#214 Receiving Feedback and Advocating for Workshop

#214 Receiving Feedback and Advocating for 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.  In this episode, Jacob and Pam answer a listener’s question regarding how to advocate for a workshop model in a culture of high stakes test […]

#213 Starting Units and Poetry (Q&A)

#213 Starting Units and Poetry (Q&A)

Hello everyone! Bonus episode 2 is here for you to enjoy! It’s a full hour of workshop talk + we addressed a few questions you submitted. Below are the questions we tackle in this one. Thank you for supporting the show! Alisha’s Question I’d love to hear about how you start your 6 weeks units. […]

#207 Workshop in a Boxed Curriculum

#207 Workshop in a Boxed Curriculum

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 listener’s question regarding how to teach when the district implements a boxed reading curriculum. Jacob suggests that […]

#204 The Dos of Starting Workshop

#204 The Dos of Starting 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.  The new school year is around the corner for many teachers.  Creating a strong and healthy Reading and Writing Workshop for students begins on the […]

#193 How to Get an English Teaching Job

#193 How to Get an English Teaching Job

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’s interview time!  Interviews are often scarry, but they do not need to be.  In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss the interview process. Pam […]

#188 How Much Do We Know About American Teachers?

#188 How Much Do We Know About American Teachers?

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 quiz straight from Education Weekly.  The quiz asks questions from teacher salary, to teacher PD preferences.   The […]

#178 Filler Lessons for the Unexpected Day

#178 Filler Lessons for the Unexpected Day

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. This episode was previously unreleased on FREE feeds and was only available for our Patreon supporters. If you want more episodes like this and more […]

# 158 Solving Time Management with ChatGPT

# 158 Solving Time Management with ChatGPT

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.  Juggling the multiple obligations, necessary planning, PLC meetings,  daily personal situations, and many other necessary tasks, managing time seems impossible. No matter how one sums […]

#156 Teaching with LIMITED Resources

#156 Teaching with LIMITED Resources

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 address how to keep teaching when resources are limited.  They each identify possible reasons for the situation and then […]