#82 Balancing Demands of Teaching with Workshop

#82 Balancing Demands of Teaching with 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 end of the year is over the horizon as we return from spring break. High Stakes testing season is upon us. Deadlines create stressors […]

#81 Celebrating Students

#81 Celebrating Students

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 honor their students when they take time to celebrate their efforts and learning. In this episode, Jacob and Pam focus on how they encourage […]

#80 When the Product Hijacks the Lesson

#80 When the Product Hijacks the Lesson

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 discuss what happens when the product outweighs the content. Much too often teachers assign projects or products that hijack […]

#79 Questions and Writefully Empowered is HERE!

#79 Questions and Writefully Empowered is HERE!

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 shares how her students respond to their self-selected reading.  She offers several ideas to help students to write about their reading.  […]