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The Support & Community You Need to Teach the Way You Want

We are a community of educators, scholars, and historians that works together in pursuit of the best possible outcomes in teaching and learning. We are passionate about supporting teachers. And like everything we do, there is no cost—ever.

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Train Your Way

OER Project events, live professional development sessions and on-demand PD courses provide surround sound support.

  • Explore full, on-demand PD courses, full of easy-to-follow videos, planning resources and advice from veteran teachers.
  • Attend a variety of live, virtual, in-person training sessions and events to further your teaching practice.
  • Discover best practices, inspiring ideas, and the latest research.
  • Where applicable, earn professional development credit for your participation in OER Project PD offerings.
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Meet Your Local Requirements

We've worked with many states and educators to develop planning materials that demonstrate our alignment to specific state standards for social studies.

  • Find out where our curricula meet your requirements.
  • Teach courses in their entirety or supplement your existing materials.
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Get Help When You Need It

The OER Project Online Teacher Community is active and available 24x7—it’s a collaborative group of educators who are focused on improving their own teaching practices and helping others do the same. Ask for support, share ideas, and find inspiration and resources for any of our OER Project courses. In our community, we have dedicated groups for our new members, for specific OER Project courses, and more.

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Adapt to Different Learning Needs

Use our built-in scaffolding tools to adapt our course materials to a range of learning abilities.

  • Lexile-leveled readings, audio recordings of articles, and historical graphic biographies
  • Video captions and transcripts for download
  • Graphic organizers and templates
  • Writing prompts, real-time writing feedback, and essay scoring
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Work with Your Infrastructure

Our materials and platform are open and flexible to meet a range of infrastructure limitations and requirements.

  • Online
  • Download
  • Print
  • Integrate with your LMS and Google Classroom
  • Clever single sign-on support
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Start Teaching OER Project Courses

Join OER Project to get instant access to all our courses and materials for free, with absolutely zero hidden catches.

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