NYLearns.org was developed in response to the profound need to assist teachers in understanding and applying a standards-based approach to teaching and learning – and in response to the need to deliver resources to teachers in ways that make learning standards meaningful and manageable. NYLearns.org also owes its genesis to the need to bring focused and relevant educational resources to parents and children in an “anytime-anywhere” learning environment.

The overarching thrust of NYLearns.org is to identify, organize and deliver educational resources that are aligned to learning standards. A second major thrust of NYLearns.org is to provide teachers with easy to use and integrated classroom tools that enhance their teaching effectiveness.

NYLearns.org currently houses:

• More than 10,000 teaching and learning resources that are aligned to the New York State learning standards – with alignment down to the performance indicator level.
• Thousands of individual pieces of instructional content developed by New York State teachers.
• A broad cross-section of content from cultural agencies and museums (including many USNY agencies)
• Hundreds of documents from the National Archives, the complete collection of videos from the George Educational Foundation and digital access to the largest private collection of historical documents in the U.S.

Every resource has been aligned to the NYS standard down to the performance indicator level and has been peer-reviewed using the peer-review protocol established by the NYS Academy for Teaching and Learning (NYSATL).