In Pasco County Schools we believe that literacy is the key to unlock the big hopes and dreams of our students. School library media centers and classroom libraries play a critical role in supporting the mission and vision of Pasco County Schools. It is our aim to provide libraries that include materials that build knowledge, support state standards, are age/grade appropriate and engaging and relevant to students.
Beanstack Resources
Beanstack is a powerful tool that helps foster a love of reading across our schools!
It encourages students to read more by adding a fun, friendly layer of competition—and it’s easy to use.
Please encourage your child to read for pleasure and log their reading minutes regularly in Beanstack. Every minute counts toward our district-wide goal and helps build lifelong reading habits!
Pasco County Schools is thrilled to launch the 3rd Annual R.A.C.E. to Read Pasco! This district-wide reading challenge invites all Pre-K through 12th grade students and staff to join in for the 2025–2026 school year.
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Our goal: Read 20 million minutes collectively between August 12, 2025, and May 15, 2026.
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How to participate: Log your reading minutes using Beanstack.
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Celebrations: Each school will host its own celebrations to recognize reading milestones.
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Special Recognition: This year, a quarterly traveling trophy will be awarded to schools at each level in recognition of outstanding performance.
Let’s come together to Read Across the County Every Day—and make every minute count!
Logging minutes is easy!
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Click on the Beanstack app on myPascoConnect dashboard.
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Click the “Log Reading" button, choose a date on the calendar.
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Enter book title or click barcode scanner icon.
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Enter minutes read or start timer. Then click "Log Reading!"
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Access this video for more information.
SORA
Students in Pasco County Schools have access to free eBooks and audiobooks! This content is provided as optional, self-selected reading material for students and families to enjoy. The Sora app can be accessed from students' myPascoConnect dashboard.
You may also access additional information about reading a free Sora eBook or listing to an audiobook in Sora's help center.
https://help.soraapp.com/en-us/categories/reading-listening.htm
** Please note that students who have "Limited Access" or "No Access" designated for Library Media Center Usage will not be able to access Beanstack or Sora.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education provides dedicated content collections, culturally authentic material and standards-aligned content and resources to make digital learning engaging and accessible to all students. Discovery Education’s resources and tools support instruction and learning in the digital learning environment with many ways to engage all students daily with multimodal resources, tools, and instructional strategies.
Florida Electronic Library
Florida Department of State, Division of Library, and Information Services provides research databases, eBooks, and peer-reviewed articles from scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. When accessed through student’s MyPasco Connect dashboard, the content available is based on grade level.
Leaning Ally
Learning Ally is an audio book platform available to students who meet eligibility requirements; significant reading deficits, visually impaired, and students with designations such as multilingual learner (MLL), autism, ADHD, having an IEP/504, should also be considered for eligibility based on the criteria outlined. School-based staff must enroll students.
myON
myON is a digital library. eBook content is only accessible to students enrolled in eSchool classes. Titles are dynamically matched to each individual student’s interests, grade and reading level. Combined with a suite of close reading tools and embedded support, myON fosters student engagement and achievement.
Collection Development Procedure
Effective July 1, 2022, each book newly made available to students through a school library media center or included in a recommended or assigned school or grade level reading list must be selected and approved by a District employee who holds a valid educational media specialist certificate, regardless of whether the book is purchased, donated or otherwise made available to students.
The District's Library Media Specialists will endeavor to stay informed about appropriate new publications, using multiple sources, such as discussions with colleagues, attendance at conferences, and reading a variety of periodicals and book reviews. The Library Media Specialists will also receive and consider suggestions or requests brought forward by other faculty, students and parents.
Potential new books for the school library media center and reading lists will be evaluated to determine if they would be suitable for student needs and whether they would be appropriate for the intended grade level and age group. In considering possible new acquisitions, the Library Media Specialists will consult reputable, professionally recognized reviewing periodicals and school community stakeholders. The Library Media Specialist will also assess the level of student interest in the subject(s) presented and the ability of students to comprehend the material. Books that are selected must be free of pornography and material prohibited under F.S. 847.012.
The goal of the selection process is for the school's library media center and reading list collections to be based on reader interest, the support of State standards and aligned curriculum, and the academic needs of students and faculty.
After evaluation, the Library Media Specialists will inform principals of those books that have been evaluated and are approved for inclusion in the collections.
Periodically, books will be removed from the collection or discontinued, based on their poor physical condition, low rate of recent circulation, non-alignment to State standards, out-of-date content, or status following a parent's or community member's objection.