#152 New School Year… New Us?

#152 New School Year… New Us?

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  August is here and the new school year is around the corner!  In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss how the new year brings new […]

#151 Workshop and Special Needs Students

#151 Workshop and Special Needs Students

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  In this episode, Jacob and Pam explore how reading and writing workshop enable teachers to comply with the accommodations and modifications of their special needs […]

#149 A Day in the Life of a Workshop Teacher (Part 1)

#149 A Day in the Life of a Workshop Teacher (Part 1)

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  In this two part episode, Jacob and Pam answer a question about the day in the life of a workshop teacher’s classroom during part one.  […]

#148 Annotation is to Reading as Diagramming is to Grammar

#148 Annotation is to Reading as Diagramming is to Grammar

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  Should Jacob buy a new car? If so, what should he buy?  Jacob and Pam discuss such questions, but most of all they discuss the […]

#146 We Rate ChatGPT Lessons for English Language Arts

#146 We Rate ChatGPT Lessons for English Language Arts

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  In this episode, Jacob and Pam take a look at GPTChat and try out some lesson ideas. Jacob queries Pam on how she used it […]

#141 Helping Students Build Confidence

#141 Helping Students Build Confidence

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss how to help students build their confidence.  Students who struggle throughout school often shut down.  When this happens, […]

#137 Lessons Through Skills, Genres, or Themes?

#137 Lessons Through Skills, Genres, or Themes?

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  During a high stakes season, Pam is wondering what would be best: base her lessons on skills, genres, or themes.  Curriculum will follow one of […]

#131 The Animosity Growing Towards Workshop Teaching

#131 The Animosity Growing Towards Workshop Teaching

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. First off in this episode, Pam asks Jacob about his puppy. Then Jacob tells a goat story… And then the duo go off on a […]

#130 Choice: Why It’s a Must

#130 Choice: Why It’s a Must

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  It seems ‘choice’ is under attack in our classrooms. Workshop teachers are finding themselves defending why they allow students freedom to choose their books to […]

#129 Standards and Self-Selected Texts

#129 Standards and Self-Selected Texts

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching.  In this episode, Jacob and Pam answer a question about how to be standard focused when students read a variety of self selected texts. How […]