take longer, maybe, because there's more there. But if you're really good at algebra and geometry is a struggle that was me as a student.
you know. Length of time Isn't necessarily
linked to amount of work. Our recommendation just overall is an hour per class per day.
similar to a 6 h school day.
The difference is you are not tied to when those 6 h are right, you know. If your 6 h were best in the evening Great.
You could start your course work at 2. Pm. You know, and
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Amy Johnson
42:12
and if you start at that pace and realize you're moving very quickly, you have options. You could slow down and give yourself more free time. You could stay at that pace and get through your classes quicker it. There's a lot of flexibility in there.
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Jessica Jaeger
42:27
Am I right that we have a student that started their third math class this school year
for? Yes, we are. It's okay. She has She's finished algebra One, she finished. Geometry, and she's part way through algebra 2 at this point. So we're not going to fill you down necessarily. But if you need more time, I will also say you have it right. We have students tackling their coursework in in very different ways.
Some like to complete
3 courses at a time. Some who are taking a university course sometimes that's their first priority, and then they work on their other courses and smaller bits. So we do offer piecing suggestions. We do help, but there are not
firm due dates like this is
to Friday, you know, March seventeenth. We we don't
do that necessarily. Students have a year well, the school year to finish their course. and they can do that at the
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Amy Johnson
43:25
which honestly speaks back to that first goal that Lisa was going over. What if they were a master of Not only the subject, but of everything in their life? And this is something that our students are going to walk away with skills that
a traditional brick and mortar student may or may not have gotten, and it and I can see our kids this year
who who tripped up on this initially because it's hard for a ninth grader to just suddenly say, hey, you have to range your entire schedule to get everything done. But now they're coming around and saying, okay, I figured out how to fit this in. I figured how how to organize my life and my schedule at my homework, and and really get some stuff done.
So this is something that we know that they need a little bit of help in, but that we want them to figure out. We want them to learn to be in control of that, and to do a really good job, figuring out how to not only fit in everything they want to do, but everything they need to do.
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Jessica Jaeger
44:19
Oh, i'm just gonna answer a couple of questions based on the chat. So the first question, how many students do we expect to have our enrollment goal for middle grades is 150. Our enrollment goal for high school is 200.
We do not set goals by grade level again, because grade level doesn't necessarily determine the courses that you're taking. So those are enrollment goals. For this year. We do give a high school diploma, a a Arizona
from the State of Arizona. Students do earn a high school diploma, and
the question was about Grade Point. Does Kws give ABC. D. F. Grades? We do not give a, B. C. D. Upgrades the only grades you can earn here for course, credit are a B or in progress. So we have your student keep working
until they get to proficiency. Hence the mastery based.
Normally, we would say, you are proficient, or you are master, but we do understand that college applications and all of those things require a great point of the good news is.
every student will have a grade point of 3.0 or higher, because we will work with your student until they maintain proficiency, it could be higher. We do offer honors, level classes, so we do work on a weighted Gpa system.
If the course has honors, and right now. All of our courses at high school do, with the exception of Spanish Spanish, is a. Is a
typical high school course. Spanish 1 2 3. But that's on a 5 point scale. So your student will earn a weighted Gpa. And
cumulative standard. Gpa.
90%
or higher is an a or mastered. And again, what counts as mastered in each course is outlined in each course syllabus. So, for example, I know in biology, because it's a lab science.
You have to get a 90% or higher and complete all of your labs because we're we're earning lab science credit so. But we give, really, I believe, really timely and explicit feedback on how to get those projects.
those scores and those mastery tasks to mastery level, and and you can re take and revamp and redo. In fact, it's encouraged things as many times as needed to get up to mastery level. So there's no penalty for
having to provides it and submit again.
Hopefully. That answered that question. Was there anything else in the chat that we missed? I trying not to look left?
Not too much.
We're all cut up in the chat right now. Okay.
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Lisa Molloy
47:08
A lot of these questions are things that we Haven't necessarily encountered directly, yet being this is our inaugural year, and we just have the ninth grade cohort. We have plans and intentions for all these things, and there are certain situations that we would love to help support research. Specifically, I mentioned, maybe transfer of credit to different universities outside of the Us.
So if there's certain things that are sticking points for you, or questions that you have. We would love to discuss that further with you. Make sure that you feel confident in the answer that we can provide you, even if it's not something that has been done yet. Con World school. We are pioneering a lot here, and the people that have come along for the ride have been very satisfied so far.
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Jessica Jaeger
47:58
Yeah, I guess just to finish with that. You know our enrollment specialists is fantastic. So truly any questions that you have, or that you think of later, or
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48:08
that you might need. And we have other info sessions, too, if
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Jessica Jaeger
48:10
if you feel like someone else in your household or in your circle might want to hear about this. Please know that we're doing info sessions all through the coming months.
Yes. Do you know, Lisa, for that application question, it says once, yeah, I can. I can speak to that process a bit more clearly than I did in my text response.
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Lisa Molloy
48:35
You'll go to the enrollment website, and you will apply for as you prep digital, and then a drop down will come available that you'll specify for Con World school, and then you'll move forward with the rest of the standard application for prep digital
that indication of Con World School interest will flag it for our admissions team and our Con World School Admissions Advisor will reach out to you specifically with more information. They may need to know a few things before sending you the second step of the application or answer questions for you.
But the second sip of the application includes the test scores, the writing sample, a letter of recommendation, the video and the what else? What am I missing?
I think that was it.
And so, once those things are submitted, we'll assess everything and ensure that we feel confident with the fit for the student, and then we move to scheduling our mock seminar.
Those the first one is scheduled at the end of March, and we currently have monthly dates with that. So far, so once we have a group of students say we had 15 students in our mock seminar in
so or a march, and we had all grade levels that that won't be grade level dependent.
or how we facilitate it. It all happen at the same time
we will follow up and make decisions within a few days after most of those are scheduled Fridays, so it's likely you'll hear the following week, but based on that monthly cohort going through the mock seminar. We'll make decisions on those applications right after, and then we'll reassess. You know, new applicants in the next month, and so on.
If we see receive an inflow of applications, and we to schedule more of those mock seminars, we'll do that also. But currently we see a pace about about once a month.
and the recommendation letter is outlined in the application. We just ask for a recommendation from someone that's a non family member to speak to the child, whether that's someone like a forward teacher, someone that's involved with him and extracurriculars or the community. Whatever would work that will be outlined in detail for you.
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Jessica Jaeger
50:47
It sounds like more than it is. I know that's strange to say. But really the video is just like an intro like Here's me. Here's all about me, you know. I I
I've seen some of our new applicants come in again, and I remember watching the videos for this group, and i'm like, oh, look at them! And now I know them. You know it's just a really great
into who you are as a person. And another question we've got. We're not like scoring that on a rubric. We just really want an authentic
look at Who are you as a student. There is not a a threshold or a test to that at all. It's it's It's really just relationship building from step one of the application.
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Amy Johnson
51:32
Yeah, we definitely have students do from whole little skits to
It's turning on their camera and going. Hi, i'm this person. And here's what I like to do outside of school. And oh, look at this little origami thing I made, and like just randomly chatter with us, and it's it's wonderful because it is a chance to get to know them a little.
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Lisa Molloy
52:01
All right. It looks like we're kind of slowing down here on the questions, and we're getting close to the top of the hour, so i'm sure it's different hours and time zones for many of us depending on where we're joining from. By the looks of it. There's some international attendance. So thank you for making this time work.
We appreciate your interest in Con World School. And again this will be sent out, the recording will be sent out in a follow up email from our admissions. Advisor. So you can look for that tomorrow.
If you have any questions you're welcome to directly follow up with them, or send in your application, and that will start the process of communication
again. Thank you for your time. We hope you have a good rest of your day or evening, whatever that might be, and we hope to see your application soon.

[Messages in Chat Box]
Amy Johnson
04:59
Welcome Everyone!
Lisa Molloy
05:52
Where is everyone joining us from tonight? What grade is your student (or you) entering in the fall?
I¡¯ll triage answers to questions and ask for your help specifically when needed since I¡¯m only doing my quick portion.
Andrea Jordan
06:33
Washington, 6th
Mary Werthman
07:10
California US, 9th
William Wu
07:52
China, 5th - 10th grade
Gulshat Uspanova
09:30
Czechia, 7th and 11th grades
Lisa Molloy
13:53
Welcome, all! We¡¯re glad you are joining us from all over.
Peter Yobu
21:15
Arkansas 6th
Are AP courses taught?
Amy Johnson
22:16
We do not have AP courses. All of our high school subject courses are honors level and students are encouraged to take classes directly with ASU for college credit beyond the core curriculum.
As an example, junior/senior English will be with ASU, as will all math classes from Pre-calculus onward.
Lisa Molloy
29:37
A recording will be sent out after so you can follow up with the grade level coursework progressions.
Peter Yobu
31:13
Sorry if this was already mentioned, but how is schoolhouse utilizes in KWS?
Lisa Molloy
32:53
Schoolhouse.world is used as a certification and demonstration of mastery for math and science subjects. Once a student is ready to ¡°test out¡± on a subject, they would use Schoolhouse.world to complete the certification and show their mastery.
Schoolhouse.world will be used for certain subjects and certain ages to begin with.
Amy Johnson
38:14
Students can also use those schoolhouse.world certifications to become a certified tutor with schoolhouse.world.
Dejana Becker
43:22
Do you have application deadline?
Lisa Molloy
43:44
We have a rolling application deadline currently though we encourage applications to be sent as soon as possible for priority consideration.
Andrea Jordan
43:59
What is the acceptance process? When are decisions made?
Lisa Molloy
45:10
The application and acceptance process involve a few steps. Applications are sent in for ASU Prep Digital/Khan World School. The Admissions Advisor will contact you about completing the specific KWS application including the items we mentioned in the presentation. Then students will be invited to join a mock seminar that are scheduled. Shortly after this, we would offer admission to the students.
Gulshat Uspanova
45:41
will the credits earned at ASU be accepted by a European university or it is only accepted if a student enrolls to Asu after graduation?
Lisa Molloy
45:41
We are hosting monthly mock seminars starting at the end of March and will make decisions shortly after that for the students involved in that seminar.
ASU credits transfer to most colleges and universities. Students do not need to enroll in ASU to guarantee that credit.
For the European university, we can help support that research because that is a new context for us. However, we do know it transfers everywhere within the U.S.
Dejana Becker
47:36
How many students do you expect to have next school year?
Gulshat Uspanova
47:42
does the school give the certificate of completion of high school ?
Lisa Molloy
48:05
We are aiming for around 50 students per grade level. That would be 150 for middle grades and about 200 for high school. These are flexible depending upon the applications we receive.
All KWS students will graduate with an ASU Prep diploma that is accepted by colleges and universities.
Dejana Becker
49:08
Does the diploma say Khan World School as well?
Lisa Molloy
50:43
With our inaugural class being in ninth grade, we have not issued diplomas to KWS students just yet. We will be finalizing that this coming year and intend for them to say Khan World School. While this isn¡¯t confirmed, I¡¯d be happy to follow up with you on this matter.
Dejana Becker
51:11
Thank you
nyla and Layla
52:41
So once I submit the Digital Prep application, someone will then tell us how to complete the KWS part?
Thank you. That was helpful. What about recommendation letters?
Gulshat Uspanova
57:24
does US citizen living outside the US pay US tuition?