#65 Class Novels within the Craft & Draft Model

#65 Class Novels within the Craft & Draft Model

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. Today we are answering a listener question all about class novels within the Craft & Draft model! Do they work? What are ways to manage […]

#63 Students are JUST Reading?!

#63 Students are JUST Reading?!

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. “Why, when I come to your room, are your students just reading?” This is a question that Jacob and Pam have heard over the years […]

#62 Where Do We Get Our Lessons?

#62 Where Do We Get Our Lessons?

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. Today we are talking about where we get our lessons, and how we think through them. As more and more curriculum becomes following specific guides, […]

#60 Weaving Reading and Writing Together

#60 Weaving Reading and Writing Together

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. The podcast opens with a question from the audience all about finding the “go to” resources for workshop, and then Pam and Jacob decide to […]

#59 Keeping Control While Giving Choice

#59 Keeping Control While Giving Choice

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. Giving students choices to select their books and writing pieces often feels like the teacher is giving up his or her control of the classroom. […]

#58 Scheduling Your Workshop

#58 Scheduling Your Workshop

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. All the extra stuff makes scheduling the workshop difficult.  How do you find the sweet spot? Jacob opens the show by sharing the best advice […]

#54 Expanding Workshop BEYOND the Classroom

#54 Expanding Workshop BEYOND the Classroom

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. This week Jacob and Pam respond to a question from a listener regarding how do teachers need to bring their parents into the workshop […]

#53 Resistors

#53 Resistors

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. After 8 days in the new school year, Pam and Jacob are experiencing what they experience most years—resistor students. These students often avoid reading […]

#50 C&D Tutorial Questions Answered

#50 C&D Tutorial Questions Answered

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. We have been thrilled this week with all of the feedback we received about our tutorial on the Craft & Draft journals! So many […]

#49 How to do Craft & Draft – Tutorial

#49 How to do Craft & Draft – Tutorial

Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring to you what we love, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. Several of the Craft and Draft listeners have requested more information regarding how to set-up the Craft and Draft Notebook System In this episode […]