2025 Elevated Teaching Summit

Read It and Reap: Incentivizing Teen Readers Without Losing Rigor explores how secondary ELA teachers can boost student motivation and independent reading without sacrificing academic depth. This session highlights the creative use of Beanstack, a digital reading challenge platform, to track progress, encourage goal-setting, and celebrate reading milestones. Participants will see examples of how educators integrate Beanstack into their curriculum to align with learning goals, foster authentic reading habits, and celebrate student growth. Walk away with practical strategies to engage reluctant readers, promote reading accountability, and cultivate a culture of joyful, purposeful reading in secondary classrooms.