Teacher Curriculum Center Resources

The materials in the TCC collection include books, kits, and other items to support K-12 instruction. Our TCC book collections includes teacher and student edition textbooks, workbooks, curriculum guides, and lesson planning resources. Supplemental sources such as "idea" books for lesson planning and classroom strategies with diverse student populations are also an integral part of the collection.

Our kit collection includes hands on materials to bring lessons to life in the classroom such as games, science models, puppets (and a puppet stage), manipulatives for math and language development, and social-emotional learning tools. In addition to books and kits, we have big books for story time and sets of pictures, art, maps, and posters to bring your classroom to life and guide your students.

All TCC materials are searchable in OneSearch and circulate under regular University Library borrowing rules.

In addition, the TCC/Music & Media Department has an A/V equipment area for the preview of TCC materials and/or the creation of instructional materials. This area includes collaborative/group tables, DVD/VHS players, and letter and paper cutters. This equipment is available free of charge for in-house use whenever the TCC/Music & Media Department is open.

The University Library's collection of young adult/children's fiction and non-fiction, the Sharon Fogarty Juvenile Collection, is also housed just outside the TCC, but is serviced by the TCC staff. This collection includes national award-winning titles as well as a representative collection of various genres fliterature written for K-12 audiences. The Fogarty collection is divided into four subsections: YA fiction, middle grade fiction, elementary fiction, and K-12 nonfiction. These materials are also searchable in OneSearch and circulate like other Library materials.

Finally, the TCC also hosts the Teacher Curriculum Center Digital Resources. This guide contains online resources for K-12 educators such as links to state and national content standards, open education resources, online content and lesson planning tools from other universities and educational non-profits, recommendations for finding primary sources for lessons, and more.

The materials and equipment in the TCC/Music & Media are available for use in-house to the general public and can circulate to currently enrolled CSU students. A valid CSU library card is required for circulation of materials. Anyone in the community may also purchase a TCC community membership to check out TCC/Fogarty collection materials only. For more information about signing up for a TCC community membership, please call the TCC desk.