Reach More Readers Challenge
May 1st – May 31st
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 again 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 [that joined the WSDLC prior to March 1st 2024] 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(s) that have seen the greatest increase in the number of students checking out materials in Sora between March and May 2024 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 (based on Advantage accounts) 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 school (again, based on Advantage accounts) that checked out a book in May will be counted.
These two totals will be compared, and the school that sees the highest percentage of growth between March and May 2024 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: TBD
3 Runners-Up: TBD
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. (QR codes of individual titles or to your school’s Sora log in page are great ideas, too!)
2022’s Winners
Grand Prize Winner: Hartford Joint School District #1 — 4,700% increase
First Runner Up: Sun Prairie Area School District – Madison Elementary School — 4,400% increase
Second Runner Up: Crivitz Elementary School — 4,100% increase
Third Runner Up: Sun Prairie Area School District – McDill Elementary School — 2,900% increase
Taking a larger-picture view of 2022’s Challenge:
- A difference of +5,284 more students checked out titles in May over March, equaling a 19% increase across the consortium!
- A difference of +1,124 more new users checked out titles in May over March, equaling a 33% increase across the consortium!
2023’s Winners
Grand Prize Winner: Rosendale Elementary — 12,100% increase
First Runner Up: Oneida Nation School – Elementary — 9,500% increase
Second Runner Up: Baraboo – Jack Young Middle School — 9,400% increase
Third Runner Up: Colby Elementary School — 8,800% increase
Taking a larger-picture view of 2023’s Challenge:
- A difference of +3,521 more students checked out titles in May over March, equaling a 12% increase across the consortium!
- A difference of +895 more new users checked out titles in May over March, equaling a 29% increase across the consortium!
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at wsdlc-info@wils.org