Free software, including apps that are being temporarily offered for free, during social distancing/remote learning efforts:
http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/

Similar to the Common Core, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education has published College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education: https://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/CCRStandardsAdultEd.pdf

I found Purdue OWL's article on essay papers, especially links to the four main types of essays, to be helpful in creating an essay lesson. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/1/

I've used the Purdue OWL site for years, to look up questions about citations and references. I learned recently that they also have a collection of helpful videos (vidcasts): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/948/1/

Have you checked out the Boise State University Career Center's page: Skills Critical for Employability?
https://career.boisestate.edu/makecollegecount/skills-critical-employability/
Not only is it a resource for our own professional development as BSU students, it's also a resource for our teaching practice when we are trying to determine the best ways to teach our students employability skills.

If anyone uses Lynda.com tutorials for yourself or with your students, it's free if your local library is participating in their free library program. Where I live, in Colorado, any state resident can get a free Lynda.com subscription through the Denver Public Library system, and lots of other towns in Colorado also have their libraries participating. Here's a press release about it: https://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4063

If anyone uses Adobe software with K-12 kids, they recently dropped their educational rate for those grades. Here is an article about it. I don't have kids in K-12, either my own or students, so I haven't explored it fully, but it might be worth investigating if you are a K-12 teacher or if you have kids in those grades:
https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-bolsters-commitment-k12-schools-new-creative-cloud-offerings-investment-professional-development/

Anyone else in Colorado? This recent Colorado Commission on Higher Education report revisits goals set in 2012 with an update on how the state has progressed on the four goals, despite the challenge, "Colorado continues to rank lowest among the states in per-student funding, resulting in the cost of education being increasingly shifted to students through higher tuition."

-Increase credential completion
-Erase equity gaps
-Improve student success
-Invest in affordability and innovation

https://highered.colorado.gov/Publications/CDHE-Master-Plan-2017.pdf

My work colleagues and I are very interested in the findings of the authors of "The Future of Skills - Employment in 2030," a report that maps out how employment trends are predicted to change, and the implications for how the needed skills will change along with employment opportunities, in the next 10+ years.
https://futureskills.pearson.com/
https://futureskills.pearson.com/research/#/downloads

I enjoyed this brief article (with an accompanying report) about a study of online enrollment numbers:
https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/news_item/report-one-four-students-enrolled-online-courses/
I hope you find it interesting too!

Hi, I just joined this group. One of my go-to sites lately has been this one: http://www.p21.org/our-work/4cs-research-series
There is a lot of talk lately in my work circle about the 4Cs: Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Creativity, and Communication, and they are nicely packaged together in this site.