Center for Educators & Schools
The New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools (CES) is devoted to making all of the Library’s resources accessible and useful for educators. You’ll find programs and services tailored for the educator community, such as book lists, credit-bearing workshops, special access to exhibitions, tips on teaching with primary source materials from our vast research collections, and much more.
Our Mission
The Center for Educators and Schools uses The New York Public Library's resources and collections to ignite curiosity, joy, and a passion for learning within educators, students, and school communities.
Featured Highlights: All-New Resources for Educators
Discover an all-new suite of teaching guides that feature materials from the Library’s circulating and research collections. Find ready-to-use discussion questions and activities, multilingual resources, and much more.
Reading Dangerously: Censorship and the Freedom to Read in 20th-Century America
Access a curriculum guide designed to help teachers support middle and high schoolers in exploring the history of censorship and resistance to gain new insights on current events.
Teaching with the Schomburg Center’s Archives
Discover four all-new curriculum guides on Black history, experience, and culture through the archives and collections at the Schomburg Center.
Vibrant Voices
Explore new books from authors of color with NYPL's Vibrant Voices book list and accompanying teaching tools to help you incorporate culturally responsive titles into your classroom.
Attend Events & Workshops for Educators
Build skills with your community and discover opportunities to learn from industry experts. Join the Center for Educators and Schools for a wide range of programs for educators and librarians, including credit-bearing professional development workshops, author talks, and film screenings.
Teacher Trivia Night
Tues, Jan 21 | 5 PM
All Events
Explore upcoming CES programming!
Watch! In Defense of Teaching Black Studies: Reading, Writing & Justice
Revisit our conversation with Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, pioneering scholar and writer on civil rights, critical race theory, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law.
Teach with NYPL's Primary Sources
Discover curricular materials that leverage the Library’s collections, along with model questions and activities for your students. Plus, find a wide array of guides that explore various themes and can be easily integrated into your teaching.
New! New York City’s Rent Strikers: Jewish Activism & Housing Reform in the Progressive Era
Access a curriculum guide that explores how activism, laws, and reform impacted housing conditions through a selection of historical newspapers.
Plan Branch Visits, Classroom Workshops & Field Trips
Introduce your students to the Library by arranging a visit to an NYPL branch, inviting a librarian to run a classroom workshop, or viewing highlights from our collections in the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures with your students.
Local Branch Visit
Visit an NYPL branch with your students.
Classroom Visit
Invite a librarian to run a classroom workshop.
Exhibition Field Trip
Book a free guided tour to view our exhibitions.
Discover Book Lists, Teaching Tips & More
NYPL's Educator Collection
Discover a specially curated set of professional development books for teachers, library professionals, and parents—online and at select branches.
Reading with Pride
Explore an array of resources centered on historic and contemporary queer picture books, including scholarly essays on LGBTQ+ children’s literature.
Recommendations from NYPL Staff
Find tips on using primary source materials from our collections in the classroom, recent book picks, and other resources for teachers at NYPL.
MyLibraryNYC
Get student and educator access to the unparalleled digital resources of New York City's public library systems, as well as instructional support and professional development opportunities.
Apply for Fellowship Opportunities
Learn About NYPL's Fellowships & Institutes
Find opportunities at NYPL, including the Schomburg Center and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Find Additional Resources
Support Programs & Resources for Educators
Make a Tax-Deductible Gift
By supporting the Center for Educators and Schools, your gift will help us provide free field trips, curriculum guides, and everything in between—and help inspire curiosity, joy, and a passion for learning in school communities.
This work is part of the Library’s overall commitment to our branch patrons and education programs, led by the Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Director of The New York Public Library. Major support for educational programming is provided by Merryl H. and James S. Tisch.
The Center for Educators and Schools is supported in part by a generous grant from the Hearst Foundations.