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, Pam and Jacob answer a listener question about setting norms for the workshop, as it connects to setting up Craft and Draft […]
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#52 Our First 3 Days
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. The first week of the 2021-2022 school year is behind us! Jacob and Pam reflect on their first week of school. Now they teach […]
#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
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 […]
#34 Bridging Reading and Writing in Workshop
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. In this episode, Jacob shares how he is still confident and going strong at the end of the school year. He explains that he […]
#29 The Feedback Loop
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. When teachers open up their lessons by offering choices to their students the feedback loop is altered and their feedback opportunities increase. Students grow […]
#24 The Waxing and Waning of Workshop
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 year has moved at a rapid pace. School rounds the last few curves in the road before it reaches the last stretch of […]
#21 Publishing, Assessing, and Measuring Growth
Welcome to the Craft & Draft podcast with Jacob Chastain and Pam Ochoa! We love talking about our craft! We believe that the Reading and Writing Workshop grows our students as thinkers, readers, and writers. We face the daily challenges of the classroom and our discussions help us, so we want to share them with […]
#20 The Draftbook
Welcome back to Craft and Draft podcast with Jacob Chastain and Pam Ochoa. Last week they shared how they used the CRAFTBOOK. As promised, this week they sit down and discuss the details of the DRAFTBOOK. The DRAFTBOOK empowers our students to become writers. We share how the students utilize it during their writing process. […]
#19 The Craftbook
Welcome back everyone, to the Craft & Draft Podcast! After a nice full list of episodes detailing Pam and Jacob’s philosophy, background, and focus in their classrooms, they figured it was about time to sit down and give some solid details on what their Craftbooks and Draftbooks are. Today we are talking CRAFTBOOKS, and next […]