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Consider this list from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, when searching for rich texts to explore with your students. 

This reading list from Common Core CPR will help you create an inquiry unit on creating a sustainable future built around dystopian novels.

From the pages of The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 9-12, comes this list of rich reading examples for narrative and informational text plus links to online lists with dozens of more resources.

This inquiry unit, excerpted from Uncommon Core and built around essential questions addressing Martin Luther King's A Letter from Birmingham Jail, not only develops students' reading and writing skills, but also helps students grapple with important social issues.

Preview videos on text complexity and collaborative reading featured in Fisher & Frey's Close & Critical Reading PD Resource Center. (K-12)

This close reading lesson from Lessons & Units for Closer Reading, Grades K-2, helps students better understand the text; includes Activity Cards.

Use this introduction from The Emotionally Connected Classroom to start your journey toward understanding education’s role in the mental health of students.

This blog post by Bill Adair, based on the same topic of his book The Emotionally Connected Classroom, discusses the growing anxiety epidemic amongst teenagers caused by negative emotions that education must address.

This complimentary excerpt from Leading for Change Through Whole-School Social-Emotional Learning by Jennifer Rogers shines a light on some of the currently most relevant studies about social-emotional learning that you can discuss with stakeholders.

In these figures from Social Skills Success for Students With Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism, you will get discussion samples and exemplars used to instruct listening without interrupting as well as an evaluation rubric. 

This bookmark from The Executive Function Guidebook by Roberta Strosnider and Valerie Sharpe includes questions to be asked about learning and questions to be asked about self-regulation.

This lesson from Learning Challenge Lessons, Secondary English Language Arts will enhance your students’ knowledge and understanding of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, with focuses on characterisation, responsibility and developments in science.