Library Guides: Education: Primary Sources

Image and Multimedia Collections

These resources aid in locating images of works of art or other artifacts, films, scores, and records of artistic or musical performances.

Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines. Includes Latin American content.
International Database of Education Systematic Reviews
IDESR is a database of published systematic reviews in Education and a clearinghouse for protocol registration of ongoing and planned systematic reviews.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Provides access to records and digital images of pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
TEDEd
TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos, to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons.

Lesson Plans

Bring the World to Your Classroom
WNIT and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Indiana teachers like you.Teachers are encouraged to be registered users of content.
Diversification / Decolonization of the Curriculum LibGuide
Presented by Adelphi University Libraries, this resource provides information
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In the light of the nationwide protests and increased discourse on issues of systemic racism in our country, Adelphi is committed to strategically make changes in our curriculum to include best practices and literature that will deepen and intensify our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The library dean, staff and faculty have collected resources for all content areas and programs for faculty to use as we make important changes to our curriculum. These resources will help you as an instructor to do the following:
Consider best practices that would promote diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Lead the exploration of opportunities for area-specific curriculum enhancement as relates to diversity. Examine the potential role of curriculum in diminishing bias. Examine and use best teaching practices e.g Universal design for Learning.
ACRL/EBSS Open Education Resources for Teacher Education
Created by the EBSS Education Committee, this guide is designed for Education Liaison Librarians looking for OERs relevant for teacher education programs.
Center for Civic Education
The Center offers the most effective programs in the world in civic education for democracy. The main curricular programs of the Center are the following:
We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, which is used at upper elementary, middle, and high school levels and in colleges and universities.
We the People: Project Citizen, which is used at upper elementary, middle, and high school levels and in colleges and universities.
Foundations of Democracy, which is used in classrooms ranging from kindergarten through the twelfth grade.
Khan Academy
Our math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps. This is an excellent tool for your students to utilize outside of your classroom experience.
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Our Partners: NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT. Each offers specialized content.
The Learning Network; The New York Times
News and commentary from a "newspaper of record."
Lesson Plan Central
Plans for secondary school educators arranged by grade level and subject.
Library of Congress for Teachers
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.
Smithsonian Learning Lab
The Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian's expansive community of knowledge and learning. A tremendous resource for Grades 7th-12 students.

Education Resources - Administration

Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Staff
ISBN: 9789264068780
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Encyclopaedia of Supervision and Administration In Elementary Education by K. R. Rao
ISBN: 9789350439388
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
School supervision; Elementary school administration; Elementary--Evaluation
PERFORMANCE-BASED FUNDING IN HIGHER EDUCATION : THE STATE OF TRUTH IN THE INFORMATION AGE. by Angela Letizia
Publication Date: 2015
Linguistics at School by Kristin Denham
ISBN: 9780511767050
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Linguistics from the top down: encouraging institutional change in elementary and secondary schools.