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Announcer: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Debbie Jensen: It's an amazing thing to me. And we are at the beginning of it. Although it's been around a long time. But we are at the beginning of it in Adult Ed. And I think as you see it, you will find applications for yourself, and for your schools, and definitely for your students. And so I'm excited for it today.

My name is Debbie Jensen, I was a basic skills instructor at Belmont Park Adult for over 30 years. Today I focus all my time on OTAN and my grandchildren. [laughs] I'm a CK-12 certified instructor, and I today get to share this presentation with Lindsay Kincaid who is a CK-12 wizard. And she's magnificent, and the good news is she's the person who's going to help you when you go and ask for help. We will be giving you her contact information at the end and she's the one that will be there. So she's always there whenever I've needed any help, any questions she's always there, so that's great.

And then Neda has spearheaded this project because of her great love for CK-12, and how much she saw that it would help us as adult educators. So let's let Neda talk first and tell us about things.

Neda Anasseri: Yes, so I have this year-- I always like to share my beginning story with CK-12. I attended a session and it was at a go open event, and the go open is a movement for open educational resources. And I just entered that realm, and I have a lot of love for folks that are going to be able to share resources, teachers to share resources that are free and accessible for our students. And we need that an adult Ed

Our funding is always shifting from here and there. And so when I attended the session, it was very k-12 heavy and I thought, my gosh, if we can only see what some of these pieces in k-12, how we can use it in adult Ed. At the time I was a coordinator of adult education at a local agency. And my teachers needed additional resources.

First of all, our textbooks were very old. I mean, their stamp dates were the 1989 or 1991 etc. So talking about investing thousands of updating these textbooks. But we just didn't have the funding. So how can I bring some of these resources to my adult secondary education teachers, for high school diploma, or high school equivalency that our students can utilize and be able to pass some of their tests or finish their credits and so on.

So I was just mesmerized and in love as soon as I started CK-12. So I started the relationship with Lindsay, and her predecessor or one of her co-workers who's no longer with CK-12 anymore, and that's Carl. And we just had this conversation. So I got my CK-12 educator certification and started playing around with it.

Carl said, hey what do we need to do? We started doing some of these sessions at conferences but then we kind of figured out, hey, you know what's going to really help with the educators? Is having a space on CK-12, so that they know that the resources are available for the adult students. And you know what, it's been a little less than two years and they made that happen for us. So we're very grateful for our partnership with CK-12.

They listen to the needs of our adult learners, they've listened to the needs of our adult educators, and they did exactly what we asked for. And that's partner with us to create a space on the CK-12 platform. That's pretty huge for us, we have to say we are humbled and so appreciative for this partnership. You'll learn today from what you're going to learn from this presentation how magnificent these resources and how it's going to help your learners. And to know that you now as an adult educator have a home and a space there for your learners is even more heartwarming and perfect for our space for our learners.

So with that being said, I'm very grateful to have this partnership and these relationships with our friends at CK-12, and grateful for Debbie being the leader and making this happen for us. So that's all for me but we are very excited about our short URL too, ck12.org/adulted. That's our space, our adult Ed space, thank you so much and I'll hand it back to Debbie.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you, Neda. That website is-- if you want to be going along with us as we're going along and do that double screen, that's where you'll go because you'll be able to kind of play along with us. If you don't want to it's OK because we're going to show it to you, and we're going to go live.

That's one of the things that Lindsay is going to do later, is that all of the questions that you want to ask, whenever they happen just put them in chat. And she's manning the chat, she will answer the questions there but she'll also kind of keep track of what kind of things are you guys interested in, so that when we get to the live we'll know where to go with that. OK, so our objectives for today we're going to go through our slides, and then live, and then we'll give you the contact information. I'm going to show you my journey and how to do things. OK, Lindsay, this is your slide.

Lindsay Kincaid: Yeah, no, again I'm so excited to be here. I love hearing you guys talk about how CK-12's impacting the segments of educators and learners, and it's amazing. So I've been with CK-12 for about 5 and 1/2 years now. And just to give you a little context of who CK-12 is, is we are a nonprofit, out of Palo Alto, California.

And so we've been around since 2007, and absolutely everything on our site is free. You won't see any advertising, you won't ever hit a paywall, there's not like a premium version, there's nothing like that. Our mission is just to make education accessible to everyone all around the world and all types of learners. And so anyway, so that's exciting but I'm not here to sell you anything. This is where this is all here for your taking, so find which part of this that you enjoy that you think will have impact, and start using it right away without any barriers. So that's awesome.

But we do have millions of users, again, we're not quite a household name that we would like to be at, but we're big in the education space. And especially during coronavirus times, we've been very popular as have all online solutions. But we're pleased to be an answer for so many people. If you go to the next slide, Debbie, just wanted to say that sometimes people think that, oh no free. What does that mean? Does that still mean that the quality is there?

And so I just want to assure you that we are the top quality content. That our content was created by people with PhDs and we've got collaborations with NASA scientists. And then these are living books, these are books that you're able to customize if you choose to.

And our team is always improving, so things like coronavirus you're going to find those in our books. Pluto's a planet, that's not a planet, that's a planet. Anything that's ever changing like that or the Mars landing, all of that can be in our book instantaneously. That isn't something that those books collecting dust on the shelves quite are able to do. So just know that we are always making changes and improvements in keeping it current. And then we have the right people who have their hands in these books.

And then the other mission of K-12 is to make everything accessible. So all of our developers from day 1, really, we've been trying to make it platform agnostic. So we're going to work on your Macs, your PCs, your tablets, your phones, your desktop computers, and then any customized FlexBook can also be downloaded as a PDF. So for people who need offline access, we're proud of all the digital interactive things that we can do.

So you lose a little bit when you take our content offline but sometimes you have to. And so you are able to take the text and print some PDFs if you need to as well. So Debbie's going to talk to you just kind of about the breadth of what we offer.

We're pretty robust, we offer a lot of things but she's really paired it down to I think what is going to help you the most in working with the adult learners and adult educators. And so we're going to let her talk and I'll man the chat window for a little bit. And then again I'll pop on at the end to kind of do any live demoing that that might be helpful to you to show you more about CK-12.

Debbie Jensen: Thanks, Lindsay. OK, think about it. If you had a wish list, what do you want most as a teacher? And it's to be able to meet the needs of every student. But traditionally, we've always had to satisfy the needs of the majority knowing that some of the needy students were slipping through the cracks. And through technology. Today, with the help of technology, we can individualize assignments and offer them in more than one modality. But now, think better still.

Now there are customizable digital textbooks with interactive content, including adaptive practice, simulations, interactives, and study guides. CK-12 has offered teacher assistants to our classrooms to give insights into what our teachers need to know about their students. At CK-12 they recognize that all people everywhere learn in their own way. So technology at its best should assist learning. So CK-12 has accepted that challenge, and they join technology with quality content.

Then they equip students and teachers with everything they need to access the resources and assess the student learning. To top it all off, they've created a platform for you to take your existing content, the things you use every day, and modify it or add to the CK-12 in your text. You can even start from scratch with a blank FlexBook to point out and create your own resource completely.

So what it means is you have a smart 21st century FlexBook 2.0 that can include video, interactive simulations, assistive practice that assesses student progress and guides the learning. Making the problems, questions more difficult or less difficult, depending on the student, and if the student is struggling suggesting other media such as videos or real life applications. As you can see, this is the list of subjects and I had to change this slide two days ago because it changed. And that's one of the other things about CK-12, is you can come back and things will be bigger, all the time bigger.

As you can see, they have lots of subjects available, the list gets longer. Their very first digital efforts were in the STEM courses; science technology, engineering, and mathematics. But they've branched out including courses made by community partners. And new, and you need a drum roll here, as of March 2nd, notice this section, Adult Education.

Across the top of the dashboard you're going to see different ways to connect to content. Because with so much available, how do you find what you want? Take time to explore it. When you find something you like, just click on it and say Add to your library, it kind of collects it all for you. After I began searching for material for my math class, the very next time I got back on to see CK-12, they had recommendations for me and that's what you see in the 1 area. At 2, you can search by standards aligned to the FlexBook. At 3 you can do concept maps, and at 4 you can use just a regular search in the search bar for your topic.

Their textbooks have always included interactive activities and quizzes but recently, they ramped it all up with their FlexBook 2.0 series. These textbooks have added simulations, real world examples, and practice that adapts to the student's performance. They use artificial intelligence to first recognize what the student doesn't understand, and then adapt the digital response to the student's needs.

Their resources include FlexBooks 2.0, regular FlexBooks, that was their originals. adaptive practice, simulations, PLIX which stands for play, learn, interact, and explore, and study guides. They also have concepts grouped by Common Core and NGSS standards. They include a list of districts and schools that are using their materials.

When I was first introduced to CK-12, I was thrilled that subjects were taught to the strengths of the student's visual kinesthetic etc. But now not only are subjects presented to different strengths, but student performances analyzed, strengths and opportunity areas of need to help they're all uncovered. You'll know where your students are struggling and then they make suggestions for what to do with that information.

CK-12 will organize your students into a digital classroom and access an intelligent grade book that easily displays what the students are doing and reveals patterns. So that is one of the ways they can address the grading portion for you, they kind of just take care of it. But you can also use your own LMS if you're doing Google Classroom, or Canvas, or Schoology, and they're even opening up to more.

I was using Google Classroom so I didn't want to use CK-12's grading platform of creating the class there. And I moved it right into my Google Classroom and it was just very smooth. Last year FlexBooks 2.0 took off and see now it's probably not last year, it's probably a year before that. [laughs] So that's when I thought this year they're even better, they're always improving.

Just yesterday I changed the slides for this presentation because more has been added and improved to empower not just the teacher, but also the student. OK, so let's look and see what simulations are like. And, again, because it's static you're going to have to just do a little imagining. But look at the topics, this is Physics, they also have Chemistry. The Physics sections include driverless cars, scientific measurement, metric units, unit conversions, rockets and acceleration, and prom night when reflection mirrors and plane mirrors or explored.

So they take what's happening in the real world and then they show you the science and the behind it. PLIX, again, stands for play, learn, interact, and explore. The activities allow the student to experiment to change one thing and watch how the other thing adapts to it. So they get to experience what would happen if they were kind of in a lab doing it. On this page we're looking at the mathematics ones on the one, and the life science on the other.

Such things as order of operation. What would change if some value changed? Introduction to combining integers. Simple interest, rounding, natural selection, ecosystems, the water cycle, chemical reactions, pH, and that's the tip of the iceberg.

Now, I know you probably don't think study guides are much of an impressive thing, they've been around forever. But I really love their study guides. These study guides were created with the assistance of students. And they allow the student to underline and annotate and in the study guides as well, so they're wonderful.

And then [auctioneer chant] here's our partnership. This email-- no, I'm saying the wrong word. This website address that you're seeing is the one that was good up till yesterday. Now we have the shortened one. They both work, but you can see how they're trying so hard to get everything ready for today so that we could launch this and you can get to this.

Now, eventually, they'll make it so that when you go to that page that has all of the different subjects, and you saw the Adult Ed section circled, that you'll be able to click there and get to it. That's coming, they're still working. I don't know when they sleep but that's what they're doing. So this is us and this is now.

Now, right now the sections that we are doing with the Adult Ed education section are ABE and ACE diploma and high school equivalency. But we are anxiously trying to also get CTE up there. There is so much that is in CK-12 that the CTE teachers will love and be able to use.

But what we need is we need teachers of those courses to put together what you need for automotive, or what you need for culinary, or cosmetology, or whatever it is. And then we can create those courses, post those courses, and they'll be available to everyone. It's really, really exciting.

So I'm just going to scroll down through the Adult Ed education section and just show you what you're going to see. The first part is ABE. Right now the focus is math, and these were made by different people. So when you look at it and you say, well, why do you have four math courses for ABE?

The reason is they were made by different people and they dealt with what their class needed. That's one of the cool things. You take a look at the table of contents of any course, if you don't like something get rid of it. If you want to move it because you teach it in a different order, move it. If you have an activity that you use that you want to include, add it.

This one is a high school diploma in equivalency, and you can see that we already have 16 courses up there. The ones that are included for-- we've got US history, US government, economics, biology, chemistry, physics, pre-algebra and algebra 1, that's for high school. The equivalency ones were foundational math, algebra basics, geometry, data statistics and probability, algebra.

And then again we have other teachers that have also put courses in, and so they looked at things differently. And so we have mathematics companion and science companion. And then the science for high school equivalency which was one of my favorites because if you look at science, it's big.

But if you look at what's required for the GED or the high set it's this. You don't need this, and what the teacher did is she pared it down. So it's already been done for you, it's so exciting. Another thing that I'm excited by is this. This was one of the teachers who thought that her adult students might need a little help in maneuvering around in CK-12. So she made a series of little videos, they're all here in this introduction. And you can have the introduction and just add it to whatever course you have.

She was teaching them how to use PLIX, how to take notes and highlight, how to learn to use reading. Her section's called learning through reading. It's exciting, I want to put it in all my courses. OK, the very next section asks, are you an educator? Are you a student? Now, let's pursue each one.

If we're an educator they are going to give you three steps to get started. Create a class, find your FlexBook, assign your students. And each one of those they'll take and walk it through for you. Did I discuss that there's more than just FlexBooks? And that was one of the things that I hadn't even realized at first was you can take pieces, snippets, just an adaptive practice that you want to just add to your class.

You don't have to take the whole lesson, you can just take the adaptive practice. Or a PLIX activity or a simulation. And so that means you truly do have thousands and thousands of things to look at. Then they take you through what they call a Deeper Dive. With strategies for how to use your CK-12, FlexLets, which started for COVID.

They are mini courses which are wonderful because it's like they've boiled out and just kept the most important things. And so definitely you want to look for those because they're great. How to customize and get started with either Canvas or Schoology is right there.

Now, let's look as a student. Because I hope that we've wowed you with what they do for you as a teacher, we're going to make it bigger. Let's look at what it goes for the student. They have a little character, and I asked my grandson what it looked like? And he said it's an orange friend, I thought it looked like a chick but that's OK. [laughs] They had this little orange guy that's down here in the left bottom corner, and he's there in everything that the students do.

So what does he do? Well, he assists in their learning. Providing immediate feedback to help the students learn the concepts. He'll also answer their questions and provide interactive examples. He'll test their student learning by asking relevant questions at their skill level, he helps with assignments with hints recommendations and reinforcement.

He'll provide reminders of upcoming assignments and topics that need to be reviewed, or that's unfinished that the student needs to do and they haven't done it yet. He helps keep the students on track. And then he also helps them with self reflection. Cool. [laughs]

All right, so we're just continuing scrolling down the adult education web page. And so here they go and review once again the various things that are available. And, again, always, always remember that there's more to come, that there's always-- things are expanding and growing.

One of the things that, again, was important to me was I used Google Classroom, and so I wanted CK-12 to go in there. And so they do, they'll integrate with your own LMS systems. This was fun for me, it was daunting. They have hundreds of testimonials, and each one of these teachers are going to tell you a different insight.

We had space for nine, so I listened to everybody. And I tried to figure out which ones I thought would be the best for us, but let me share some of the things that they've said. We have the director of the Coeur d'Alene school district who wanted his students to investigate and experience lessons. To go at their own pace and design their own learning.

With CK-12, teachers can tailor their own FlexBooks with their own materials. Another teacher told of a student who was complaining that he couldn't do his homework because he didn't have a computer at home. And the student sitting beside him said, dude, just use your phone. [laughs] So that's cool especially for our adult students.

In the next video, we have a teacher that was complaining that he was in science and everything was always dated. No matter when you bought the textbooks it's dated the next day. This is even worse with US history. How would you know about the things that have happened just recently? In our textbooks it's not there, but it is and can be here and that's remarkable.

The Community tab contributes all sorts of things. And it's fun to see what they've created, what they've gathered, it's like you've got all these different people gathering from all over and you just get to pick. And so it's cool. The books that you create are living documents, one teacher liked the Adaptive Practice very much because she always knew where every student was, knew how much time they'd spent, which ones that gave them trouble. And we will look at this a little bit later, just how helpful the information they give is.

The next teacher loved the flexibility, she no longer needed to take materials home because all she had to do was have her FlexBook and then she could just-- it was always there. The next is a science teacher and she just flatly says after she's done several of these, but this one was-- my students love it. They love the fact that the learning is in their hands and that they can, if they're more interested in one topic, they can go with it. If they need more help in a topics they can go with that.

And it empowers the students. The next one, the gentleman in the bottom in the middle, said there's so much more than FlexBooks here. That when he has any topic this he's teaching he just puts it in the search bar. And then he's got many, many things that he can look at to improve his lessons. And then the last lady and this one's really for us.

She talked about a father who was trying to help his child with their schoolwork. And he wasn't really good at English and so he was apologizing and she said that's OK. CK-12 can change the language to over 90 languages. Isn't that adult education? [laughs] We can reach everyone so it's all exciting.

All right, so this was my experience. OK, so I used the subjects in the Explore buttons, you can also use a search box to write in what you're looking for. OK, I wanted-- this originally was a math course that I needed help with, I need some math lessons. And so at first, because I'm adult Ed and I want basic skills, I was using arithmetic and so that's what you see at 1.

At 2 I wanted to focus on fractions because they just were struggling with that. And then, again, I could dig down deeper and go into comparing fractions using pictures. And then I wanted the Adaptive Practice so that I could see how the students were doing in what we had assigned them.

Now, I just also recently worked with the CK-12 Algebra Basics for High School Equivalency, this is one of our new courses. And to work with this course you pick it. Then the green button that says choose, you click on that. You have choices of assigning it right from the get go or you can add it to your library.

So if you're planning on working on this one then add it to your library. You can customize it and that's what you're going to do when you're going to look at all the table of contents and decide what you want. But also notice the downloading the PDF. Now, if you put it in PDF form you're going to lose the interactives, obviously, because it's not online.

But some school districts this is what they need. And so that is available to you as well. This is if when I click Customize this is where I get. There's the table of contents, you see the ordering of the math. If I don't teach it in that order, I can turn it around, I can change it the way I want to. I can add my own lessons here. Over to the right side, you see the little edit icons, so that there's things that I can change and add there.

But at the very least, make it yours, put a picture of your school on it. Put the title that this is your school's textbook, and that's very, very simple to do. Now, again, I've been working on this for a few years I just-- Lindsay, I love her to death. She taught me this and I'll owe her forever.

Whenever I was doing it, I would have to go back up to the original and track my school, and track me over, and bring me down. And, I mean, I could get around but it was slow and it was tedious. Well, no, this is what you want to do. You go up to your profile and then there is a shortcut list. So you can go directly back to your classes or directly back to your library. It's all right there and you can move quickly from one thing to another.

If you're going to be using CK-12 and use them to house your class, then that's the next step, you create a class. They're going to store the textbook at CK-12, they're going to link to it. They're going to assist you with all the record-keeping and the evaluation of the students. Or you can use an LMS and this list grows.

So if you're not Classroom, Canvas or Schoology buy you're another, that's a question to see. If that one is being worked on, if it's how soon it will be done and that kind of stuff because they are adding LMS transitioning to that to use it. OK, so I'm just showing you how quickly it was for me with using Google Classroom.

They asked me for my account and the classroom that I'm going to attach it to, and then I clicked on it and moved it forward. They said you've done a great job, the lesson appears in classroom, class works in my classroom. This is what the student sees, going on to where it's circled, that is-- you can see the little CK-12 logo. That's the lesson and it's right there available for the student to use. And there's the grade, and so my work's been done, it's very, very nice.

Now, there's a few last items. The community partners don't not look there. That is huge, CK-12 has huge amounts of material. But the community partners, many of them were looking at things like, well, you don't have an economics course and my high school needs, my high school students, my diploma students need an economics course.

And so school districts got together worked with their standards and making sure that everything was aligned and they created this. So in the community partners you will find many things that will be very helpful to you. CK-12 will monitor the assignments as the student works. You can't be everywhere, but they can.

And there's many, many, many choices that you're going to be able to do. I was before the COVID struck, I was preparing a presentation to all of our CTE teachers. To try and just show them what was available that they would be able to use. And it's impressive, there's so much that can be done, and I love the grades and reporting. This is a picture of the schools that have embraced. These are just in California, there's all around the world.

Including Sweetwater, Santa Barbara Unified School District, Fremont High school, Poway. OK, so I'm going to do it once more so you don't forget anything. There's tens of thousands of free customizable STEM resources, and the resources are growing daily. You get help in gaining insights about student performance and content that can be assigned to the students to meet each one's needs. Assignments can be made for the entire class or differentiated for groups or for individual students personalized learning at its very, very best.

Now, again, I had thought my presentation was all done and then Lindsay and I got together. And this is new but it's really amazing. OK, on the left, you're going to see a lesson, this is in integers in the real world. There's that Flexi guy in the bottom left, which is a little one beside it that's him. So we're seeing that the textbook are inside the FlexBook. Now, up at the top at the right where the number 2 is there's a little lightning icon, and that's going to take you to insights.

But the problem that they were finding was that you can't see insights and how it works unless you have a class. Well, you don't have a class yet, [laughs] so you can't see how it works. So they created a demo class so that now we can really show you what it looks like in and see how cool it is. OK, so we're going to click there, go to the demo class. And you'll see demo graphs that are of the engagement and the skill level.

You will see the class performance level, this one's from low to high, we can reverse it. You see the students that haven't turned it in, it's all right there. And then this is the cool. Notice the little icons smiley faces and the frowny faces. OK, this is only three out of nine students who turned in this assignment have reached the Adaptive Practice goal of answering questions correctly and you're going to go, oh my, what now?

But then they recommend to you remind the students to complete the goal of answering 10 questions correctly. Down at the bottom three students in your class are doing exceptionally well on this concept. And then they tell you the names of the students, so you know who's doing really, really well and who's not. The second one they give you some more help. The top four questions the students have answered incorrectly are noted below, and so here are related paragraphs and questions to help them.

It's done for you, it's so exciting. All right, so I asked you at the first what if your textbook could engage every student anywhere using any device 24/7 and it was free? Well, that's here and that's now. At first I wasn't sure how to integrate it in my class but it's kind of like I went to a conference and they had 3D printers. And I looked at it and I thought, hmm, interesting. I could not think of any way to put that in my class.

This is the excitement that we have by living today, and seeing all of the amazing things that can be done. And CK-12's right there, this is cutting edge and it's there for your students. All right, now, I'm going to stop here and we're going to now look at the chat, see what the questions are, and what we can do to help.

Lindsay Kincaid: We haven't had any questions really coming in yet. So maybe now's a good time to just stop and pause either verbally if you all want to unmute yourself and ask a question since it's a smaller group here, or if you want to put some questions in the chat. Again, I'm going to be going live to the site and kind of showing you how you would onboard yourself and get started. But based on what Debbie's shown you, what are some of the immediate questions that we can help answer for you?

Jacqueline Cisneros: Hi, this is Jacqueline Cisneros from West Contra Costa adult ed. Yeah, I'm wondering-- I'm so happy about the Adult Ed content, I just have to say. Because I became familiar with CK-12 probably about two years ago. And that was something that I was looking for so I'm glad to see that there but I'm looking-- so I see that math I think is good. I love the HSE resources, but I was wondering about like the adult basic Ed English.

I know that you guys are into the science, technology, engineering kind of side but I was wondering about the English resources. And I also had another question about the community content. Is there someone who goes through and vets the content to make sure that it's OK? Because I know there's some school districts where there are some different ideas of how history should be explained, and it's not history it's their interpretation or what they want people to believe about it.

So I was just wondering about that process. In any way is it like Wikipedia where anyone can get high or drunk and just throw stuff up [laughs] on the platform, or is it someone who's like looking at it saying let me flag this because this looks a little sketchy. That's all.

Lindsay Kincaid: Let me jump in on both of those as, again, the CK-12 representative here. I'll take your last question first, which is the community content of how that works on our site. Maybe I'll go ahead and start sharing my screen right now and just show you. Basically, we have kind of a partition on our site where we very carefully segment what is CK-12 and what is community contributed.

So for instance, if you are looking for-- well, what were you asking? You're asking about language arts. CK-12 from the get go it was always math, science, and then a smattering of other STEM subjects. And we are developing with partners other content. So you are not wrong in your assessment that you're not seeing a whole lot of English right now. I think that's an area of growth for us that's we're looking to do.

In fact, I was talking to the founder, our executive director about this and I said, what happens when all these adult Ed folks are really excited about our offerings but they want us to make sure that we're covering all of the subject areas that are required? And she said, well, we're just going to have to document those requests and see if we can get on that. So your request has already been documented for that.

But one way to find the difference between CK-12 content and community contributed content is I just searched for something up here in the search bar, and then notice that anything under CK-12 content says that it's been created by CK-12. And then the community contributed content. So these are folks who have-- I'd say the majority of them have probably taken one of our FlexBooks and made some customizations to it.

So it's still going to largely be CK-12 content but we put it here under this community contributed tab just to make sure that it's clear to you all that no, CK-12 has not given any sort of a stamp of approval. No, our team of 35 people have not run through each of these books. But you can see that Michaela Bates worked on this third grade language arts book. And you can open it up and, again, maybe she's got some starter content in there that would work well for you that you could pull into a book that you're creating.

So we find that there's value in keeping the community contributed out there for everybody even though we haven't vetted them all. And our process is different from Wikipedia, we don't do any sort of collaborative editing in the same way. So we don't have live text being updated. Michaela is totally in charge of this book and when she makes updates to it she has to actively publish the book to kick those updates over to the site. And again would be under this community contributed tab.

So for you all who are thinking about creating content or modifying our content, just know that it doesn't automatically show up in these search results. There is that privacy is you're still working on it that you have to elect at the end of the process to press publish and make it searchable for everybody else. Which hopefully if you've created something awesome you'll do that but there's no pressure. Some people are weirded out. People can see a lot of time when I'm working on and that's not how the site works, we take it in a little incremental steps.

So no on the English yet, but I think that's definitely an area that we're hoping that you're going to be seeing on if I go back to our home page here on our adult education page soon. But Debbie who helped curate and create these books she was basically working off of CK-12's core offerings and most of them are in math and science. And then these US history ones and to answer your question of these books specifically were and part of our partnership with El Paso independent School District

And so we made the note of that here because you're right, it is important especially in areas of social studies. Who's telling the version of this? So we made sure to clearly mark that. So this is aligned to the Texas TEKS and this was originally created in partnership with El Paso.

But again, you can go through this and see which of these units do you think are of value, and if there are some that you are not a fan of or you need to add more, that's we're coming down and pressing customize and dragging and dropping and rearranging and all of that works for you. So that's kind of how to read what's going on with our authors and descriptions and things like that.

Speaker 6: Hello, I have a question. Well, not really a question but just-- OK, I'll explain it. So I went to this the CK-12 thing at TDLS like two years ago, two or three years ago. And I was so excited and I brought it all back to everyone and nobody was really interested. Just because we weren't really going-- not because of everything else just because we weren't really going online route and they just we're happy with the books everything that we had.

Well, obviously now it's COVID, it's kind of switched a little bit. I was wondering if you could send me information so I could pass it on to the powers at my school to see you can start this process again. Because I really feel like right now we have an online program but it's like the students want to go more with a book. This would be a great option for them.

Lindsay Kincaid: Totally, and I'll give you my contact information or I'll show you just how to get in touch with me on this CK-12 Adult Ed page. At the bottom-- because this is going to be probably your starting point for a lot of CK-12 journeys here. At the bottom it says, still have questions? Email us at partners@ck12.org and I'm the person who goes through all of our partners' requests.

So if you just want to send a quick email and say, hey, I was in your TDLS session. Send information to my whoever your colleagues are at these email addresses or whatever, I'll be happy to help do whatever I can. And that's an online demo, a virtual conversation, an email, whatever can kick start that conversation.

Speaker 6: OK, thank you so much because I think this is just such a great thing, I'm just trying to get everyone else on board. [laughs]

Lindsay Kincaid: Yeah, and I feel like we were-- CK-12's kind of ahead of the times for a long time that people weren't ready to get rid of their textbooks, still going through traditional adoption cycles. And I feel like the past couple of years just the nature of open educational resources. And how teachers are sourcing from so many different places anyway and putting them in a learning management system of we're just we're one of those tools and, again, we're free and we're one that 13 years in the industry we're not going to fold in the next couple of days.

We're here to we're here to stay, so I think there's confidence in that as well, which is I know a concern as teachers are always there introduce this new platform and this new thing and we aren't new, we've been here for quite a while.

Debbie Jensen: Lindsay, one of the things that I had the same thing with my school district. I came in, I was so excited and so I put it in my class so that it was there. So that my students started talking about it with other students. Then I went to specific teachers and said, hey, you should get on. And I didn't get the warm clapping response I wanted, so I know what you're up against. But here's the thing, we've got to get the administrators on board.

And OTAN it's going to be having, and others, a series of webinars and we're going to be at every conference and so please, please, please, put a bug in your administrators ear to come to them at those conferences. We're going to be at CCAE, we're going to be at the Courses Summer Institute. And there's others, Neda can tell us more about them, about all the ways.

Because we know, I mean, we thought that we would have a lot of people here. You are the wonderful ones and we are so appreciative of you. But this is-- it's not a hard sell, it's just a mind shift and that's one of the challenges. So have your administrators attend the sessions so that we can address their questions and help them.

Neda Anasseri: Yeah, like Debbie just said we're going to have on the adult Ed calendar a series of webinars just like something similar to this and maybe dive a little deeper. So that would be a perfect time and, I mean, and then Lindsay's offer of actually doing something for your agency specifically. So I think there are many ways that we can support this effort. And Kim, can you Remind me what agency you're in? And I feel like I know but--

Lindsay Kincaid: All Star Adult School?

Neda Anasseri: Yeah, so we have also Jill and Vicki at DLAC So who you can potentially work together with and possibly use their DLAC-- their association with the digital leadership along with to approach your administrators. Just an idea but we can talk more offline about some of the strategies. But yes, I agree there there's so much more coming on this topic.

Lindsay Kincaid: If it's OK, let me jump into one of these books because I know Debbie kind of give you the overview of what you're going to find in all of them. But and also, an effective way to win over your colleagues or decision makers is just to take them into a lesson and give them a tour of a lesson and then they're like, oh I get it, this is a super powerful.

So I'll do a science one first and then we'll jump into a math one as well. But this is our book on our FlexBook 2.0 platform that's science high school equivalency. And you can see that it's the partnership of CK-12 and OTAN. You can see that it was last modified February 13, 2021. So this always gives you an idea of was content currently updated? Is this book from 2015?

You get some context for it. You can see who the authors are of these books, which includes our original authors as well as Debbie who is working on it with OTAN, information about the standards. What I appreciate about these books though, is that we've got all these different chapters, and let's find one that I get excited about. I'm a former English teacher so you can tell I'm really pushing for the English teacher stuff. But there's a lesson in here that I love that's on physical science, work and machines, and it's on levers.