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The Learning List
A Free Directory of the K-12 Instructional Materials
Looking for new instructional materials? We’ve compiled state adoption lists and publisher catalogs into a single, easy-to-use directory, organized by grade band, to help educators and curriculum teams find K-12 curriculum resources faster.
Explore instructional materials across grades K–12 in one central location, no registration required.
Learning List Insights
Expert Guidance from Our Work with Districts Across the Country
Over more than a decade, Learning List has reviewed thousands of instructional materials and supported hundreds of districts with instructional materials adoptions. These white papers reflect what we’ve learned—and are designed to help your team make informed, efficient, and high-quality curriculum decisions.
Mapping Instructional Materials to Your District Curriculum
Aligning instructional materials to your district’s written curriculum ensures that lessons and activities support standards-based instruction and student success. However, this process often feels like fitting a square peg in a round hole.
This white paper outlines strategies to streamline curriculum mapping, reduce teacher workload, and strengthen instructional coherence. Whether you’re beginning the process or refining your approach, this resource offers practical, field-tested guidance.
Guidance for Selecting or Curating High-Quality Instructional Resources
Whether you're preparing for an instructional materials adoption or working to organize teacher-created resources, this paper can help.
Drawing on years of experience reviewing instructional content and supporting district adoptions, Learning List offers a data-driven process for evaluating both published and locally developed resources. Learn how to identify gaps, ensure standards alignment, and build a coherent system of instructional support across your campuses.
Guidance for Selecting or Curating High-Quality Instructional Resources
If you are preparing to manage an instructional materials adoption or you would like to bring order to the teacher-created resources in your district/on your campus, this paper will help! Over the last decade, Learning List has reviewed thousands of materials and assisted hundreds of districts with their instructional materials adoptions. This paper suggests a data-driven process for reviewing instructional materials and teacher-created lesson resources. We share lessons learned from our experiences reviewing materials and assisting districts to help you ensure the quality and coherence of the instructional resources being used on campuses across your district.
Guidance for Selecting or Curating High-Quality Instructional Resources
Educators overwhelmingly value standards alignment, yet many
believe their materials fall short. Accurately evaluating instructional
materials for alignment can be complex—even for experienced educators.
This white paper highlights common alignment pitfalls and provides actionable strategies to help educators and publishers assess materials for full alignment to the content, context, and cognitive rigor of academic standards.