Empower Educators & Engage Students

Teachers and students thrive when they have access to the instructional resources they need to learn and grow. Chicago Public Schools currently partners with Gale to deliver standards-aligned content for elementary, middle, and high school students with Gale In Context instructional resources, including digital content curated to support social studies curricula. 

How can you ensure these instructional resources are used effectively to drive learning outcomes? Discover solutions missing from your school environment that can help improve educator efficiency, bolster teacher confidence, and engage students in additional core subjects.

Equip Educators to Plan, Collaborate & Engage

Give educators a comprehensive solution to plan instruction more efficiently, collaborate with colleagues, and meet the diverse needs of learners. Gale In Context: For Educators is an award-winning instructional solution with built-in lesson plans, assessments, and access to diverse, leveled content across disciplines.

 

How does For Educators support student and educator success?

  • Educators can save time using pre-built lesson plans or curate their own by browsing up-to-date content from your district’s Gale instructional resources.
  • Teachers can use custom assessments to evaluate student understanding, identify learning gaps, and personalize learning with additional scaffolding.
  • Educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction and meet a variety of student needs with age-appropriate and leveled content.
  • Collaboration tools enable educators to share curated course content to work more efficiently and bring continuity to student learning experiences.

Inspire More Confident Educators

Empower your educators with actionable strategies to overcome everyday challenges and grow in their careers. Find effective professional development solutions in Gale eBooks: Professional Learning themed collections.

 

How do Gale eBooks: Professional Learning collections support new and seasoned teachers?

  • Curated eBook collections address relevant educator challenges like new teacher support, teacher burnout, student behavior issues, and closing learning gaps.
  • Gale partners with leading publishers like ASCD, ISTE, and NSTA to provide the latest essential professional development titles.
  • Gale eBooks offers unlimited, simultaneous access for every teacher in your learning community to access titles on any device.

Make More Meaningful Connections in Literature

Help students connect to literature on a deeper level with instructional resources that go beyond ELA textbooks and class novels to enhance learning with engaging multimedia content. Gale In Context: Literature provides videos, images, infographics, and more to give context to literary classics and diverse new texts.

 

How does Gale In Context: Literature help engage students? 

  • Curated topic pages introduce students to much-needed context for literary works with overviews, biographies, essential questions, news articles, and more.
  • Students can explore novels, poetry, graphic novels, and speeches from writers contextualized by primary sources, podcasts, videos, and images.
  • Bookshelf browse paths guide both teachers and students to the materials they need with easy-to-follow portals organized by literary period, genre, or theme.
  • With access to expansive literary context, teachers can offer students more choices to study literature that resonates with them, including diverse perspectives and more-inclusive multicultural narratives.

Want to learn more about how you can help educators and students thrive with digital learning solutions in Chicago Public Schools?