Carly Shuler

Carly Shuler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hoot Reading, where she is passionate about leveraging the power of technology to change children’s lives through literacy. Hoot Reading is a leading online tutoring service, partnering with school districts across North America to provide 1:1, evidence-based literacy instruction with qualified teachers, at scale. Hoot's research-backed approach to live online high-dosage tutoring originated from a research project at Sesame Workshop (the creators of Sesame Street) and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. Our model is designed to make 1:1, evidence-based literacy instruction accessible to all children. Carly has been working at the intersection of children’s technology and education for over two decades. She holds a Master’s degree in Technology, Innovation, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she studied how media and technology can be used to educate children effectively. She has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Sesame Workshop, Spin Master Toys, and UNESCO. Carly spent over five years at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, where she researched and authored several seminal reports focused on the power of digital media and mobile devices to help children learn. Carly speaks worldwide on the topics of early literacy and children’s learning through technology.