Welcome and introductions

0:00 hello everyone good afternoon we are slowly welcoming folks into the room thanks for taking the time to join us my name is Philipe esamia I'm the video manager here at KH academy uh shortly we will be joined by S con the CEO and founder of KH Academy he will tell you a little bit about our our mission uh our AI tool and teacher assistant and student tutor called con Migo we also have two senior product managers that'll be joining us GES bras and Sarah Sarah Robert Robertson um I'm going to go ahead and introduce uh Sarah and ginus now tell you a little bit about their roles uh and what they do here at KH Academy and some of the things a little preview of what they'll be presenting today hi Sarah hi gas hey Felipe welcome everybody I'm Sarah Robertson as fipe mentioned I a senior product manager here at KH Academy I am a former English teacher many years ago um also previously worked for commonlit another edtech nonprofit company and I've been at common Academy now for a little over a year mostly I've been focusing on our literacy related initiative so building out content and tools and resources for ELA and Humanities teachers um most

1:11 exciting thing that we've been working on lately is our writing coach tool which I will show you um in detail in a little bit and I'll let gintas share about himself sure thanks Sarah hi everyone my name is gintas I'm a senior product manager on our teacher experience team um and like Sarah I was a teacher in a past life so I was a middle school English teacher taught sixth and seventh grade ELA um and then got pulled into the world of product and uh my team as the name suggests is focused primarily on everything and anything we can do to make the lives of teachers easier and to make it possible for teachers to of course get help their students reach their their learning goals and their needs so it's a it's a fun team to be on it's got a lot of other former Educators on it um also a lot of English teachers we we do go down

2:00 the rabbit hole sometimes with our metaphors so um yeah really excited to show you today about our kigo tools um and what we've been working on to make kigo the ideal uh teachers assistant I just wanted to thank everyone for uh joining I'll just give a little bit of a of background and then hand it over to the KH Academy team to go uh much deeper into things but I'm assuming most folks