#68 Motivation—A Secret Sauce

#68 Motivation—A Secret Sauce

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. Motivation has maintained a primary topic in education for years. Motivating students takes practice and a deep understanding of their students interests, understanding and skills. […]

#66 We Discuss Book Bans and Censorship

#66 We Discuss Book Bans and Censorship

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. Censorship impacts all parts of our society. Because it is being heavily mentioned and litigated presently,  teachers find it difficult to know what books to […]

#64 Thankful

#64 Thankful

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. Thanksgiving Break is next week, so Jacob and Pam have decided to share why they are thankful.     Pam shares how much she enjoys teaching at […]

#56 Hard Times

#56 Hard Times

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. Teachers have good days and bad days. When our days go different than planned, we realize we need to reset. We reset our mind-set, our […]

#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 […]

#51 Discussing the Art and Science of Teaching

#51 Discussing the Art and Science of Teaching

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. Coming off of two episodes about Craft & Draft nuts and bolts, we wanted to take a more philosophical approach this week. As our […]

#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 […]

#47 Is Freedom LESS Rigorous?

#47 Is Freedom LESS Rigorous?

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. How does freedom to learn in the classroom impact rigor? Jacob and Pam think about this question and begin their discussion by defining rigor. […]

#46 Waiting for Change

#46 Waiting for Change

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. Summer is a time to wait and see what will change. Teachers leave for new adventures, new teachers need to be hired, but leadership […]

#45 Should You Teach Grammar That Way?

#45 Should You Teach Grammar That Way?

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. Today, we are discussing one of the HOT BUTTON issues of English teaching—grammar, and how it should be taught. In this episode, Pam states […]