Education: Recommended for Educators Resources
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EBSCOhost eBooks
Read e-books on all subjects including some vocational textbooks, technical manuals, and Texas history. Note: downloadable e-books available by remote use only.*
Educational Administration Abstracts
This research database includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Select OpenAthens login if prompted. *
ERIC
The U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database contains citations and abstracts from education-related journals, as well as full text of digests and clearinghouse documents.*
Kids Can Code
Get kids ready to code with these interactive e-books designed for learners grades 3-8.*
LearningExpress Library
Interactive practice exams as well as a Job and Career Center. Include TAKS, GED, SAT, civil service, ASVAB, law enforcement, real estate and basic skills tests and online education.*
NoveList K-8 Plus
Online resource for helping teachers, school media specialists and kids find that next great fiction or nonfiction book to read. Includes Lexile scores.*
Professional Development Collection
Articles for professional educators and librarians.*
TeachingBooks
A multimedia online database including thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment. includes a wide variety of tools for both teachers and students including lists of award winners and diverse books, new books, series lists, meet-the-author videos, Lexile levels, reader's advisory tools, and lesson plans. *
Vocational & Career Collection
This collection provides full text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals.*
Recommended Websites
Annenberg Learner
Professional development for teachers and classroom resources across the curriculum. Features streaming videos that teach topics including language learning (Spanish, French, German, ESL, etc.), math and science.
CK-12 Foundation
An online collaborative learning environment for students and educations; offers study guides for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and assistance in curriculum development.
Colorin Colorado!
Colorin Colorado is a free web-based, bilingual service that provides information, activities, and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs, also known as students of English as a second language).
EducationWorld
Education search engine for teachers with links for lesson plans, curriculum, subject areas, and more.
HISD Connect: Houston Independent School District
HISD information.
Houston Area School Districts
Find statistics on all Greater Houston school districts including dropout rates, TEKS and SAT scores, and related data.
Lexile: Find A Book
Allows users to find book Lexile levels with a title search or to find titles with a specific Lexile level.
MIT Open Courseware
MIT's free, web-based course content.
New York Times Learning Network
Provided free from The New York Times, the Learning Network publishes about 1,000 teaching resources each school year, all based on using Times content — articles, essays, images, videos, graphics and podcasts — as teaching tools across subject areas. Designed for onine classroom teachers and parents of students in uppper elementary gades through high school. No subscription is needed, just create a login.
PBS Learning Media
This site offers the best of public media content and produced specifically for PreK-16 teachers. Parents and teachers have free access to over 14,000 high-quality resources.
Read Across America
Motivate your child to read year-round with help from HPL and this National Education Association program. Find free tools and resources, reading calendars and information about events near you.
Texas Education Agency
The Texas Education Agency oversees elementary and secondary public education throughout the state.
Wonderopolis
From the National Center for Family Literacy, Wonderopolis is a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages.