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 […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… and everything in between! 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, we look back to our […]
We’re Back in 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. In this episode, we express how excited we are to be back in the classroom! We discuss how we […]
Welcome everyone to the first episode of the Craft & Draft podcast! We couldn’t be more excited to be here, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. It’s what we love, and if you’re reading this, we assume you love it too! In this episode, we dive into our beliefs […]