Beanstack Tracker vs Beanstalk Kidz Staff

Beanstack helps schools, libraries, and families bring the fun back to reading with reading challenges, easy tracking, and insightful data. We invite students, families, and readers of all ages to a world of reading inspiration and motivation. You can create profiles for everyone in your family within a single library or Beanstack Go account, or you can use SSO to sign in to any of your students’ school accounts and swiftly toggle between them. Beanstack helps you grow your reading habits together, while also logging and tracking reading progress individually. We never sell your data or use it to show you ads, so Beanstack is safe for everyone. Features: - Join motivating reading challenges created by librarians, educators, and reading specialists. Our ever-growing reading challenge collection features seasonal challenges like summer reading, yearlong literacy initiatives, and diverse custom challenges for all ages, levels, and communities. - Track reading progress and create an all-time reading log. - Use a barcode scanner to quickly and easily find titles. - Record reading sessions with a reading timer or log an entire book with a click. - Achieve streaks for reading multiple days in a row and badges for reaching reading goals. - Complete fun enrichment activities and leave book reviews. - Access reading recommendations and resources. - Add friends from your organization to see what they’re reading and compete on leaderboards. - View reading stats, including totals and averages of time spent reading and titles read. - Participate in reading fundraisers: Raise money for your organization with reading! With Beanstack’s reading fundraisers, you can earn badges while collecting donations to fund important priorities at your school or library. Beanstack is created by Joyful Reading Co, where we're dedicated to nurturing a lifelong love of reading through engagement, access, and data-driven insights.

Beanstalk Kidz Staff is the classroom companion for Beanstalk Kidz teachers and staff. CHECK-IN & PICKUP • Scan a Bean's QR code for fast drop-off and pickup • Live pickup queue and today's attendance at a glance • Kiosk mode for a shared front-desk device DAILY CARE • Daily reports covering mood, meals, naps and activities • Log activities for individual Beans or the whole class • Medication tracking SAFETY & COMPLIANCE • Incident reports, with parent-notified tracking • Safety drill log (lockdown, shelter-in-place, tornado and more) STAY CONNECTED • Leaflets: direct messages and classroom updates with families • Sunbeams: send announcements • Events calendar and push notifications A Beanstalk Kidz staff account is required.