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The adoption of myON is part of Detroit’s ambitious academic plan focusing on literacy and innovation.

The district’s new initiative concentrates on competency-based and personalized learning to meet the specific needs of individual students. myOn offers the 65 schools access to more than 5,300 high-quality, engaging fiction and nonfiction digital books, as well as access to myON’s literacy tools. The district wants to increase student access to books both at home and at school, thereby increasing their love of reading and ultimately leading to increased student achievement. myON also offers titles in Spanish and other languages to help close the literacy gap for English Language Learners. Funding for this initiative came from a Michigan Department of Education Additional Instructional Time Grant, which was awarded to help students who have been identified as needing additional supports and interventions in order to read at grade level by the end of third grade.