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 It’s now time to think about next year. A huge question a — How should I set up my workshop? Pam explains the principles […]
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. Another year has flown by, but this was no ordinary year! This year Jacob will be saying goodbye to students he has taught during […]
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 and Pam share how they have used quick writes in their classes. They utilize Linda Rief’s The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 […]
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. One constant is true—CHANGE! In the reading and writing workshop, the change we desire is for our students to transform their thinking through reading […]
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. Pam reveals that when she was a young high school teacher working in teams was rare. From her experience teachers were competitive and often […]
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. Spring brings blossoms, singing birds, little bunnies, and tests. The testing season places extra stress on students and teachers. Trying to figure out how […]
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 and Pam discuss grammar! Yes, that is right, grammar! They share how they address grammar instruction in their writing 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. Jacob and Pam begin with a conversation about the week. Pam shares how she uses the power of words to excite her students about […]
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Craft & Draft! Last week, Pam and Jacob discussed how to spice up a stale classroom workshop. They pointed out that all workshops stall at times, and that’s ok. They also discussed how trusting the process, trying new model texts, and changing how students publish could lead to exciting […]
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, oral storytelling, and real world teaching. In this episode, we hold nothing back in our DEEP dive into everything English—from the origin of oral stories to how the […]