LibGuides: Teacher Curriculum Center Digital Resources: Textbook and Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Open Educational Resources

CSUN's Affordable Learning Resources Guide AL$, or Affordable Learning $olutions, is an initiative by the CSU Chancellor’s office to promote the use of low- or no-cost course materials to reduce the financial burden on students. This resource guide includes free materials for K-12 as well as university level courses. Using OER give you the freedom to design your course with materials you think are most relevant for your students and allows you to include more diverse voices than typically gets into traditional publications for classrooms.
California Educators Together High-Quality and Relevant Professional Learning, Lesson Plans, and Events for California’s Modern Educator. California Educators Together is a community of practice designed to provide educators, administrators, specialists, and state program leads a common space to communicate, share strategies, and access resources.
OER Commons ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of kindergarten through high school resources and full courses to help leverage OER for your students. Whether you are looking for resources your students can complete at home, or dynamic content to inspire your own teaching and learning practice, this hub, organized by education level, subject, and content provider will help you discover the resources you need. rested in accessing OER Commons from your LMS via an LTI integration. Please fill out and submit the form here.

Current Textbook Resources for Local School Districts

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)

For the list of textbooks go here: https://achieve.lausd.net/Page/1423, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Adopted and Approved Instructional Materials dropdown menu. There you will see the three lists for elementary, middle, and high school.

Coming to CSUN in 2026: CDE Learning Resource Display Center.

CDE has Learning Resource Display Centers (LRDC) around California for the public and educators to access considered and adopted textbooks for use in K-12 education. We will become an adopted-only LRDC in 2026 for the math textbook adoption. Until then, the nearest LRDC is at the Ventura County Office of Education (VCOE) or at the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools warehouse.

Other Textbook Resources

Carnegie Learning Sample Center
Our 24/7 digital Sample Center contains everything you need for a full and detailed review of our high-quality learning and teaching resources for K-12 math, ELA, and world languages. Requires registration to review materials
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Includes CDE adopted textbooks: Mirrors & Windows: Connecting with Literature;