Click the links below to view recordings of our most recent webinars!
Beanstack EDU 200: Essential Reports
December 3, 2024
Looking to learn more about the reports available in Beanstack? In this 30 minute session, we'll share our favorite reports for gathering independent reading data. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your data game to drive engagement and success!
Beanstack EDU: How to Have a Successful Winter Reading Challenge
November 13, 2024
It's time to get ready for winter with Beanstack! Join us for a session to review the key steps to have a successful, seamless experience with Beanstack this winter. We'll cover challenge prizes, tips for success, resources, and more! Be a Reading Machine this January with Beanstack!
Beanstack EDU: Engaging Middle and High School Students
Sep 18, 2024
This 30-minute session is dedicated to specifically engaging secondary readers. We'll share incentive ideas and best practices from Beanstack schools successfully engaging this group of students.
Beanstack EDU: What's New for Back to School
Sep 17, 2024
In this session, we'll cover all new functionality launched since last back to school season: Lexile insights, classroom libraries, student leaderboards, community goal call out and more!
Beanstack EDU: School Media Specialist and Administrator Essentials (coming soon)
Sep 12, 2024
In this 60-minute session for site administrators, learn essentials for effectively taking advantage of features designed for Beanstack admins, including: creating reading challenges, viewing insights, leaderboards, and reports, logging for classes, setting up rewards, and creating a community goal for your school.
BeanstackEDU: Building a Reading Culture through Gamification
Aug 28, 2024
In this 45-minute session, learn about best practices and how to put them in motion through rewards, tickets, and drawings, setting a community goal, and competitions.
August 22, 2024
"How do I know students actually read what they logged?" Learn why we don't use quizzes in Beanstack and how you can promote honest logging. We'll cover how to use Beanstack's guardrails, data, and social tools to promote digital citizenship and build a true culture of reading.
Beanstack EDU: How to Train (and Engage!) Your Teachers
August 6, 2024
In this 45-minute train-the-trainer session, learn how to effectively train your teachers to use Beanstack and get buy-in. Attendees will walk away with a customizable slide deck they can use for their own back-to-school training with teachers!
Getting Started with Beanstack (Kickoff Training) (Schools)
August 6, 2024
This comprehensive weekly session is designed for both brand-new and veteran admins. We'll review the standard experiences for students, including new features that have debuted in the last year. For admins, we'll review key tasks and need-to-know information, including setting a community goal, logging for classes, and accessing your data. We'll also cover (updated!) launch and rollout resources.
August 1, 2024
Everything you need to know to manage Beanstack CSV rostering using simple spreadsheet imports. Step-by-step rostering for students, teachers, and course enrollments + how to streamline back-to-school updates + maintain rosters over time.
July 25, 2024
In this 45-minute session for teachers, learn key features to effectively use Beanstack in your classroom, including: creating reading challenges, viewing insights, leaderboards, and reports, and logging for classes.
School District Administrator Essentials
July 24, 2024
In this 60-minute session, district leads will learn how to navigate their district-level dashboard, including insights, reports, district challenges, accessing school sites, and best practices for engagement.
School Media Specialist and Administrator Essentials
July 23, 2024
In this 60-minute session for site administrators, learn essentials for effectively taking advantage of features designed for Beanstack admins, including: creating reading challenges, viewing insights, leaderboards, and reports, logging for classes, setting up rewards, and creating a community goal for your school.
Driving Engagement with Your Summer Reading Challenge
April 24, 2024
In this 30-minute session, we'll share three key actions to take in preparation for and during your summer reading challenge to drive engagement. We'll show you how to use data and insights to track progress toward your goal, provide incentives and recognition, and create friendly competition.
Bingo! for Summer Reading
Apr 17, 2024
In this 45-minute session, we'll help you prep for summer reading! We'll review district and school challenge publishing, bingo functionality, adding rewards to a challenge, and more!
February 21, 2024
In this 45-minute session, we'll review best practices for engaging your students as well as key teacher functions in Beanstack, including creating reading challenges + adding rewards, viewing insights, leaderboards, and reports, and logging for classes.
Audience: Teachers
How to Train (and Engage!) Your Teachers
February 13, 2024
In this 45-minute train-the-trainer session, we'll review best practices and content for training your teachers on Beanstack.
Audience: Library Media Specialists, Site Admins, District Admins
How to Read to Raise with a Beanstack Reading Fundraiser
February 2, 2024
Learn how to raise funds for your library or school with a Beanstack Reading Fundraiser! Reading fundraisers are an equitable way to engage your entire community in your students’ reading success, and raise much-needed funds at the same time.
We cover reading fundraiser basics, like how they work and how students and parents participate. You'll also learn about donation badges, community sponsors, and tips and tricks for prize selection for your readers. We also walk through a demo of how to create a reading fundraiser from scratch, and share a recommended timeline from start to finish for prep and communication with your community.
Building a Reading Culture Through Gamification
January 31, 2024
Join Senior School Success Manager Elizabeth Ross in this 45-minute session to learn all about challenge engagement best practices. We share how gamification principles can motivate your participants to read more and create excitement for your community’s challenges and reading goals. We hone in on our three key engagement strategies: setting a community goal, running a competition, and providing recognition and incentives.
To get the most out of this webinar, please sign into your Beanstack admin account and be ready to follow along!
Media Specialist & Teacher Dashboard Updates Webinar
March 8, 2023
In this 30-minute session, learn more about the new admin dashboard view and functionality. We'll take a look at the new view and how to navigate it, the new Classes & Readers page, discuss Teacher Challenges, and more.