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Resources for Educators

Research centers at Stanford Graduate School of Education develop a variety of free resources to support the work of PK–12 educators and teacher educators. Explore the resources listed here and visit our research center sites to learn more about their work.

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AI & Digital Learning

AI For Educators: Insights from Stanford
AI For Educators: Insights from Stanford

In this series, Stanford faculty share their experiences and perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI) and learning as they respond to questions from educators. Each video comes with a set of discussion questions that you can use to self-reflect or engage in conversation with your colleagues.


AI Promising Practices: Educator Profiles

GSE Professional Learning interviewed several educators who work directly with teachers and administrators to effectively utilize artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. These profiles highlight their work at the intersection of technology and practice, and their unique perspectives.


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CRAFT AI Literacy Resources

CRAFT is a continually growing collection of free adaptable AI Literacy resources for high school teachers, to help students explore, understand, and critique AI. The resources, co-designed with educators, contextualize AI in a multidisciplinary way so that teachers in any discipline can use them.


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Virtual Field Trips

The Virtual Field Trips project provides resources to create virtual field trips and features use cases of virtual field trips in classrooms across sciencegeology, history, architecture, and more.  Advances in technology have reduced the barriers to creation, opening opportunities for educators and students to become content creators, embedding concepts in locally or personally meaningful contexts.


History

Evaluating online information | Grades 6–12
Civic Online Reasoning curriculum

Ready-to-use lessons, assessments, and videos to support the teaching of critical evaluation skills for online information. Appropriate for all subject areas.


World history | U.S. history | Grades 6–12
Beyond the Bubble history assessments

Beyond the Bubble unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress in over 100 easy-to-use assessments that measure students’ historical thinking.


World history | U.S. history | Grades 6–12
Reading Like a Historian curriculum

History lessons that teach critical reading strategies and engage students around a central historical question using primary sources. Designed for group work. Available in Spanish.


Mathematics

Math | Pre-K
Early math family engagement

Resources for parents, educators, and all who work alongside families with young children to support playful math learning through games, storybook reading, cooking, and daily routines. Available in Spanish.


Math | Teacher ed | Pre-K
Early math resources for teacher educators

Research-based materials designed for early childhood teacher educators to support prospective and practicing teachers to promote young children’s mathematical learning


Math | Grades K–12
Youcubed mathematical tasks
Center: youcubed

Open, visual, creative math tasks that integrate brain science and are designed to engage and inspire students. 


Science

Science | K-12
Stanford NGSS Assessment Project

Research and reports, model assessments, and resources for professional development all focused on ways that high-quality performance assessment can support the implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards.


Science | Grade 6
Learning Through Performance curriculum

A curriculum of project-based learning, aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and designed to incorporate embedded performance assessments. Includes orientation to group work. 


Science | Grades 6–8
Stanford NGSS Integrated Curriculum

A Next Generation Science Standards-designed, project-based science curriculum aligned with the California Integrated model in which earth and space science, life science, and physical science and/or engineering are integrated in each unit. 


Multilingual learners

All content areas | Teacher ed | All levels
Professional development essentials for educators of multilingual learners

Six essential considerations for professional development providers when designing plans to support and develop educators of multilingual learners.


All content areas | Teacher ed | All levels
English learner library of resources

An online curriculum designed to prepare teachers to work with students from culturally diverse backgrounds, supporting language development through standards-based, content area learning. For teachers and teacher educators.


Student well-being and engagement

Well being | Learner engagement | School change | PK–12
Challenge Success resource bank

Hundreds of resources to promote student well-being and engagement with learning, including tools, strategies, tip sheets, webinars, and research white papers.


All content areas | All levels
Formative assessment in remote learning

Two recorded webinars on strengthening formative assessment practices in remote learning environments to support language and content development and social emotional learning. 


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