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Annenberg Learner's mission is to "Advance Excellent Teaching in American Schools." We have pursued this mission for more than three decades by funding and distributing multimedia resources for teachers (K-12 and college levels) to teach their subjects and to stay up-to-date in their fields. As our name Annenberg Learner implies, we focus on the teacher as a learner, as well as the student as a learner. In fact, all adults who are lifelong learners have enjoyed and benefited from using our resources.

Seeks to provide effective models of innovation in K-12 education. They provide videos that aim to help educators implement strategies for technology integration, teacher development, and social and emotional development, project-based learning, integrated studies, and comprehensive assessment. (Catalano, 2015)

This free repository of over 700 professional development videos for teachers boasts high-quality production and effective indexing. Most videos are brief and include a transcript, objective, and discussion questions. The goal of this website is to display effective teaching practices in U.S. classrooms (Catalano, 2015)

Free database of videos of teachers teaching. Anyone can upload a video. Videos are searchable by grade level and subject.

The Nietz Old Textbook Collection is one of several well-known collections of 19th Century schoolbooks in the United States. Among the 16,000 volumes are many titles that are rarely held and have not yet been reproduced in microform collections or reprint editions. The collection is used by Pitt faculty and students as well as visiting scholars from other colleges and universities. The ULS received two U.S. Higher Education Act Title IIC grants (1985-1987) to catalog the original collection.