Washington's platform for sharing K-12 open educational resources - providing equitable
access to standards-aligned, high-quality instructional materials.
Jewish American Heritage Month is a time to discover, explore, and celebrate the vibrant and varied American Jewish experience from the dawn of our nation to the present day.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month recognizes the contributions and influence of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States.
Here are a few resources on the Washington OER Hub you may find helpful:
9 Ideas for Teaching Jewish American Heritage Month (K-12) | Anti-Defamation League
Pyramid of Hate Lesson (9-12) | Holocaust Center for Humanity
Sol LeWitt’s Concepts and Structures (9-12) | National Gallery of Art
Teaching & Learning Best Practices for the Holocaust and Other Genocides | Holocaust Center for Humanity
Asian American & Pacific Islander Perspectives within Humanities Education (6-12) | Edsitement
Injustice at Home: The Japanese-American Experience of the Word War II Era (7-12)| KSPS Public Television and Washington educators
Island Soundscape: Musics of Hawai'i, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea (3-5)| Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
These collections provide a curated selection of Washington developed resources as well as links to external organizations providing quality online educational materials.
Click a link below to search by Content Area/Practice or Audience (Families, Youngest Learners, Students with Disabilities, Multilingual/English Learners, etc.)
Collections of remote-learning resources focused on supporting the needs of different groups
These working groups contain resources created by OSPI in partnership with Washington educators,
OSPI grantees or collaborators, or Washington districts/schools (select a hyerlink below).
These groups contain lessons, units, and courses developed by OSPI staff, expert Washington educators, and our collaborators, and is vetted and managed by OSPI.
Washington OER
OER Development Tools and Guidance
Washington Arts
Washington Career and Technical Education
Washington Dual Language Education
Washington Educational Technology
Washington Early Learning
Washington English Language Arts
Washington Health and Physical Education
Washington Mathematics
Washington Science
Washington Social StudiesThese groups and their resources are vetted and managed by OSPI grantees.
Washington OER Grantees
ClimeTime
Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship
Financial Ed. Public Private Partnership
Kip Tokuda Grantees
Washington School Counseling Resources
Washington Animating Civic Action
Washington Environmental Education
educurious
Modeling Our World with Mathematics
Washington Heritage Language OER
Pacific Education Institute
REGIONAL STEM INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS COLLABORATIVE
SEL Resources
Southeast WA OER Consortium
State of Innovation Challenge
Washington Arts Collaborative
Washington Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth - CDHY
Washington Multilingual/English Learners
Washington P3 Reentry to School
Washington World Language CollaborativeThese groups and their resources are managed and curated by districts or schools.
The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Open Educational Resources (OER) Project raises OER awareness and provides support for school districts adapting, developing, and implementing openly-licensed instructional materials.
Our Washington OER Hub is an online library of free, high-quality, K-12 OER created by and curated for Washington educators. All these materials are aligned with Washington State learning standards and may be downloaded, adapted, and shared to better serve all students.
Visit the Washington OER Group for "getting started" resources including a Washington OER Hub User Guide. Join the Washington OER group to become a member of the Washington OER hub. You will receive periodic updates on Washington OER and have the ability to create a user profile that lets you review, save, and curate resources under the "My Items" menu
The collection of openly licensed educational resources on the Washington OER Hub include unit or robust lesson level supplemental instructional materials, lists of currently available full-course OER, educator guidance documents, and professional learning materials. Users can search for materials by content area, grade, or learning standard, or browse through curated learning collections organized by content area or target audience.
The Washington OER Hub regularly adds content and resources. OSPI also collaborates with our Washington Educational Service Districts, Washington state and national non-profit educational organizations, Washington state teachers, and other state agencies to generate standards-based resources.
All resources in the OSPI curated Learning Collections are closely reviewed to ensure that they:
Explicitly address Washington Learning Standards, development guidelines, or benchmarks.
The Washington OER Hub contains free, high-quality, K-12 resources and materials for Washington educators in the following areas:
PreK, Kindergarten, Elementary, Lower Primary, Upper Primary, Middle School, and High School
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May 19, 2023, 2:08 p.m.
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