By Melli Popova | Coordinator
Dear Friends,
Last month, our chairman Ivan Gospodinov gave a truly inspirational speech that reminded us yet again how important teachers are. They can be not only role models for their students, but also real superheroes who do much more than what is expected from them. This simple truth inspired us to focus our efforts even more on enabling teachers to help children reach their full potential, also through Khan Academy.
Education Without Backpacks’ first conference and Salman Khan’s first interview for the Bulgarian Audience
In October 2022, we held our first Annual Conference: “The Two Faces of Technology in Education: Stress and Progress”. Teachers, principals, the two previous ministers of education, representatives of the Ministry of Education and its structures, and the expert non-governmental sector in education participated in panel discussions and workshops on topics related to the smart, effective and balanced use of technology, as well as the risks and care for the mental health of teachers and students.
Salman Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, also joined the event remotely. In his first interview for the Bulgarian audience, he discussed how high quality ed tech can help with the problem that teachers and students often focus more on grades than on deep learning. Sal emphasized on the importance of mastery learning and of the human factor in education. Khan Academy founder also talked about his personal experience with burnout and advised teachers to try meditation as a method that successfully helps dealing with stress.
“Mathematics is for everyone” – another national teachers conference and Ivan Gospodinov’s speech
On December 15, 2022, Vasil Levski School in Razgrad organized a National Conference "Mathematics is for everyone". The forum was focused on best pedagogical practices of mathematics education in junior high school. Marieta Radulova and Ivan Gospodinov from our team presented Khan Academy and Salman Khan’s story, and the various possibilities that the tool is giving to teachers and students.
The conference was part of a year-long project – within its framework, we were responsible for training the school team to implement Khan Academy and to help the 6th graders of the school to catch up on gaps in mathematics, especially after the pandemic. This project was awarded as a good practice by Prepodavame.bg and Teach for Bulgaria.
Khan Academy’s popularity is growing!
We are very excited to announce that we just welcomed Khan Academy’s first advertising billboard in Bulgaria, with more on their way! For this amazing opportunity, we are grateful to our generous partners from Omedi and Algorithmity, as well as to one of our long-term individual supporters.
Face to face communication is crucial when it comes to conveying the message of the importance of access to free word-class education. To better explain Khan Academy’s benefits to teachers and students, we participated in several key events as guest speakers, panelists, presenters, exhibitors, including OpenFest 2022, STEAM Shkolo pod para, “Mathematics is for everyone” national conference in Razgrad, VMWare’s Charity Bazaar, and more.
Khan Academy localization for the period October 2022 – January 2023
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New content on Khan Academy – this autumn we published a brand new chemistry course aligned to the Bulgarian curriculum. We also curated and published our first Art history introductory course.
All this is possible thanks to your amazing support, as well as the support of our main partner, the America for Bulgaria Foundation, and other partners, such as the US Embassy in Sofia!
Thank you so much! #YouCanLearnAnything!
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