This website is filled with many resources, including strategies, standards, mentor texts, rubrics, samples, and graphic organizers. If you find the site to be a bit overwhelming, don't know where to begin with the site, or if you just want to spend more time working with the resources to help you build curriculum, please sign up for our upcoming workshops.
If you are looking to add more primary sources into your teaching repertoire, this is an excellent resource. It has lesson plans, activities, and resources, as well as links to the Library of Congress pages.
This site seems to be a place to get leveled articles and lessons for all grade levels for free. I have not spent a lot of time with this site yet, but it seems to be worth looking at. If you have been using NewsELA and became frustrated when the free trial was over, this seems to be a good alternative.
This site has a ton of great resources to incorporate 21st-century learning in the classroom. You can filter your search by grade, content, type of device being used, and many other indicators.
This is an excellent professional development website. There are webinars, lessons, and resources for moving technology and 21st-century learning into your classroom. There is an annual fee, but they often have freebies, and if you sign in, they will send you invitations to free webinars. If you have ever considered "flipping" your classroom, this is the place for you.
The Illinois State Board of Education has put together some excellent resources in what they call Shift Kits (so you can shift to the new standards). They are pretty great, with many good strategies and lessons. It can be somewhat difficult to locate these, however, so this link will take you right to that page.
This is a terrific resource that includes lesson ideas and videos of teachers actually implementing them in the classroom. There are professional development videos as well, including many that show PLC's working with student growth and assessments.