Curriculum & Instruction
Texas Educational Resources
- TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge & Skiills)This site will provide you with information on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), which are the state standards for what students should know and be able to do.
- Texas Education Agency's Educational Technology UnitVisit the links below for more information about the work of Texas Education Agency's Educational Technology unit in the Division of Instructional Materials and Educational Technology and statewide educational technology initiatives.
- Texas Educational Agency - Instructional Materials Current Adoption BulletinTexas Education Agency Instructional Materials Current Adoption Bulletin.
- Texas Educational Agency Instructional MaterialsThe Instructional Materials Division provides support and coordination in the review, adoption, and distribution of state-adopted instructional materials.
- Texas Resource ReviewLocal education agencies (LEAs) can use this tool—similar to a Consumer Reports for instructional materials—to strengthen and improve the efficiency of their local review processes. By making it easier for LEAs to select high-quality instructional materials, TRR will help teachers focus their time and energy on what matters most—bringing lessons to life for all students.
Lesson Planning Resources
- Children's core collection This link opens in a new window
Provides a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books, electronic resources, web sites, and periodicals for children from preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids.
- CLCD This link opens in a new window
Provides access to important and relevant information about Pre K-12 media of all types including books, DVDs, videos, and audio books.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowTo search for curriculum resources in ERIC, be sure to limit your search by "Education Level" and "Publication Type" (Guides--Classroom--Learner AND Guides--Classroom--Teacher).
- Middle and junior high core collection This link opens in a new window
Provides a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books for young people in grades five through nine, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists.
- Primary search This link opens in a new window
Offers a resource designed to provide access to journal articles and selected reference sources for elementary school children.
- Senior high core collection This link opens in a new window
Provides a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books for young adults in grades nine through twelve. Consists of fiction titles, nonfiction titles, and short story collections.
- Teacher reference center This link opens in a new window
Provides a subset of Education Research Complete covering key education topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Curriculum, OER, & Lesson Plan Sites
- CK_12CK-12 is a website that offers a variety of free lessons in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). The site breaks down traditional book chapters into smaller, bite-size ideas that may be easier for kids to digest.
- CurrikiIt’s online community of educators, learners and committed education experts works together to build and share quality materials that benefit teachers, parents and students globally.
- Discovery EducationLesson plan library for science, health, mathematics, social studies, technology, arts & literature, and business.
- EdReports.orgEdReports.org is an independent nonprofit designed
to improve education by providing reviews of K-12 instructional materials. - EDSITEment!Humanities lesson plans.
- EngageNYAs part of Race to the Top federal funding, the New York State Education Department worked with various partners to develop curriculum materials for grades Pre-K to 12 in both Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA), and these materials are available for download from EngageNY.
- GreatMindsGreat Minds is a rapidly growing non-profit organization developing world class curricula for PK-12. Our mission is to ensure all students have access to a quality education and the full range of liberal arts and sciences.
- Historic Maps in the K-12 ClassroomThis resource for K-12 teachers and students developed by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library is designed to bring historically significant map documents into your classroom. Inside are high quality images of historic map documents that illustrate the geographical dimensions of American history.
Each map is accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula. - K-6 Arts Lesson PlansLesson plans for dance, drama/theatre, music, and visual art.
- MERLOTThe MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
- OER CommonsOER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials.
- OpenEdOpenEd is the only K-12 educational resource library focused on aligning resources to learning objectives.
- Statistics in Schools’ Parent/Caregiver Toolkits Help With Online SchoolingWith some schools temporarily shuttered or on a staggered schedule because of the ongoing pandemic, many kids are learning from teachers conducting lessons remotely or through a mix of in-class and remote schooling.
With that in mind, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistics in Schools (SIS) program created several new online resources for teachers, parents and caregivers to keep children engaged while distance learning. - TedEDA library of video-based lessons organized by the subjects and topics that reflect curriculum.
- UnboundEDBased on the EngageNY curriculum, UnboundEd provides free, standards-aligned PreK-Grade 12 resources in English Language Arts and Mathematics. These are enhanced by free professional learning resources, including teaching guides, videos and podcasts.
TExES Study Guides
- LearningExpress LibraryThe Career Center has a Practice Occupation Exams section which includes NCLEX-RN practice exams and review, plus resume writing resources, job search tools and much, much more. You can browse the resources without a login, but to look into the NCLEX-RN practice exams, you will need to register first. It's free to register for Baylor University students.
- Texas Educator Certification Examination ProgramIncludes materials by exam. "Only Texas Educator Certification Examination Program exam study materials endorsed by Texas Education Agency (TEA)."
Curriculum Websites
- PBS Learning MediaPBS and your PBS member station have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for teachers.
- ReadWriteThinkLesson plans for reading and language arts.
- Scholastic: Lessons & IdeasThousands of grab-and-go lesson plans, unit plans, discussion guides, extension activities, and other teaching ideas.
Educational Leadership
Educational Organizations and Leadership Resources
- Association of Leadership EducatorsAn organization formed to strengthen and sustain the expertise of professional leadership educators (direct supporters of JOLE).
- Center for Creative LeadershipThis center equips clients around the world with the skills and insight to achieve more than they thought possible through creative leadership.
- Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL)Since 1964, the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) – a non-profit, nonpartisan organization – has been at the forefront of innovative efforts that bring together leaders across the various sectors of education (P-20), workforce development and child- and youth-serving systems. IEL builds partnerships across institutional boundaries, helping individuals and institutions tackle leadership challenges and leverage the resources of multiple partners to foster reform. For IEL, deep and purposeful collaboration is essential to getting results that will transform learning for the 21st Century.
- National Clearinghouse for Leadership ProgramsThe National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs, through the development of cutting edge resources, information sharing, and symposia, supports leadership development in college students by serving as a central source of professional development for leadership educators. The National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs also works to connect leadership educators to one another and support those developing leadership programs in their communities.
Grant Writing and Funding Resources
- The Foundation CenterThis is an excellent source of information about how to find and obtain grants. Includes online help( Ask Us) and free tutorials, e.g., Proposal Writing Short Course, Proposal Budgeting Basics. They also offer fee-based classes on grant writing.
- Grant ForwardContains information about, and links to, more than 25 000 funding opportunities available from government, foundation, and private sources. User-friendly filters allow for precision searching, including opportunities for students and for early-career researchers. Optional features include researcher profile pages, profile-generated funding recommendations, saved searches and alerts, and export of funding opportunity descriptions. Tutorials are included. Produced by Cazoodle, Inc.
Finding Education-Related Statistics
- Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS)Program examining child development, school readiness, and early school experiences. Data collection for the last cohort ended in spring 2016. From National Center for Education Statistics.
- Education Finance Statistics Center (EDFIN)Finance information on public elementary and secondary education. From National Center for Education Statistics.
- Encyclopedia of statistical sciences (Online)Covers statistics, probability theory, biostatistics, quality control, and economics with emphasis in applications of statistical methods in sociology, engineering, computer science, biomedicine, psychology, survey methodology, and other disciplines.
- Explore Census DataThe Census Bureau is the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
- National Assessment of Educational ProgressNational assessment started in the 1960s, explores what students know at grades 4, 8, and 12. From National Center for Education Statistics.
- Public School Student, Staff, and Graduate Counts by StateFrom National Center for Education Statistics.
- US Census, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) ProgramThe U.S. Census Bureau's Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program provides annual estimates of income and poverty statistics for all school districts, counties, and states.
- US Census Education DataThese data are used to keep track of changing educational qualifications of the population by age, sex and race, and other characteristics, and are used by schools, governments, businesses and the public.
- US Department of Education DataED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
Educational Psychology
Psychology Databases
- APA PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to articles from journals published by American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Education Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology, behavioral science, and mental health.
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Contains material not yet indexed in Medline.
- Web of science. Core collection This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed works in 254 disciplines. Includes links to references, citations, and related works and has extensive author profiles.
Tests and Measures
- APA's Guidelines for Test User Qualifications: Executive SummaryExplains qualifications and professional standards in the use of tests with the public.
- FAQ/Finding Information about Psychological TestsProduced by the APA Science Directorate.
- Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing"
In the past 15 years, important developments have occurred in the field of testing, requiring significant revision to Standards. Five areas, in particular, receive attention in the 2014 revision: Examining the accountability issues for the uses of tests in educational policy; Broadening the concept of accessibility of tests for all examinees; Representing more comprehensively the role of tests in the workplace; Taking into account the expanding role of technology in testing; Improving the structure of the book for better communication of the standards" - Statement on the Use of Secure Psychological Tests in the Education of Graduate and Undergraduate Psychology StudentsProduced by the American Psychological Association (APA) Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessment (CPTA).
- Mental measurements yearbook with Tests in print This link opens in a new window
Contains information essential for tests/measurements/evaluation instruments within areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
