Records include a plan with the division's objectives for 2005/06; a set of application guidelines for the Student Success Initiative, which funded small capital projects related to Career and Technology Studies programs; the School Improvement Reporting Policy and Framework; and a budget and financial statements from the Sahtu Divisional Education Council with related correspondence.

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).

The fonds consists of yearbooks from St. Patrick's High School.

This accession consists of two yearbooks from the 1985-1986 and 1986-1987 school years. They contain messages and individual photographs of staff and students grades 7-12, as well as school organizations, sports teams, and activities.

Records are comprised of 'Franklin's Echo' and 'Echo' yearbooks, created by Sir John Franklin High School students in Yellowknife, dating from 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1971-72, 1974, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989. The accession also includes a government document entitled 'Prospectus: Sir John Franklin and Students' Residence, Akaitcho Hall', dating from 1960. There are also several letters addressed to Mr. Jeske, a former teacher at the school, from former students, largely relating to his role as the Driver Education Instructor.

Records are comprised of a four page newsletter entitled 'Samuel Hearne Photo Album.' The newsletter shows pictures of students in the classroom, sporting events, school band and staff members, and is dated from 1985.

Records consist of one Sir Alexander Mackenzie School yearbook for the 1967-1968 school year. The name Bobby Kadlum is embossed on the lower right corner. The yearbook includes photographs of students in Grade 7 through Grade 12, school athletics, clubs and special events.

This accession consists of one copy of a 1960-61 yearbook from Sir Alexander Mackenzie School in Inuvik. The yearbook has a cover made of cloth with an applique of the letters SAM.

It contains the programme for the musical "Two Hands and For Ever", which was produced and written by Robin Beaumont and Graham Hall in 1979, with music and lyrics by Robin Beaumont. The programme contains short biographical sketches on many of the workers and performers of this musical.

This accession consists of one program from the Sir Alexander Mackenzie High School, grade 12 Senior Awards Program, held in Inuvik on June 3, 1966. It includes a list of students' names.

This accession consists of Volume 1, October 22, 1975, of the Akaitcho Hall newspaper and six editions of "The New John" (Oct. 1975 to Dec. 1975), the student paper of Sir John Franklin School.

The colour slides depict community buildings (schools, churches, hospitals), people, scenery, activities and special events in the following communities: Hay River, Fort Simpson, Fort Norman, Rae, Port Radium, Lac La Martre, Fort Good Hope, Fort Franklin, Fort McPherson, Tuktoyaktuk, Yellowknife, Coppermine, Jean Marie River, Fort Liard, Nahanni region, Aklavik, Fort Resolution, Fort Smith, Fort Providence, Wrigley, Fort Fitzgerald, Arctic Red River, Reindeer Station, Whale Cove, Norman Wells, Iqaluit and Rocher River. In addition, 19 black and white photographs show children and housing conditions in Yellowknife and on Latham Island in 1969. There are also several images of Rae that portray people, the church, Treaty time and Chief Susie Bruneau. The majority of the films were produced by the Government of the Northwest Territories for different departments; the subject matter of the films deal with Prohibition in the North, education, the Mackenzie Bridge and life in the North.

Records are comprised of the first issue (volume 1 number1) of a 1972 newsletter, "Think News", which was published by students and staff at the Gordon Robertson Education Centre. The newsletter contains items of news about students at the school. It also contains stories, letters to the editor, and some news pertaining to the community.

Records include an evaluation of the NWT Literacy Strategy, a funding agreement for the construction of a francophone school in Hay River, and agreements related to scholarship and bursary programs for post-secondary students.

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.

Records include chronos generated by the offices of Jackson Lafferty as Minister of Education, Culture and Employment; Dan Daniels as Deputy Minister (January to May); Gloria Iatridis as Acting Deputy Minister (May to August); and Gabriela Eggenhofer as Deputy Minister (September to December).

This accession consists of four programmes for Christmas concerts produced by the students of the Federal Day School in Nahanni Butte. The programmes are for the 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966 concerts. They contain Christmas carol sheets and the text from plays produced by the students during the concert.