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Records include daily school attendance registers from the elementary and secondary school grades at St. Patrick's Separate School in Yellowknife (1953-1970) and from Sir John Franklin High School (1959-1960, 1961-1963, 1964-1965) in Yellowknife. The information recorded in the registers includes the names of pupils, community of origin, disc, treaty or band numbers, attendance records and the names of the parents. The record of attendance is divided between "Eskimo" (Inuit), "Indian" (Treaty Indians, i.e. Indigenous children registered under the Indian Act) and "Other" (including white children, Dene and Métis children who were not registered under the Indian Act, and any children of other ethnicities).

Records date from 1973-1993 and consisting of published reports, curriculum resources, teaching guides, newsletters, magazines, pamphlets, published anthologies, manuals, education kits, storybooks, workbooks and handbooks created by the department. The material covers a wide range of topics including teaching aides for elementary school children (workbooks, storybooks, teaching guides, kits, etc.), a large collection of Pik magazines, brochures and kits on child abuse, sexual assault and alcohol and drug awareness, apprenticeship brochures, nutrition guides and a children's cookbook, curriculum guides on science, civics, social studies and health, a needs assessment report on alternative programs for special needs, a review of Akaitcho Hall and many aboriginal language storybook readers.

Accession consists of books published by the Department of Education called "Tendi's Canoe" and "Tendi Goes Beaver Snaring." There is also a book of Inuit Legends featuring drawings by Inuk artist Germaine Arnaktauyok. Additionally, there are curricula materials such as "Flora and Fauna of the North" which includes illustrated pictures of animals found in the north accompanied by excerpt /short stories. "A Start in Something New: Welcome to Kindergarten" is curriculum for kindergarten. The accession also includes a booklet of the Dene calendar written in both English and Slavey with illustrations by Dene artist, Don Antoine. There is also a book, "Olympiada" by Saul Landa which features the 1971 Olympiada event among students in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. Additionally, there is a summary of the Social and Housing Education Program in the Mackenzie District in 1969. The accession also consists of territorial government and election procedures of 1974 in the Government and Elections - An Educational Programme.

Photographs depict communities and school facilities across the Northwest Territories, including Fort Smith, Hay River, Fort Simpson, Inuvik, Yellowknife, Snowdrift (Lutselke), Pelly Bay, Cambridge Bay, the Keewatin, and Baffin regions.

Records include video of the opening of the Chief Jimmy Bruneau School in Edzo in 1972. The moving images are black and white and have a soundtrack. Featured in the production are Chief Jimmy Bruneau, Jean Chretien, then Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, Commissioner Stuart Hodgson, Deputy Commissioner John Parker, Superintendent of Education B.C. Gillie, and Member of Parliament Bud Orange.

Records include correspondence and meeting minutes regarding an evaluation of the In-Service Training Program, correspondence and publicity materials relating to the promotion of literacy, and agendas, correspondence and reports from the Circumpolar Conference on Literacy held in 1990.

The records consists of files from the Central Registry 70 Block, 72 Block, 73 Block, 75 Block, 77 Block and some quarterly residence returns from Breynat Hall (1969-1970) and Grollier Hall (1972-1974)l. Specifically the files relate to: Education - General, school programs in Detah, Grollier Hall in Inuvik, Continuing and Special Education and some Administrative services reports. There are also audit reports for Grollier Hall from 1971 and 1973 and these reports include staff lists.

The slides depict the following communities: Inuvik (Series 1); Trout Lake (Series 2); Jean Marie River (Series 3); Snare Lake (Series 4); Yellowknife (Series 5); Fort Wrigley (Series 6); Rae Edzo (Series 7); Tuktoyaktuk (Series 8); Tungsten (Series 9); Fort Franklin (Series 10); Coral Harbour (Series 11); Pelly Bay (Series 12); Coppermine (Series 13); Pine Point (Series 14); and Hay River (Series 15). The images are dated between 1980-1985. In addition, there are 80 slides with an accompanying audiocassette and manual from a unit entitled "Our Students, Our Future: Shaping Education in the NWT" (Series 16). This unit was developed in 1990 and included images that depicted students and education related activities in the Northwest Territories. A manual and audiocassette, produced by the Student Support Division, to help assist in the slide presentation is included with this accession. There is also 1 cm of textual material consisting of descriptions for the slide presentations on Pelly Bay and Yellowknife.

These records, dated between 1968-1978, come from the Central Registry and were generated by the Director of Education (70 block), School Services (73 block) and Continuing and Special Education (75 block). The records relate to pupil residences, student hostels, teacher education programs, as well as adult vocational training centres and courses. There are Quarterly Returns for Breynat Hall, Lapointe Hall, Grollier Hall, Stringer Hall, Fleming Hall and Chief Jimmy Bruneau that date from 1969-1974.

The records were created by various divisions of the Department of Education.

Records include a 1972 Survey of Education in the Northwest Territories; a 1973 handbook for curriculum development entitled "Learning in the Middle Years" produced by the Programme Development Division; a handbook for curriculum development entitled "Elementary Education in the Northwest Territories" produced by the Curriculum Division; and a resource book on consumer education and money management classes entitled "The Northern Dollar: Handbook for Basic Money Management" produced by the Education Programs and Evaluation Division.