NISD Learning Resource Bookmarks

"An educator's guide to open educational resources (OER), including online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open textbooks."

Snapshots, Assessments, and TEKS-Based Activity Starters

Analysis of the transition process for implementing the new Texas math standards.

Livebinder of instructional resources in all content areas K-12

Free language education for the world

The following documents contain a list of Khan Academy videos that have been aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge Skills/Student Expectations.

A nonprofit K-12 global community for teachers, students, and parents to create, share, and find free learning resources that enable true personalized learning.

Interactive, standards-based resources in the core areas.

The mission of Neuhaus Academy is to aid adolescent and adult learners to read well by offering instruction that is tailored to specific learning needs and allows each learner to work at his or her own pace. The words on Neuhaus Academy are found in academic textbooks, in classical literature, and on high-stakes testing. The user can choose words in the first column for information about how to correctly decode or pronounce words, or the user may choose words in the second column to learn more about the meanings of words. The user can toggle back and forth between words that appear in both columns.

Project Share is a collection of Web 2.0 tools and applications that provides high quality professional development in an interactive and engaging learning environment. Project Share leverages existing and new professional development resources for K-12 teachers across the state and builds professional learning communities where educators can collaborate and participate in online learning opportunities.

Explore our videos featuring lectures by more than 250 eminent historians and search by topic.

The Gilder Lehrman Collection is a unique archive of primary sources in American history. Owned by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and located at the New-York Historical Society, the Collection includes more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera that document the political, social, and economic history of the United States. An extensive resource for educators, students, and scholars, the Collection ranges from 1493 through the twentieth century and is widely considered one of the nation's great archives in the Revolutionary, early national, antebellum, and Civil War periods.

Welcome, students! Here are thirty-eight short essays from History Now, an online publication from Gilder Lehrman. Each piece is written by a prominent historian and addresses a key topic in US history. The readings are designed to provide you with more information on subjects you are likely to see on the AP US exam in the DBQ and/or FRQ sections.