Reach More Readers Challenge 2022

Get ahead of the summer slide, increase awareness of the WSDLC collections, and maybe even score some Sora swag by encouraging your students to participate in a friendly competition with other schools across the state!

The WSDLC is hosting a contest aimed at helping member schools try out new methods- and utilize old favorites- for reaching students before they depart for the summer!

What You Need to Do

Every school is automatically entered into this competition; all you need to do is spread the word and get as many students as you can to log in to Sora and check out [at least] one title between May 1st and May 31st! It can be a magazine, an audiobook, a graphic novel, anything! If it’s available in Sora and gets checked out, it counts!

How Are Winners Determined?

The school district(s) that have seen the greatest increase in the number of students checking out materials in Sora between March and May 2022 will be declared the winner!

How are we calculating this?

We’re starting with the Unique Users report available in Marketplace Insights: The number of students from each school district that checked out at least one title during the month of March has been tallied, so we already have a base to start with.

At the end of May, we’ll run another Unique Users report, where the number of students from each district that checked out a book in May will be counted.

These two totals will be compared, and the school district that sees the highest percentage of growth between March and May 2022 will be the winner.

Why Percent Growth?

There are many reasons why we chose this metric.

For one, we want to help get more of your students accessing the collections!

Another reason is that there is such a wide spread in the number of students enrolled in each member district. Looking at percent-growth gives school districts with fewer than 100 students enrolled and school districts with over 10,000 students enrolled an equal opportunity.

Prizes

Grand Prize Winner: 5 Sora sweatshirts, plus some additional Sora swag!

3 Runners-Up: 2 Sora sweatshirts plus some additional Sora swag!

Use these prizes in your own library as promotional items; as prizes for this or other competitions or raffles at your school; or keep it for yourself (we promise, no judgments here)!

What Are Some Ways I Can Market?

Looking for some ideas on how to reach your students before they leave for the summer and bump up your numbers for this competition? Take a look at the WSDLC’s Marketing and Promotion Resources page, April’s Flipped Classroom: Marketing and Promotion, and OverDrive’s Resource Center!

We’ve also created QR Codes that will take students directly to some of the WSDLC Curated Collections! You can use these with your own marketing materials, or in customizable marketing materials from OverDrive’s Resource Center: add these codes to printable bookmarks, or as flyers to hang in your library, classrooms, hallways, table tents, bathroom stall doors, or anywhere else students may have their phones with them!