09/14/2026
We’re launching into reading with Beanstack! 🚀📚
This year, Beanstack is replacing Accelerated Reader (AR) as the tool our students will use to track their reading progress. With Beanstack, students will log the minutes they spend reading and watch those minutes add up throughout the school year!
Our students have a goal of reaching 4,000 minutes of reading by the end of the school year. It may sound like a lot, but reaching the goal starts with just 25 minutes of reading a day, five days a week!
And we’re reading toward an even bigger goal together! Across IDEA Public Schools, our district-wide challenge is to reach 5 million minutes of reading by May 7. That’s more than 83,000 hours of reading and could equal nearly 28,000 books!
Families, you can help us reach our goal by encouraging your student to make reading part of their daily routine and reminding them to log their minutes in Beanstack. Whether they read at school, after homework, before bed, or over the weekend, every minute counts!
Ready, set, READ! 🚀
Let’s see how far 5 million minutes can take us!