GAPS Libraries Resource Update

Hirshhorn is a leading voice for contemporary art and culture and provides a global platform for the art and artists of our time. Art School Everywhere brings Art School to you wherever you are! Explore art, learn about artists, and create unique hands-on projects inspired by your favorite Hirshhorn artworks.

An introduction to modern band and the Music Will Approach -- for anyone in the country! Hands-on learning, practical tools, and expert guidance at your fingertips. Every course is packed with interactive activities designed to help you build your skills through joyful music making.

Special shout-out to Memorial Middle School and South Shore Elementary for their high numbers of student participation -- All students K-12 can participate, and staff, too!

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Applications are now open for a week-long summer institute at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. This program is open to educators (in-service and pre-service), administrators, curriculum specialists, and school librarians. This opportunity, tailored for those working with grades 3 and up, offers a unique, behind-the-scenes look into the Museum's content and collections. Participants get classroom-ready strategies to discuss 9/11 with students and learn how to use artifacts and primary resources to explore themes and issues raised by the attacks.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 29, 2026 @ 11 p.m. ET.

Participants are responsible for their own lodging and travel expenses, but each participant is eligible for a $1000 stipend to help offset these costs. More information and registration available here.

The Oregon Department of Education is inviting education leaders to apply for the High-Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) Technical Advisory Committee. This committee will play an important role in strengthening Oregon’s instructional materials program and ensuring every student experiences meaningful, affirming, grade level learning every day.

OMHOF strives to inspire the continuing of higher musical education by offering assistance with college expenses, so that musical students may aspire to the level of those that have musically made an impact before them and the immense variety they created.

In addition to interactive musical presentations, OMHOF awards yearly the Billy Hagen Memorial Scholarship and Women in Music scholarships to selected graduating Oregon high school seniors who have exhibited serious pursuit and accomplishment in their personal musicianship – and who are college-bound music majors. Recipients are publicly recognized at an award presentation where each performs onstage, demonstrating mastery of his/her instrument.

Applications due February 25, 2026. See site for details.

Inspiring Girls Expeditions is seeking applicants for their tuition-FREE 2026 expeditions! Do you know any 16-18-year-old high school girls and gender non-conforming youth who might be interested in Inspiring Girls Expeditions? Encourage them to apply today! IGE seeks applicants from a variety of interests, academic strengths, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. They do *not* select team members based on past grades or other academic achievement, rather they want to select those who will grow and learn most from the expedition. Learn more!

Research shows that periodic breaks throughout the day don’t just provide valuable downtime—they also boost productivity while giving students opportunities to develop their creativity and social skills. In fact, breaks are a key part of learning, helping students process what they’ve learned by consolidating memories and making connections to other ideas. Read more from Edutopia.

Talk Story: Sharing Stories, Sharing Culture is a family literacy program that reaches out to Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), and American Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN) families and their intergenerational community members. Talk Story celebrates and affirms Asian, Pacific Islander, and American Indian intersectionalities through books, oral traditions, art, and more to provide interactive and enriching experiences.

The resources in this toolkit are designed to help districts prevent abuse and violence,

support students with skills related to healthy relationships, and understand best practices

related to Erin’s Law. The lessons, resources, and other tools provided in this document will

support districts and educators in meeting Oregon’s sexuality education requirements and the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education statute, also known as Erin’s Law.

Oregon math teachers, instructional coaches, and district and school leaders are invited to engage with the Northwest Mathematics Conference (NWMC), a longstanding regional gathering that rotates among Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The next conference is scheduled for October 9–10, 2026 in Portland, hosted by the Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics. This event will feature keynote speakers, a wide range of sessions, and special events organized around the theme Intersections in Learning Mathematics.

These accounts of historical events or figures, all reviewed in Booklist between February 1, 2025, and January 1, 2026, reveal valuable perspectives and bring new life to common accounts of history.

Tools for Teachers is a platform that offers formative assessment strategies and lesson materials designed to support diverse learners through universal design. Find classroom resources you can use today: teacher-created, standards-aligned instructional resources (lesson plans) that incorporate the formative assessment process with embedded formative assessment, accessibility strategies, and printable worksheets.

Essential Question: How do the choices people make, individually and collectively, strengthen or weaken democracy?

In this lesson from Facing History, students reflect on the power of upstanding by exploring the choices of those who supported the Little Rock Nine at great personal risk: Daisy Bates, Rev. Dunbar Ogden, Davis Fitzhugh, Grace Lorch, and Benjamin Fine. Students read firsthand reflections written by these upstanders and reflect on those decisions to support the Little Rock Nine despite the negative social consequences. By reflecting on the choices of upstanders, students will explore their own capacity to stand up to injustice.

Oregon’s Instructional Frameworks website has been updated with resources to support the implementation of Oregon’s Adolescent Literacy Framework. There are resources for classroom educators across the disciplines, coaches, and administrators. There are also resources to support the implementation of Oregon's Early Literacy Framework. And you can find even more resources on ODE's Early Literacy Framework webpage.

GAPS staff and students have access to the following Spanish-language research resources:

• Informe Académico - Una coleccion de revistas hispanicas con textos completos.
• aulaPlaneta Banco de contenidos

Libro.fm offers FREE audiobooks to educators, and this month's selections are here.

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