{"id":30198,"date":"2018-05-09T14:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/creator\/?p=30198"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:28:40","slug":"literator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/literator","title":{"rendered":"Through her app, one teacher reaches thousands of students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xiaohoa Micheelle Ching remembers going to a lot of different schools when she was growing up.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy family came as refugees from Laos,\u201d says Ching. \u201cWe ended up in the Midwest where I went to some really great schools, and I went to some schools that could only be characterized as places of neglect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a young age, Ching saw \u201cinequity in education was something that had real, deep impacts to entire communities. I decided that I had some agency and could do something about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She joined Teach for America after graduating from the University of Wisconsin and went on to become a second-grade teacher in Oakland three years ago. There her frustrations deepened in under-resourced classrooms, knowing that there were so many resources available in nearby Silicon Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a Startup Weekend event in San Francisco she designed a product she felt her students needed most: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.go.literatorapp.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Literator<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a mobile app that builds reading skills and allows teachers to capture and analyze data about their students\u2019 performance. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-30205\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/05\/Xiaohoa-Michelle-Ching-of-Literator-2-571x573.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30205\"\/><figcaption>\u201cThere\u2019s so much potential that\u2019s wasted in every single classroom,\u201d says Xiaohoa Michelle Ching. &#8220;The system has a lot of big gaping holes, and there\u2019s a lot of work that needs to be done.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Ching, it \u201cguides instruction in the moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After spending so long in the classroom, Ching left teaching and dove into life as a full-time startup CEO. 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