William Zhou is cofounder and CEO of Chalk.com. Before the age of 23, Zhou had started and sold a business, and created an education software company—Chalk.com. Chalk.com is a “Microsoft Office for teachers.” Once when Zhou went to visit some of his old high school teachers, he learned of the struggles that the teachers deal with each day– having to organize lesson plans, deal with attendance, and grade papers, tests, and homework, not to mention deal with their superiors and parents of the students. Therefore, Zhou promised to help them out with this issue. Chalk.com is a source that allows teachers to store all of their work. They can organize lesson plans, tests, quizzes, homework, attendance, etc. Today, Chalk.com is used in over 20,000 schools. It helps both teachers and students handle the stress of school.
I am sure teaching and having all that stuff to grade can be very stressful, he did a great job of seeing a problem and finding a solution.
Seems like a great idea. He saw a problem and created something from it. Some Grove City professors could definitely use something like this.
This is a great idea. I would love if my professors used this. It would be so helpful to find things, and would alleviate the stress of having to catch up with a ton of work after you miss a day of class.
I think this is a great idea! I have many friends who are student teaching this semester and I am sure they would love something like this. As students we may not realize how hard our professors work to get everything done and taken care. It is cool to have a place where they can keep it all together.
This is such a great idea! It helps some of the most important and undervalued people in our society. I had not heard of this before, but it makes me happy to know that someone has made this to help teachers. Thanks for sharing!
This is honestly such an awesome idea and I would love to have something similar to this in classrooms at Grove City! Great post Lydia!