Today I'm really excited that you're here to learn about using CESA for assessment in the pre-K through second grade classroom. We are honored of course that you are spending time, your own time to expand your knowledge about CESA and if you are just joining a webinar for the very first time, just note that you get the recording email to automatically after this session along with the slides as well. And those of you watching the recording via YouTube, welcome as well. You can at any moment pause the recording after this live session and boy, just completing individual assessments make you feel like this. I think this was an actual photograph of me a few years ago in May, I believe. But yeah, it can be really stressful, right? Or maybe it's like this, right? You can't even do this, but we're going to change your perspective today and really our plan is to walk through a couple of classroom examples of how CESA can really support you as you are trying to tackle not only one-on-one assessments, but those formative assessments, some summative assessments with students, but also really save you a lot of time, but give you in-depth knowledge about your students as well. So we're going to do some how-to, we're going to get to explore as a student, and then of course we're going to spend some time answering your questions. Now, I've talked for a little while and if you don't know me, I'm Angela. I taught kindergarten for 15 years, so I love anytime I can talk with my primary teacher friends and spread a little CESA love. I lead the community team now at CESA and basically what that means is I was so passionate about it. I wanted to help other teachers learn about this great tool and get started in their own classrooms. So that's what I get to do full-time now, and you can connect with me on Twitter at Mrs. Gadki. I'd love to hear from you. And of course, we are excited to support you in your needs to on Twitter, just at CESA. So check that out. Just another quick note here before you really start cruising. At any point, if you have questions, you can type them in the question box, and I'll try to get to those as we are progressing through this session. And just a note too, we're really focused in this session. I mean, you can go really, really deep with different strategies for assessment. And the way I'm approaching this session is really to kind of give you some ideas that you can use tomorrow in your classroom. So these are really, really simple things that you're probably already doing in some way, shape, or form regarding assessments.  So okay, let's just pause for a moment and let me share with you why I love CESA for assessment. And it really gives all students voice, some choice and ownership in the process, makes their thinking visible. And I love the fact that I can clone myself, save me a lot of instructional time or stressful time when I'm trying to maybe work with one student and 23 of my other friends are often about doing their thing as well. Simple, powerful, super organized, great way to document and show growth, and of course that communication with family. So all sorts of goodness, as I'm sure you know if you're already using CESA, we already went through some poll questions. So we're going to keep cruising here. I'm going to just start with some classroom examples. Again, these are really just kind of basic things that you can do in terms of rethinking some some approaches to assessment in your classroom. So just starting really simple, and if you have come to Brandy to CESA Part 1, I talk a little bit about this, but it's amazing the insight you can get from just a photo. Okay, so in this example here, maybe you're just doing a quick math check. The students are just using a photo tool, and in this example, these were students showing me what they could do with patterns, you know, two color patterns. I mean, how many times have you looked at your assessment checklist and looked at, you know, maybe the 25 things that you have to gather on each student and thought, oh my goodness, how am I going to do this? But you've also, at least in my experience, have also cringed in some states, some situations, I'd say, where you're pulling students back to work with you and you're thinking, where's their ownership in this process?  So I think in these examples too, there's a lot of choice. They're choosing how they're going to create their pattern. They're telling me what they know instead of me, you know, pulling them back and saying at a certain time, show me this, show me this. This is another example from my friend Cindy Vance, who is a kindergarten teacher. And this is just, I think, another super simple example, but pretty transformative way to approach how you are gathering assessment information from your students. So this is an example of a station. So she has set up the station. She has a task that she needs to check in with every single one of her students. Can they count, you know, the specific number of objects into a bin? So again, as you can imagine, and I think we've all done this, where we've had to do a similar situation with students one-on-one and you're sitting there watching them count. This is another way, another twist on that. So setting it up at the station, she has the number of bins there, the manipulist close by and students fill those bins or buckets with the corresponding number of objects and then they take a photo. So again, this teacher has evidence of their student performance just basically from this photo that is captured and added to CESA. And again, great to kind of reference back to as well. Another example of setting up a station, this is actually from my classroom. One of the assessments that students did throughout the entire district was we had students order numbers from, you know, lowest number to highest number and they had specific numbers that they had to work with. So I basically approached this and thought, okay, I can give these numbers to the students and I can have them ready in the materials I prepare and off they go. They can do this and take a picture in CESA and we're going to be, you know, good to go. So in this example, I mean, you're going to get to hear a little tidbit here. So let's take a listen. Okay, so what's interesting about this is, you know, these little friends didn't even need to record any reflection but this little friend did and a couple of things just to point out. So I gained additional information beyond what I needed because I can see he's putting these numbers in order. He's giving me some more insight as to what he is understanding even in terms of their positioning. But I don't know if you heard but in the background there's a lot of other things going on in the classroom at the time. So I think that's another reflection of, you know, and I heard myself in the background. So I'm working with other students. This friend is showing me what he knows. I'm getting this assessment information that I can later look at and review and I'm not, you know, taking that instructional time away from other students as well. So I think this is a pretty common one, especially at our grade level band here, are site word assessments, right? So depending on, of course, the age of students you're working with but definitely if you are, I think pretty much all of us in the, in for sure the K2 crowd are doing some form of site word assessment and we have to know that they can read the site words. So CISA is just a perfect complement to that. So it can, you can approach this in a couple of ways. So you can simply hang up a site, you know, a list of words. Students can take a photo and just tap that mic and start recording their voice. Or as a teacher, you can add a pre, you know, a list to CISA as an activity and students complete it that way as well. So I think in this example, I've played this before if you came to brand new to CISA, but I'll just play it again for those of you that may never heard, not have heard it yet. I can read this week's site words. They're about explained school word because able between different couldn't. Okay. So again, 10 seconds here. I have a great insight as to what the student knows. And you might be thinking, how did that word where get circled as a teacher? When I'm approving them, I can tap the three dots under a post and edit it to, to circle. So again, that is insight for me, but also the student as well. They get that feedback in their post. So what I would like to do is go on to another example. So this is a second grader. And I think some of these, some of obviously the things that we are, are trying to gain from our students when we're working with assessments, sometimes has to do with applying their vocabulary as well. So which is difficult. And when you're assessing, you know, using spoken language or applying vocabulary is tricky, but I think CISA comes into play in that as well. So this is again, an opportunity for the student to have some ownership in this, right? They're choosing the materials they use in this example. This is a student that has taken a photo. They're drawing on the photo and then recording their voice. So this is done. This is the example is done on an iPad and you can also do it on an Android where you're recording and talking at the same time. But again, this is a second grader that is explaining rounding. So let's listen. I have 13 levels and I'm going to show you how to round a number. I like to think of it as a mountain and 5 is here and 0 is here. And the numbers below 5 round to 0 and the numbers above 5 round to 10. And with my number 13, I would just add a 10 to everyone. And then since 13 is closer to 10 and 20, I would say the rounding to 10 is 10. Okay. So great explanation, right? So again, we have choice. We have voice. We can see vocabulary being applied. I have that in their portfolio. I can use that for evidence of a certain standard or skill that they've met. Families get that insight as well. This is a letter, an example of letter sounds. So I know, again, a lot of us out there, especially in early primary, are constantly looking at what students are able to do regarding letter sounds. So in this example, again, this student example is from Cindy Vance again. And the activity that she has done is basically through the activity feature had students show what they know with letter sounds. So I'm just going to play this one. Okay. So I'm not going to play the whole thing, but do you hear Cindy in the background reading a story to the whole group, right? So this little friend is probably in a little corner of the classroom and recording spot showing what they know about letters. And I'm guessing that students in her class, which would be in my class with shared devices, are maybe going through the station. So if one student finishes, another student can go over and kind of share what they know about those letter sounds. So again, I think we're saving at least 30 minutes, right? So if you have a class of 25 students that you're trying to assess letter sounds with one on one, that's a lot of time that you can now gain back in instruction and actually working and supporting your students in the classroom, but still getting this valuable assessment info from them with the help of CISA. So we're going to get going here as a student in just a moment, but I'm actually going to pause and see if you have any questions right now about any examples that I shared or things kind of going around in your brain right now thinking, gosh, how did that actually work? Or tell me a little bit more about that. So if you have any question regarding any of the examples that I shared so far, go ahead and type that into the question box. This is also a good time to make sure you have a second device handy if you'd like to participate today as a student. So we are actually going to join a CISA class so we can play around with what this feels like from the student experience so that when you go back into your classroom even tomorrow, you can give one of these a go. Beth, thanks. She's Beth's excited about this information. Awesome. Okay, so Fanny is asking, how do I add a photo to the site words of the site words in CISA? So Fanny, two ways you can do that. So you can as a teacher actually create an activity where when you're creating activity and we're going to talk about that as we get started here, you can create an activity and add the photo of your site words as a template so that when students tap the add button on the activity that list just pops right up at them. Or your students can tap the big green add button in the journal view and take a photo of a site word list and just start reading from there. So we're going to go through some examples with that pretty soon. Okay, so Carleen is asking, are most of these ones you have made or are they part of the library? So great question. Some of these assessments, so some of the examples are literally from my kindergarten classroom. I think if you go into the CISA activity library and search Angela Cesar, that's where I have a lot of my activities listed under my profile, Angela Cesar. So check those out, you'll find some of them there. But other ones, I don't know if I have exactly all of them listed there, but take a peek. Oh, Lisa, great one. So Lisa is asking, how do you make the arrow appear? So in that one where the students were reading, you know, doing the letter sounds, so basically that little magical arrow is only available on iPads. So what happens is when students are in the drawing tool, so when they tap the drawing tool and they draw, if they hit the record button inside the drawing tool, once they hit that record button inside the drawing tool, on the bottom there's an option that pops up that's an arrow. So if they tap that arrow and then start moving their finger around, it turns into an arrow, which is pretty awesome, but it only shows up after you hit record in there. So, okay, Alexandra, great. Glad you love those examples. So Kelsey is wondering, we have two tablets in our classroom. I have 48 students total. Oh girl, love it. How can I organize this so my students can participate with only two tablets? So Kelsey, I just did a webinar yesterday called Five Tips for Shared Devices. So definitely check that out on YouTube, our YouTube channel, Seaside YouTube channel, Five Tips for Shared Devices, or look on our PD calendar, our PD website, and if you click on that webinar, it will take you right to the recording, you know, right after this. But I think just really quickly, I would probably, I think setting up a station would be a great example of that. So, okay, questions are cleared out for now. So let's continue on as a student. So you have your second device ready. And again, if you're brand, brand, brand new to CISA, I'm moving faster than I typically would at this point, but I think you'll do great. Make sure when you tap CISA on your device right now that you are not signed in as a teacher. So if you are signed in as a teacher right now, I'm gonna show you on the screen how to get signed out. So you tap on your upper left, your profile icon, and then the gear icon, and then, whoops, sign out at the bottom. So that gets you signed out as a teacher, so it looks like this. So all of us wanna be like this right now. If you're using your second device, when you tap CISA, the class app, you want it to look something like this. You can also go to app.cisa.me in your web browser on your second device. That will take you to this point as well. So here we go, are we ready? So we're gonna tap I'm a student, and then depending on where your app said, if you tap I'm a student, you might also have to tap, my goodness, sorry, my slides are just going a little crazier. You might also have to tap scan code because we just made an update today with that. So tap I'm a student, tap the scan code.  So go ahead and scan this class code. I'll pause here for a second so all of you can tap I'm a student and scan the class code. If you are using a Chromebook or another computer as your second device, you're gonna wanna type in this text code to make it a little bit easier at the bottom of the screen. So you can go ahead and tap and type that in. If you're watching the recording, guess what? This QR code is gonna work brilliantly for you so you can pause the recording and scan this QR code. The text code, however, will not work for you. It's only going to work for my friends that are live here for the next hour. So I'm pausing here to make sure everybody is getting signed into our class as a student because we wanna play. We wanna play and actually see how this works. So you should be getting into our class signed and I'm pausing just for a moment, giving everyone some time. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and then you're gonna tap the journal that matches the first letter of your first name. I have this class set up that you are one-to-one devices using a class code to sign in. So you'll need to tap the journal that matches the first letter of your first name because there's a lot of us here today. You're probably going to share a journal. And again, if you're watching the recording, you can go ahead and participate and play along too. Then are you ready? We're gonna do our first assessment. Here we go. So when you are signing in as a student, tap that green add button that you see. Then you're gonna tap the drawing tool and you are gonna draw the number two on the screen. Then you are gonna tap the mic right under that drawing and count by twos for me because I wanna do a quick counting assessment for everyone that is here. And then when you're done counting, just tap that green check and it's gonna be added to CESA. So I'm going to give you a chance to do that right now here live and you're gonna see how quick and easy this is for you to do. So give it a try right now as a student. I will give you some time to do that. If you don't have a second device today, no worries. Like we are just, you're gonna, we're participating, we're pausing for people to actually count by twos and record and try this out as a student. But don't worry if you don't have a second device, you can still learn a lot.  You don't have to post to the class. I don't wanna interrupt everyone's amazing counting abilities at this point, but we're gonna check in with our class in just a second and see how your counting has come along. So let's check it out.  Yay, I've got seven people that I've already done it. Amazing. Okay, oh good. Some more people are still counting and adding love it, love it, love it. So again, I am signed into this class right now as a teacher. Of course, Cisa is giving me some tips to explore other tools, but I see this huge red bar at the bottom that's telling me I have lots of things to approve, right? So look at all this amazing work coming in. So I'm seeing, they're doing, so I could play this. Right, there's my voice in the background, but I'm gonna go ahead and approve all of these right now. And you'll notice that was pretty painless, right? So pretty fast and easy. If you can imagine your students following those quick steps as well. So when my classroom, when I had five iPads with 24 kids, I would, in this specific example, when I was trying to kind of go through some assessments, I would have five kids come over at a time. I would say, okay, you're gonna show me how you can count by fives. We're gonna use the drawing tool.  And then I would say, okay, go find your recording spot. And in my classroom, I had five recording spots set up. And by recording spots, I basically mean a corner of the classroom. And I had a little recording spot poster. They would go off, bring the iPad back to me. And then I was getting, you know, five of these done at a time. I would have five more kids come up and we would just kind of continue on. Soon I was, all of my friends were done. And that's if I wanted to be kind of guiding them through that the first time. So just keep that in mind. So you can see how quick that was. I'm gonna go back into the slides and we're gonna explore a little bit more our friend activities, right? So if you have never used activities, you are going to love it for assisting with assessments too if you've never used it this way. So here's how activities work if you're not yet familiar. Teachers are able to share activities with students. Students respond using CSAS tools and then teachers approve those responses. As you just saw me do. So today, how, like, let's think about how activities help with some of the assessments that you're doing. So first of all, you can see all of the students' responses in one spot, which I love. You can also see who has not yet completed the activity, which means for you, you can say, oh, I've got to grab this little friend. We've got to do this quick check. And it's easy to differentiate who actually gets the specific activity. So if some students have mastered, if you're using it with the assessment lines, that's what we're talking about here today, you can easily see, oh, this little friend, I've got to do a recheck on letter identification. I'm going to have them do this activity. So you can differentiate. You can also tag skills and folders with them as well. So I'm going to show you how to do all of that. But we're actually going to give this a try. So go ahead right now and tap on the activities tab as a student. And when you do that, you are going to find this activity and respond. So you're going to find this lowercase letter identification activity. So you're going to, what's great about this, again, for our youngest learners, we have a lot of visuals here. So we have these little icons that show basically those little picture cues. And then they can also play the instructions as well. So I'm going to give you a moment to find that activity. I added this as a template, which we are going to talk about momentarily how we do that because that question has already come up. And they can respond, you can respond. So go ahead and give this a go right now. And again, if you don't have a second device, it's okay. We're just pausing for a minute here to give people a chance to give this a go. So I'm just going to pause and try to be quiet for a minute. We'll see if I can do that. Okay. I'm going to peek back. I don't think I made it a minute, but that's okay. We have so much to talk about. I feel like, oh, I got to keep going. So those of you that are here and are still playing, I love it. Just take your time, do what you can. But you'll see I'm back in the class and I have, here is my activity, right? As a teacher, I share that activity. I'm giving people, I keep refreshing to see how many more we have coming in. So I can tap on this review to review these posts. Look at this. Oh, great job. So again, lots of good stuff. Now what I want to show you is when I'm in this view right now, because this was associated with an activity, if I tap on this gray bar as a teacher, what's great is it's going to show me all of my student names. And of course, this is a training PD class. So like it would say your real kids name instead of ABCD. But you'd see all of your student names, right? So you can easily see all of their responses in one spot. Now this is a template activity, so you're not going to see much difference right here. But I think this view at this point lets you know, oh, I got to still check in with this friend or whatever. So that's really handy, right? To have all of that right at your fingertips. You also see who has responded, who hasn't responded. So I'm already, it looks like I've got 18 that haven't responded. Okay, so I'm just approving some more of these things. Great, all right. So you can see here I have nine responses to waiting approval 17 not responded. So again, just more info for me. I want to show you, well, I'm going to come back to this. So just hold that thought, Angela. I'm going to come back in a moment because question. So if you have questions at this point, I'm just kind of showing you a couple things to get your brain thinking a little bit about how this might work. So go ahead and type in questions, but I'm going to continue on because I want to talk a little bit about CESA plus. Now everything we've talked about is free CESA. But what I'm going to start talking about right now is CESA plus, which has added features that are amazing for assessment. So if you are interested in CESA plus, it's $120 per teacher per year. And it's really a way for you to try out some of the features included for CESA for schools as a single teacher. So that's one added benefit. Again, advanced tools for assessment, teachers notes, more classes, but I'm going to kind of quickly go through the main benefits here or features you get with CESA plus. And I'm going to talk about how that translates to doing some of these assessments. So private folders, first of all. So as a teacher, you get a private folder. So if you're doing assessments and you don't want the work to be viewable by parents or other students, it can go in a private folder and no one receives notifications about that, which is pretty handy. The other thing is you can take private teacher notes. So again, I back in the day, I would walk around with my posted notes on a clipboard and I would be trying to write down things that I was seeing students doing, but you can do that actually in CESA with a private note feature. And you're able to then kind of keep track of, okay, this is the next step I'm going to take with the student. You can record voice notes or even text, of course, typing, but they're only visible to teachers. So any co-teacher on the class, it's a great way to collaborate as well. They're not visible to parents or students. And then the third part of CESA plus, which is huge, is what's called skills view. So skills view, you are able to create skills or standards that you are really hoping to watch progress on with your students. Then when they are posting to CESA, you can say, oh my gosh, this is a great example of patterning or this is a great example of, you know, applying scientific vocabulary. So you can tag it with that skill and then it's able to show up in skills view. So what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to go back into our class and you don't know this, but as a teacher, I, when I added this activity, I actually tagged it with a skill. So under this post right now, there is this graduation cap that's blue and it has a one by it. That means there's one skill associated with it. So now when I am approving posts, I can listen to what the students saying. I can give them, you know, a rating of one star, two stars, three or four, meaning four stars is like, oh my gosh, completing total mastery. You can come up and decide whatever rubric works for you, but it's a one to four star scale. So for each of these little friends, I can go in and say, oh, you know, and again, don't take this harshly. I'm just kind of demoing here, right? The things that have come in. So I am going to approve all these. I'm in journal view. I've got more coming in. So again, I can go ahead. This one's already been rated. I'm going to refresh, but I want to kind of show you what it looks like in skills view. So now when I tap over here on skills view, because I only have one skill added, I have said letter sounds. I may, you know, you might be more eloquent and wordy and write, you know, a whole standard in there if you want. But this basically shows that, you know, little friend be here has one post that is associated with letter sounds. And right now they are this kind of light green. You can also see, I haven't really done anything else with these other friends, but if you tap on it, then you see all the posts associated with that have been tagged with that skill. So what's great is that, let me go back into the journal view, because then I can, we'll see if some more friends have responded to that activity. Because then what I can do, let me go into some other responses here. I'm going to, I'm going to show, I'm going to, I'm rating them quickly. Of course you would, you would spend more time than I am right now and be much more thoughtful and listen to, you know, every piece of what they're submitting to CISA. But I can go through, listen, I can give a rating right now. And I'm doing this just to kind of show you again, I've done that one, what it looks like. So you can imagine if you're doing this with multiple different skills in your classroom and with all of your students, you can also then sort and filter by skills or students. So what's great is I'm thinking, oh my gosh, I want to pull a small group together. Who needs to work on their letter sound?   So you can get a quick visual, but again, you can also look and see the content that has been tagged with that skill as well. So that's really, really handy. And I love that feature and I'm not giving it justice right now in terms of all of my talking about it. But you can also sort by student. So I could say Student A and then again, if you can imagine tons of skills added. So I'm going to go back to this slide because then you can visualize it a little bit more. So all of the skills here are on the top. And then all of the students are listed in all of their current, their last rating for that particular skill is what will show up in color on the chart. So all right, lots of things going on. I'm going to pause for a couple of questions here. Let me see. Yeah, so another thing. So Carlina is saying, can your administrator see this? So if you're using CSOP or schools, your administrator actually has a dashboard that they can see into every CSOP class and they can look at all the progress as well, which is great. Okay, Adriana is wondering, can you assign to just a couple of students instead of a whole group? Yes. So let me show you that. So again, if you have questions related to skills, new CSOP plus features, let me know what I'm going to pop in to our class again and just show you a couple of things. So as a teacher, I'm going to go back to the journal and I'm going to go to the green add button because I'm going to browse the activity library. So this will take you into all the activities available. And I have to say, if you're looking for assessments, you can say number identification or whatever you're looking for. I guarantee there's probably already something here for you. So this is coin identification. So Kristen McCabe has created this activity and shared it. So if you're like, awesome, I want my students to do this. I can tap this heart and I can share it immediately to you, my students in this class. Now this is the, I have lots of classes and probably don't have as many as me, but this is assessments for Pre-K2 and I want to show you right here. I can go to edit students. So right now I could say, oh, yes, you know what? I only need, you know, Billy and Casey and Deandre to do this activity. So I'm going to just tag those students. The other thing I want to show you here is up here on folders, you can actually also, if you have CESA Plus at this point, tag the private teacher only folder or you can create other folders like math. So you can filter their work that way as well. Now I'm going to go ahead and tap this and then share with those students. So one of the questions that came up was if I'm using shared devices, how do only certain students get the work? Now I'm going to talk about that because this is something I highly recommend. In your CESA class, in your setting, so in the upper right in your wrench icon, you can go down and it says here student sign in mode. This class that we are participating in today is set up as a class code class. So you remember scanning that class QR code, right? But it's set to one to one devices. Now what that means is your students scan the code and immediately after they get in, they basically choose their name from that class list. What that does is it tells the device who's holding it at the time. So what I'm saying is even if you are not one to one devices, I recommend you go into this mode and switch your class to class code one to one devices even if you're shared devices because you can take advantage of this differentiated feature in terms of sharing activities to certain students. So the reason that is is because if you are in class code shared devices and you are sharing activity and you only tag five students, when it's shared, the device doesn't know who's holding it at the time in a shared class. So it's got to show that activity to everybody because it doesn't know who's holding it at the time. So again, I would recommend if I were in my kindergarten classroom still and I had five iPads, I would go into this sign in mode even if I don't have one to one devices, which I didn't because I want to take advantage of that differentiation piece. Okay. Now you might be saying, oh my gosh, Angela, I don't know. I have my students signing in with the class code and the shared devices. What do I do? So the only difference is when your students are done with the device, they're going to have to sign out as themselves, which means for a student, they will have to tap up here in the profile icon and then there's a big red button that says sign out. So your students would, instead of just putting the device back and it's ready for whoever, they would just have to tap their name and sign out. It's not as complicated as the teacher. We have multiple steps to sign out. But for a student, they tap their profile icon, sign out, and then it's ready for the next student. So then next student could tap on the student, scan the class QR code, choose their name and they're in. So hopefully that makes sense. And we don't have individual student QR codes. It's just a class QR code, if that makes sense. All right. Roxanne is wondering, can you print each student's skill list completed? Let's see. So there isn't an easy print feature at this point in terms of printing their skills you. You can screenshot it. Would be the best go around right now. If you do have Seesaw for schools, there is some bulk downloading options of current skills view status. But that's with Seesaw for schools. Adriana wonders, can you use an activity from the library and make a copy edit to fit your needs? Yes. And thanks for asking that because I'm going to show you right now. So I'm going to go to create or share activity because remember that one I just saved from Kristen McCabe. Thank you, Kristen. Love it. But I'm going to tap on it. But I want to change something.  So I'm going to tap on this. And I am going to go to copy and edit activity. So then basically I can change anything I want about this. So the name, I can add my own voice recording, talking about this. I can change the directions. I could write the directions in Spanish, whatever I want to do. I can also, under more options here, I can add some teacher notes. And if I have Seesaw Plus or Seesaw for schools, I can tag a skill with this. So I can add more skills. I can tag the skills. So this is going to be coin ID. I'm going to say the subject is math. Quick code is related to, you know, like common core state standards. So, you know, if they have those good codes, right? You could type the code in here. So then that makes it easier for you to search as well. If you're like, how do they do on this standard if you're using it for that? You can add those skills and be all right. And be all ready to go so that when you share it with your students, they will have that. And I'm going to save it. So now when I save it, you'll notice it turned into Mrs. Seesaw, right? So this is then my version of this activity. So that's how you edit and change that. I want to pause for a minute because I also want to respect everybody's time. Don't worry. I'm not just going to jump right out of here. But I do want to let you know that we're about at the scheduled time to end. But I'm going to hang around here and answer your questions because I don't want to leave you hanging. But please know we love, love, love.  It helps us do better at PD. It helps us know what you want to learn next and what we can put on our schedule for next month. So make sure you fill out that survey if you are buzzing out here in a minute. So I'll hang around for a little bit longer and go through a few more questions.


Hi everyone, I'm Katie Grini. I'm an event manager for CNCF. I plan a my raid of events, including KubeCon. And I also support the Kubernetes Community Days program, also known as KCDs. And I'm Bill Mulligan. I used to work at CNCF, and I help restart the KCD program. I've been involved in a couple of ones as a community member, and now I'm over at Isovalent working on the Cilium and EBPF communities. Great. And today, we're presenting about Kubernetes Community Days for fun and for community profit. So with that, you might be wondering, what exactly is the Kubernetes Community Day program? Well, if you're here at KubeCon, you kind of already know what a Kubernetes and Cloud Native conference. You can think of a KCD as a scaled down way of doing a KubeCon for your local community. It's a great way. I'm sure all of you have met some great friends here, amazing connections, other people you want to follow up with after the conference. KCDs are a great way to connect with other people and have these same conversations in your local region. I know for me, it was about a 14 hour flight to get here. What if you could instead take a 14 minute walk down the street to go and have these same conversations? That's what the KCD program is all about, is it's bringing Cloud Native to your local community to learn, to collaborate, to network, and advance the Cloud Native community as a whole. We've had KCDs all over the world, as you can see by the logos at the bottom. And it's been an amazing experience to work with all of the great people behind it. So beyond just that, they're a lot of fun. These are a lot of pictures from the KCD program that happened in Berlin this summer. It was actually our first KCD program. A lot of them were happening virtually because of the pandemic. But it was really exciting to see all these Cloud Native technologists joining in one place in person to talk about Kubernetes, to share a drink, and to even go boating. So this could be you. I think that's a great point that you brought up, Bill. They're built up. A lot of people are starting to happen in person. But they can happen online and virtually as a hybrid program as well. It's a way to bring education and information to your local community. And it doesn't always have to be directly in person to be impactful. So as I was saying, and as we saw in the logos, KCDs are happening all around the world. This map is a couple of where they've happened in 2022. But we're seeing them pop up in lots of different places around the globe. These represent KCDs that are happening in the latter half of the year and into 2023. Yeah, and so your next question may be, OK, this sounds like something that's cool. Who can who's organizing them and who's doing it? So when you don't have Katie here to do all the tech support for own talk, who's actually putting it together? Well, it's people in the Cloud Native community. It's people like CNCF ambassadors, it's CNCF community evangelists, it's members of its people at member companies. It's the people who are organizing the Cloud Native meetups in your local organization. And it might even be you. For me, for instance, I've been involved in the program committee for both KCD Berlin and also for KCD Munich. And I'm looking forward to helping out with KCD Zurich next year. So you could be the person helping make a KCD possible in your own local community. Now the question is, why would you want to organize one? What's the benefits of this for you? Why would you want to get involved? As we were talking about before, for me, it's really about the people. I think I really love connecting with people in the Cloud Native community. And that's what KCDs bring to the community. So it's a way to collect people from around you to share ideas and talk about them. And it's a great thing is the next time you see those people, it doesn't have to be six months later at the next KubeCon, you can have lunch with them the next week. It's the people who you're going to see on a day-to-day or week-to-week basis that are going to be in your local area. I think that's a great network to build.  You can have a half day, a full day, two days, and be able to share that information with your community.  And it's a great way to expand it beyond just one or two talks a month. As I said before, you can meet lots of friends and business partners in the cloud-native space. For me, for instance, I have gone around to a bunch of KCDs and been able to connect with a lot of people that I like hanging out with. And I know a lot of new business partnerships have come out of the cloud, out of the KCDs that you need to. For instance, I know one person that's here because they're organizing a KCD, one of the sponsors actually paid for them to come to KubeCon. So that could be you too. And lastly, it's also about, I think, really growing the grassroots of the cloud-native community too. So as you probably know, KubeCon has a very low acceptance rate. I think it's below 10%. It's not a space where everybody can present because there's just not space or time to be able to do that. KCDs are a great way to expand the reach, to let new speakers take the stage, get practice, and be able to hopefully one day present at KubeCon too. I'm a new KubeCon speaker, so that's exactly what KCDs do. It also does professional growth. You can learn how to plan and organize events. There's a lot, it also allows you to grow your community and bring talks that might be engaging for your community or places for people to learn how to continue to grow. There might be novice and beginners in your community. There might be experts or intermediates, and it's a great place for them to kind of get together and learn from each other and grow and expand. You'll also learn how to separate new technologies and trends within cloud-native. A lot of people are doing really cool things in the cloud-native industry. So it's a cool place to kind of have that like filtered grassroots conversations around the technology and what people are doing. You can also use it to sustain the cloud-native community and network with local adopters of technologies. So it's a time to kind of bring together people who have been in the community for a long time. Maybe there's a few people within the community ready to join. It's a great way to connect them. It's a great place for us to bring together the meet-up group that's about the technology. So getting started, you don't have to know all the information when you wanna get started, but to get started having some initial details, going to the CNCF Kubernetes Days GitHub is a great place to go. You can see all the other issues that are currently open with KCDs who are currently in the process of planning. It's a great place for you to determine if you can host a KCD in your area or join a local KCD that's already started. Just initially wanting much information that's on the slide ready, or you can have as little as I can reach out and we're here to help and make this process seamless. There are terms and conditions to having a KCD. It's just to make sure that you have a successful event that you're abiding by the CNCF standards. We wanna make sure that we're setting you up for, I mean lack of better words, success, right? We want this to be something that continues not just once, we want it to be something that you host annually. We want to make sure that your community grows. We wanna make sure that as you're growing your community you're thinking about meet-ups and that those meet-ups are happening maybe monthly, maybe quarterly, maybe by annually, whatever works best for your community but we're here to support that and this terms and conditions help us ensure that we're giving you that proper support and that you feel confident and comfortable in what you're doing. In addition to all of that, we've also made this process a little bit simpler. I know event planning is super daunting. I've been in it for 15 plus years now and I still get butterflies and nervous and I have moments in the middle of the night where I wake up so it's okay to feel that pressure. We've tried to make it as easy as we can by creating templates around how to organize your event, have checklist on when you should be, like what you should be doing three months out, two weeks out, a week out from your event. We have templates around sponsorships and registration templates and if you see something that's missing, let us know, Audra and I are happy to make that template for you. So a few new features that happened this year. I talked a little bit about the templates for getting started, how to have sponsorships, registration, questions, AV setup. We've also recognized that a video on how to use our programs like SM Apply and Bevy were needed, so we've created those as well, kind of step by step processes of issues that you might run into when you're utilizing those. We've also organized an organizer's meetup. It's a great place for us to share topics related to the planning process and to have peer to peer learning. The best thing is to know that you're not alone in this process. There are a lot of other organizers out there who are either coming up against the same issues or thinking through fun ways to bring their community together and it's a great place to learn from each other. And then we also learned that within Bevy, you're able to pull your own analytics now, which is really huge. You weren't able to do that before you would have to go through Audra and I. Additionally, we've implemented credly badges. We've gone ahead and given those to people who participated in 2021 and we're issuing them for 2022. For 2023, we're super excited to send out quarterly surveys with our organizers. This data and getting your feedback helps us to ensure the growth of the program. We're also looking at how to implement training at KCDs in the future for 2023. So having a day of content or maybe half a day of content with a half a day of training or a day of training is something that CNCF would really like to support and provide all of the organizers and all of you who are in this room because I think after this you're going to go out and have a KCD. So we'd like to support that. We're also going to relaunch the speaker bureau and a program called CNCF first. This is just to help when you're either struggling to get CFP submissions, if you're struggling with getting a diverse CFP submissions, this is a great place where people are going to indicate that they want to speak at your event. Maybe there's someone who's going to talk about a specific technology to help round out your program. And then lastly, we will be issuing a annual transparency report around KCDs and that growth and success that happens with it. So with that, some of the lessons learned of organizing 10 of the KCDs all around the globe and what will help set you up for success. So the first one, start small. I know you may be super excited about bringing the community together and say you want to plan the next QCon, but that takes a whole team, more than a whole team. It's good to even have just 100 people. I know a couple of KCDs that started with just that and they're growing each year. You don't need to have the biggest event to begin with and sustainability of your event is more important than that because it's these relationships that come back year after year is what is really going to help grow the community. So the first thing that you should do is to go to that people, see if there's a local meetup. You don't need to do something big. You don't need to do something big. We've had really successful KCD programs that are even just a half day or one full day in a single track. You can even have just like five or six sessions as a way to expand that. The second part, definitely think about diversity from the beginning. I think that's the core tenant of the cognitive community and you should make sure you think about it before you even begin. Reach out to your community early. Make sure that you have a diverse set of companies organizing it, a diverse set of people looking at the CFP people reaching out and promoting about the CFP. It's also good to reach out to local clubs. Maybe there's an AWS cloud meetup in your area or different organizations like say like Girls Who Code who might be interested in speaking at KCD. Also, it's great to have a connection to the universities in your area. Students are always looking to, I guess, kind of get their first experience in their job outside of the university and the academic setting. This is a great transition of getting people into the cloud native industry too. And you should really reach out to them to tell them about your event and help them grow. And the great thing is they can help you grow the event too. Their reach can become your reach too. You should also reach out at any point to the CNCF ambassadors. They're people who are very energetic and engaged about the cloud native community. I'm sure they'll be very happy to help you. And also you have a great team on the CNCF with Katie and Audra. And I'm sure they'd be happy to help with anything that you want. Running events, while each of them, it's kind of like, is unhappy in their own way. There are a lot of similarities between events. So you can leverage the templates. There's a lot of things that you need to do in terms of promoting it, in terms of how to do the CFP. Obviously there's minor details that'll be different and you'll have to work out those by yourself. But the templates are a great place to start. You can leverage years, even decades of experience of running events before. And also consider tying your KCD to another local event. So we've had great partnerships with things like OpenStack Days. There's one in KCD LA's pairing with Scale. And there's also one in KCD Mania that was co-located with... DevSlam out there. Yeah, DevSlam. And then in Taiwan they co-located with CCOCS. Yeah, it's like an open source event there. So it's a great way to connect your community to a larger audience too. So building your team. It's a great idea from the start to kind of have regular check-ins with both your team and CNCF. We're here to help you. We're here to support you. We're here to work through any challenges you have. Chances are whatever challenges you have, another KCD has had it before or we've even had it within our own events and we can help kind of guide you through that process. Create a call cadence with your team and review the checklist that you have. Identify who's working on what. But also realize that there's flexibility in roles. So you may be working on, say, the CFR promotion and someone else is working on registration but the person who's working on promotion needs help. You can jump over and help them. There's not a simple I'm in this one role.  You're all here to learn from each other. So just remember that you're working towards a shared goal and you're here to be one team. And then confirm a check-in cadence with the CNCF. Both Audra and I are active on Slack. Using the GitHub issue is a great way for us to track communication back and forth outside of email. It just allows us to see if Audra's out of office what kind of conversation she's had or I can jump in and answer it as well. We all know disagreements happen. They happen in everyday life. They're gonna happen at work as well. We all have visions of what we want the program to look like. There's no wrong or right way around that. But we're here to help and we're happy to help. The CNCF is here to be a neutral voice. So if you are having disagreements and you just can't seem to find a common ground, definitely reach out. We're here to help kind of neutralize that and find a compromise. And just remember we're all working towards the same goal. So no one has one right approach to getting there and that's kind of the beauty of these programs. And don't do it alone. Reach out to your community. They're here to help guide you in what they want to learn and how they want the program to learn. Is that they did half a day of content and then a bunch of networking at the end. You could do a lot of content heavy programs or you can specify specific topics. They like that what they like to learn more about for the next one. Yeah and another question is once your event is in progress or done, how do you consider was it successful or not? I think the big thing that we've been trying to say here is that there's no right way, there's no wrong way, there's no cookie cutter way to do a KCD. Every single community around the globe has different needs, has different ones, have different things that they're focusing on. So there's not one perfect way to do a KCD. What you should like focus on as a way to make sure that the cloud native community continues to grow and I think what would be a success for the program as a whole and for your event is one, making sure that you elevate people who wouldn't otherwise to get the opportunity to speak. This is about helping grow the cloud native community at the grassroots level, make sure that you help people do that. The second one is educating the meeting and meet the needs of your local community. So what Katie was saying, reach out to your local community, figure out what they want, make sure that you're focusing on that. That'll make your program successful for your local community. And the last one is really just empower your community by planning different types and size of events by depending on the region. Just as the same way it wouldn't make sense to do a KCD with only French speakers in Indonesia, there's lots of other details like that that aren't as obvious. You should focus on the needs and the wants of your community and different types of events as I was saying are all gonna have different types of challenges. A virtual event is gonna have different than an in-person event, a two-track event is gonna have different challenges than a one-track event. So you are gonna need to tackle each of those challenges but the CNCF team is here to support you too. And some of the program successes that we had. So when I was still at CNCF, we launched the program back in 2021. I think it was really cool. It was the first year I had absolutely no idea what was gonna happen or if anybody was gonna show up and I think the community really turned up much to my surprise and delight. So we had 12 KCDs that were in-person, virtual, and hybrid in multiple different languages. We had over 7,500 people. A lot of them knew to the cloud native community and connecting them into what we're doing here at KubeCon and in 12 different countries. I think the coolest thing for me was that right KubeCon is three times a year, it's in very small cities or it's in very large cities but only a small fraction of the population. You saw Priyanka's keynote, there's seven million people and we only have about 7,000 here. That's a fraction of the percentage of people that are in cloud native. KCDs have allowed us to take the cloud native community instead of bringing the cloud native community, we're able to bring the cloud native community to the world and it was really cool to see the program launch to that. Beyond that, we also have a bunch of successes and what we're talking about, like growing the cloud native community. And so this is actually a talk from the last KubeCon. This person went to KCD Banglaru and he got inspired at the contributor summit there. He started contributing to Kubernetes and actually became a maintainer of one part of the Kubernetes project. So getting new contributors was also talked about in the keynote, into the projects, getting them to become maintainers of the projects so that we do have more people maintaining the projects that we all rely on and he even spoke at KubeCon too. So I think it's great to see people really progress in that track from the first speaking opportunity, sorry, from the first contribution to becoming a maintainer to the first speaking opportunity, it's really amazing to see the KCD program lifting people up like that. And this is what you could bring to people in your local community too. And it's been some great successes as the beginning of October. In-person, virtual, and high presentations in multiple languages, like Phil said, that's huge, especially for your local KCD. 450 plus, over 8,700 attendees across 15 countries and we're yielding a 20, we're actually at 21% of non-male speakers after Munich and Nina. Overall program successes, just over the last few years, these are the kind of highlights that we have hosted 63 events, 16,000 plus attendees, 501 KCD chapter members, averaging, and 24 chapters in general. So what will your community gain? This is a big one. You're gonna gain new friends, new colleagues. You're gonna have a local support system. When you're stuck on a problem, it's great to be able to have that new connection that you can reach out to. And then it's like Bill said, a connection to the larger cloud native community. There has been talks about some KCDs providing surplus in their budgets to promote a local community member come to larger KCDs, or to the larger coupon. So those kind of things help the growth of the ecosystem overall and show that importance around it. Not everything has to be code related, but knowing that we all have that open mindset and many minds are better than one helps to grow the community. I feel like they keep saying that, it helps ultimately. And then it just has acceleration, growth around projects. As Bill said, one person started to contribute to Kubernetes and become a maintainer that can happen within your own community as well. It helps you to connect to other communities where we have a KCD organizers channel where you're talking to other organizers across the globe. So it has a way to connect and learn from each other. And it helps to build an internship or contribution within a business. Obviously I'm hopeful that everyone in this room will walk out here and want to become a KCD organizer. It's a lot of fun. Feel free to ask us to all, or to Audra and I can Slack. Check out the GitHub, check out the website. We're here to help. Don't be scared. Half the battle is just started. So just join and reach out and we're happy to answer anything. Yeah, and I'm also happy to answer. I'm not involved in any of the organization anymore, but I have seen a few of them. So if you have any questions, I'm also happy to help too. With that, I think thank you for coming today. Yeah. Yeah, for that, the recommendation is to have at least three people from three different companies. So you're hearing voices from many different people. It can grow. I think KCD UK is here. You all have how many people? Nine people, that's what I thought. So there's no set number. Three is a great starting point. But if you have nine or 12 or seven or five, that's great too. Okay, okay. Yeah. So it's all from local sponsors. Yeah. We do provide you access to platforms, which is a big contributing factor in your cost. So we offer you access to like SM Apply or Bevy. You are not like, it's not a hard line in the sand that you have to use those programs, but we do have those programs available for you. Yeah. Yeah. You have to be an organizer and actively contributing to the KCD. You can't just kind of join a KCD and not contribute. Your fellow organizers will let us know. So that's a short answer to it. If you're interested on more information about it and those kind of check marks, you can send me a message and I'd be happy to share it with you. Ambassador, and then you're not all from one organization either, so there's no biases. You're coming together as a community. I believe you had a question first. Are there any guidelines for sponsors, restrictions? I mean, do we need to have the proper sponsors approved or vetted? No, so there's not any rules about... The only rule is that you can't say a company can't sponsor. This is like a community event and you can't say, that's our competitor. They can't be a part of this. It's open to anyone, just like the cloud native community. So you need to be open to anybody sponsoring. But to clarify on that too, you don't have to have a successful KCD.  But if you weren't able to get a sponsor for your event, KCD Spain did this recently and they just went fully virtual on the Bevy platform. Yeah. So like I said, there are profits that come from the event that is kind of settled between each KCD and how they wanna handle that. A lot of KCDs end up donating it in the name of the KCD to a local organization. I know KCD DC donated it to Red Cross. I believe all of you are donating any surplus you have. A few people have talked about taking that money and putting it into like a diversity scholarship to promote someone to come to KubeCon within their local area. So it's kind of up to you how you handle that, but donating it within the name of your KCD is always great idea. Yeah. But with that process, a specific company has to hold onto it. And that's kind of where it gets a little complicated and we can talk through that process and how to work through that as well. So we're gonna cut off here and kicked off the stage, but if you want to talk to us, we'll be just outside the doors and we're happy to answer any other questions. So yeah, thanks. Thanks everyone.


Welcome back! In this lesson we're going to go over a covered put. So in a previous lesson we talked about a covered call where you're buying the underlying stock and you're selling a call against that position. This is kind of the reverse. This is the exact opposite of this where we're actually selling stock short and then we're selling a put against that short stock. So this is a bearish strategy. We want implied volatility to be to be fairly high. Optimal timeframe in that 30 to 60 days to expiration. Similar profit target kind of at 25 to 50% of max profit. Our downside risk is none because we profit when the stock goes down. Our upside risk is undefined because the stock theoretically could keep going up and up and up forever, right? Never really happens that way but theoretically. And then the probability of profit is is usually over 55%. So the trade setup is we're simply going to sell short 100 shares of stock and then we're going to sell 130 delta put against that. Time decay in this type of trade works in our favor so it's a positive theta trade. Let's go to the platform take a look at an example. So looking at IWM as our example, again, if this is something that you'd be bearish on, this would be a candidate for a covered put because it's got implied volatility over 50. IV percentile is 56 in this case. So we'd simply go to the trade tab, go over to the put side and remember we want around that 30 delta if it's kind of in between. I like to opt for the higher one so I'd go with the 31 delta. Then we'd simply right click and you sell covered stock. Remember when we bought it we did buy covered stock on the call side. In this case we're selling the put. We're selling the stock so we're going to sell it. So it populates down here so we're selling 100 shares of IWM and we're selling one put at the 130 strike. So we simply right click, analyze that trade and pops up here. So we've got an expiration of 520 and so that's the same one as our expiration here. So that's lined up. We've got our dash mark moved to the break even point so you can see we have a probability of profit between now and expiration of just under 60%. So a little over 55% is what you're typically going to get on this type of a trade. So just like a covered stock kind of works the same way except for opposite. You've got the undefined risk to the upside. Your risk is capped to the downside and that's what helps give you that higher probability. Remember if we were just going to sell this stock short let's analyze that and take a look. We unclick that. Remember this is just a 50-50 bet. If we move our break even there 48-51 about a 50-50 bet and so that's why you would look to potentially do this because yes you're capping your upside potential. However you are increasing your probability of success and over time you're going to be more successful with that higher probability than just simply buying or selling stock outright. So I hope that was helpful. We'll see you in the next lesson.


Welcome to Tovi TV's The Everton News Daily. Cam Sports or with Peter Kenyon's USA Consulting have released a statement regarding their proposed takeover of Everton Football Club. They have said, as a general principle, we prefer to conduct our business in private to create the first environment for those involved, and this is in this particular situation to minimise uncertainty for fans of Everton. It is regrettable that this has not been possible. We respectfully remain interested in acquiring the club as we believe its fans deserve nothing less than the best. Our offer is to achieve this stance. However, in consideration of all the Everton fans, we will not be making further public comments at this time. Yeah, I don't know if anyone's noticed, but there was a lot of social media noise around this potential takeover. Not really usual, and it's obviously they've said themselves it's not something that would usually happen. So that's what they had to say. In talks about the takeover news, far from this year, we could possibly be willing to sell 30% off his stake at Everton to fund the development of the new stadium. He could be willing to see the new current board remain with a potential new addition of a new investor, so someone who would represent whoever the investors are. Whether that's got anything to do with Cam Sports, I don't know, but I'll have to wait and see. There's also some interesting news regarding the takeover. Everton have released their latest fixture changes for August and September. So we've got Aston Villa, this Saturday 12.30pm kickoff, I think it was originally meant to be 3pm. That's on the 13th of August at Villa Park. Leeds away at Ellen Roe that's on a Tuesday night at 8pm, it was originally on a Tuesday night at 7.45pm, so that's been delayed by 15 minutes. That takes place on the 30th of August. The Derby, Goodison Park Saturday 12.30pm, 30 September, that's been moved back a few hours to 12.30pm. Not sure, some people prefer early kickoffs because it gets the game out the way nice and early. Some people prefer lying on a Saturday, so I suppose whatever suits you is your opinion on it. Arsenal is now a Sunday at 2pm, 11 September, I think it's been pushed back a day. Let me know if you're happy with them or if you're disappointed by them. Some people might have work commitments or some people might just work out perfect for them. I suppose that's each of their own. But there you go, that's all the news for today. Let me know what you think on the takeover news in the comments as well and make sure you subscribe and like this video. If you want more videos, then join us on Softly TV Premier where we do exclusive live daily shows as well. Thanks for watching, see you later.


When you look at the offenses tonight, particularly frustrating, considering it seemed like there was a lot of solid contact and not a lot to show for it. Yeah, especially the first round, the first turn through the lineup. I thought we had a lot of good swings, a lot of good approaches and nothing to show for it. But after that, we're a little in and out, a little inconsistent and had a good opportunity there. Obviously, the ball kind of right back to the catcher and kind of yanks the throw into a short hop into the tag. So it still felt like we could have been a little bit better after that first turn where it didn't really bounce our way. But definitely a frustrating loss and one that we got to get past here and then now get ready for Detroit. You mentioned that opportunity in the fifth inning. Are you OK with Gleber taking a chance there with Stanton at the plate? Yeah, I mean, the ball's to the backstop. And it just kind of bounces perfect. And actually, the throw by the catcher, I didn't think, was even he kind of pulls the throw, which kind of just falls right into a short hop where he's diving. So yeah, you don't want to take chances in that situation. But I think that's one of those kind of a fluky bounce there that didn't go the right way. When you say after the first time through, the offense was a little bit in and out. What was it about the approach that you weren't necessarily thrilled with? I thought Lopez did a good job, first of all, mixing it up. Early on, he didn't have his great fastball as clear. And we hit some shots off him. But then I thought he actually did a good job with his change up with his breaking ball of really changing speeds. And I thought we just had a hard time just really getting locked in on him and stringing together a bunch of consistent at bats, which we needed to get back into that game. You know, Cleaver stayed in the game. Is he OK after a play of second? He got spiked on the thumb there a little bit, so more just a cut. But yeah, I think he's fine. Well, how are we up front? Is Greg Bird starting to hear the booze, so to speak, and let it get into his psyche a little bit? I mean, that's more of a question for him. I think he's battling. He's grinding. I think he does a good job of dealing with outside stuff. So I'm not worried about that with him. I just want him to get into a good groove, into a good place in that box. Because when he's right, he's really important to us and really can be an impactful player for us. So I know he's grinding away behind the scenes to find that. Some better at bats the last couple of days. But still searching for that good groove. The back, right. Stan's been struggling under 200, I believe, since August 18th, his last home run. What do you see at the plate that he's doing at the plate that tributes to his slump? Well, two bullets tonight. I don't think he's far off, maybe expanding a little more than he was when he was really locked in. Has hit into a little bit of tough luck. But I kind of feel like he's close. Just missed a couple of balls that he hooked foul today. So maybe timing not perfect right now. But then again, really squared up two balls pretty sharply today. And I feel like he's missed some pitches that over the last couple of months he's been smoking. And that can happen over the course of the season. There was a game in Baltimore where I felt like he got some pitches to hit and just didn't put them in play with authority. But I attribute it more to kind of the ebb and flow of the season and hitting. Fred, to the right. Aaron, just CC second game back in the deal. What did you see from tonight's sixth inning? Yeah, I thought he was really sharp in the first inning. Really, one of his better first innings, I thought he was really crisp, attacked the zone, had a quick inning. And then in that second inning, especially a couple of hitters, I think maybe with two strikes, you could see their approach was really to try and get something out over the plate and work it the other way. I thought they did a good job of that. Maybe didn't get his cutter in on a couple of pitches. And then Lamar has been even early in the year, I feel like, when he was with Minnesota, he's just, unfortunately for us, I feel like he's had a lot of really good at bats against us and he turned out to be the difference tonight with a couple of big swings. Wally, Aaron, how disheartening is it to lose two out of three to the team that's playing well now but hasn't played well most of the season at a point in the season where you need to win as many as you can?  So it's disheartening whoever it is against. I don't get caught up in the opponent and, you know, we got to win this many against this team. It's today, man, and we're going out and we're laying it on the line. And that's the expectation. And I feel like we do a really good job of that. And, you know, in this game in Major League Baseball 162, you know, the bottom line is you're going to have some bumps where you lose to a team that maybe you don't think we should lose to. And that's always frustrating.  I mean, there's nothing better than shaking hands at the end of the day. That's what we pour everything into. But as far as who it's against, man, I don't really care. It's let's get after it. And we got to get after the Tigers coming in tomorrow, period. Dave, to the left. Just like you said with Stan, I mean, with all the firepower that you're missing right now and then to have him kind of a funk at the same time, is that that's kind of a lot of offense to try to get for a team? I mean, that's part of it, though.  So that's just the that's Major League Baseball. That's 162 games. That's the ebb and flow of it. That's part of it. And that's why that's why your team. That's why, you know, other guys need to pick up the slack. Other guys need to produce. That's what makes you a well-rounded quality team. And we've done a really good job of that. So we're not, even when we have guys down, you know, we're not, we're still not reliant on one guy or two guys. You know, we still count on contributions and have gotten contributions still from a number of people. Anyone else? Thank you, Mark.