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Motivate Students
Inspire reading with fun challenges, community goals, built-in gamification, and recognition.
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Support Educators
Give teachers simple ways to join challenges, encourage students, and view progress.
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Engage Families
Share progress and invite families to celebrate reading milestones.
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Unite Schools
Rally classrooms and campuses around shared reading goals.
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Show Your Impact
Give administrators a clear view of participation and program reach.
Bring Your Reading Vision to Life
From daily reading routines to districtwide programs, Beanstack gives you one place to launch initiatives, build excitement, and track results.
Launch themed challenges in minutes and rally classrooms, schools, or entire districts around shared reading goals.
Let students log books, minutes, or pages with tools that fit naturally into the school day.
Make progress visible, and worth celebrating, with personalized goals, badges, streaks, leaderboards, and schoolwide recognition.
Manage seasonal programs, Battle of the Books, and other literacy initiatives without relying on paper logs or disconnected spreadsheets.
See who is participating, compare engagement across schools or grade levels, and share the results of library-led programs with administrators and other stakeholders.
A Fresh Alternative to Accelerated Reader
Beanstack motivates students without turning every book into a quiz. Unlike Accelerated Reader, Beanstack emphasizes consistent reading, student interests, and positive recognition—helping librarians build lasting habits, support readers at every level, and bring schools together around shared goals.
Rally Your Community Around Reading
Beanstack helps librarians make reading a shared effort—motivating students, engaging educators, connecting families to progress, and giving administrators clear evidence of impact.
Know Your Readers and What Motivates Them
The Reading Motivation Index reveals what motivates your students to read. Use these insights to focus resources and support, collaborate with teachers, strengthen reading initiatives, and demonstrate how library-led efforts advance literacy goals.
FAQs
Beanstack makes reading progress visible and rewarding through challenges, personalized goals, badges, streaks, leaderboards, and recognition. Librarians can customize themes, goals, and rewards to appeal to different ages and interests while keeping excitement going throughout the year.
Yes. Librarians can run a program for one school or coordinate a shared initiative across an entire district. District leaders can monitor participation across schools while giving each library the flexibility to support its students.
Yes. Beanstack helps librarians organize and promote Battle of the Books, share book lists and activities, track participating students' reading, and recognize progress throughout the program.
Beanstack simplifies program management with ready-to-use challenges, customizable templates, flexible tracking, and automated reporting. Personalized support and promotional resources also help librarians launch programs and maintain momentum.
Dashboards and reports help librarians monitor registrations, participation, reading activity, goal progress, and trends over time. These insights can guide future initiatives, highlight where more support may be needed, and demonstrate the reach of library-led reading.