Our shared goal: equity and access to improve literacy rates
Our shared goal is to provide each child in Hillsborough County with equitable access to books anytime, anywhere—to encourage and promote reading and increase literacy rates for all. Through this initiative, over 6,900 myON digital texts currently are available to all children from birth through 8th grade.
During the past 10 years
• Hundreds of thousands of children from birth through 8th grade have had free access to myON
• Parents have been supported through partnerships with community agencies and neighborhood schools
• Books have been accessed over 71,718,216 times
• Over 336 million minutes have been spent reading on myON
• 39% of the books children access on myON through this partnership are opened for the first time outside of school hours
Milestones
• February 2012 – Read on myON launched
• January 2017 – 25 million books accessed
• April 2019 – 50 million books accessed
• Spring 2022 – 75 million books accessed
Highlights and events
• Supported all major sports teams through Community reading challenges
• Supported the annual Black History Month Digital Read-In
• Hosted seasonal reading challenges
2013
Our Partners
Starting in February 2012, with the help of many community partners and a shared vision of providing all children in Hillsborough County with myON reader, we’ve worked together to provide equitable access to books anytime- anywhere, to increase literacy rates, and to build a community of readers in Hillsborough.
It is this shared vision, that year after year, each of Hillsborough’s community partner’s outstanding leadership continues to support. From reading challenges, to Black History Month Digital Read-In, literacy fairs and countless other events that continue to accelerate learning and improve student outcomes for the community of Hillsborough.
We thank our partners for their support and ask for their continued commitment as we forge ahead and continue building a community of readers with myON.
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