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Explore curriculum, learning materials, and digital resources for students, volunteers, and teachers.

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Everything in the library is organized by who you are. Pick the role that fits you.

For students

I am a student

Practice for your citizenship interview, learn English, and get help with Zoom and USCIS. Free, on any phone.

  • Practice your citizenship interview
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For volunteers

I am a volunteer

Everything for a one-on-one citizenship session: the Zoom skills to get ready, a guided tool to run it live, and practice to send home after.

  • Learn the Zoom skills for a live session
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For teachers

I am a teacher

Prepare your materials, run live class activities, and assign practice your students can do on any phone.

  • Turn a worksheet into a web activity or Google Form
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Built in real classrooms.

Every tool here started in a live adult education class. This is what students, volunteers, and teachers actually open.

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Materials from real ESOL and citizenship classes.

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Translanguaging Whiteboard

Write a word in English and show it in your class's languages beside it, on a board you can save and send. Open the whiteboard
The citizenship civics practice open in a phone browser, at the screen where a student chooses a practice mode and a difficulty

Citizenship interview practice

Civics, reading, writing, and the N-400 interview, with audio. Start practice A class grammar activity on a phone: Unit 7, There is or There are, with the first question and two answers to tap

Multilingual English activities

Class worksheets that work on a phone, with help in your language. Open the materials

Most requested The 128 civics questions in English and Spanish, and in 7 more languages

Patina Education is a free adult education library built for students, teachers, and volunteers. Like a true public library, learning resources are searchable and accessible to all who visit this site.

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