Spring is here and summer is on its way, which means that most of your students will soon be saying so long to school – for a few months, anyway! But leaving the classroom behind doesn’t mean they also have to give up easy access…
What does it mean to make something wonderful? Likely the best answer is that it depends on who you ask. In Make Something Wonderful, a curated collection of Steve Jobs’ speeches, interviews and correspondence, readers will get an unparalleled window into how one of the…
Sora Sweet Reads is back! Learn more about this year’s program. By: Emily Balser, Integrated Marketing Specialist Can you hear that? If you listen closely enough, you can almost hear the music of the not-so-far-off ice cream truck as it trundles down the street this…
By: Gabby Cregan, Instructional Designer Whether your school year is almost over or it’s just begun, OverDrive Marketplace has reading data and insights to help you better understand how, when, why, and how much your students are using Sora. We asked your OverDrive Account team…
This spring and summer, you can get your Sora collection vacation-ready for less with discounts on audiobooks, children’s books and more. Save on audiobooks for all ages Did you hear the news? From now until June 30, you can save on 50,000+ titles from all…
Summer is on its way to the Northern Hemisphere! For many of us, that might mean warm sunny days, Saturdays on the beach and – best of all – vacation. For your students, it’s an exciting, busy time during which literacy-building habits like reading might…
If you had the chance, what would you do to improve the U.S. education system? It’s a complicated question, with equally complicated answers – but in a recent interview with Yitzi Weiner from Authority Magazine, OverDrive Education General Manager Angela Arnold distilled down some of…
By: Kristen Hein, Account Manager In our recurring Sora Spotlight series, we feature a wide range of educators who’ve become Sora champions at their school, impressing us with their innovative methods for implementing the reading app and engaging with their students. Here, we ask them…
Since February, we’ve been collecting your entries for the School Stars contest. So far, we’ve seen so many awesome submissions, from amazing bulletin board displays, to memes, to videos and more! Your entries are creative, funny, heart-warming, and inspiring. We love getting a glimpse into…
By: Sydney Kalnay, Training Manager As an educator, what do you find harder: getting sick or managing your lessons when you’re out sick? I admit that I used to come into work, pre-COVID – pockets overflowing with tissue and DayQuil – because it was more…
If you’re like most educators, your students probably can’t get enough of audiobooks. They’re a great way to appeal to every kind of reader and offer more advantages than you might’ve realized. But as audiobooks grow in popularity across kids of all age groups, it…
By: Kristen Hein, Account Manager Supporting your English classes with digital novels seems like a natural approach, a natural fit and a natural partnership. But a librarian and a PE teacher? Now, that may seem like an unlikely pair! However, as our past Sora Spotlight…