#130 Choice: Why It’s a Must

#130 Choice: Why It’s a Must

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.  It seems ‘choice’ is under attack in our classrooms. Workshop teachers are finding themselves defending why they allow students freedom to choose their books to […]

#129 Standards and Self-Selected Texts

#129 Standards and Self-Selected Texts

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 answer a question about how to be standard focused when students read a variety of self selected texts. How […]

#128 Working with a Co-Teacher in Workshop

#128 Working with a Co-Teacher in Workshop

This is a bonus episode that was previously only available on the Craft & Draft Patreon Page. If you want more episodes like this, or want access to exclusive videos and online recorded and live PD sessions, join here.  Welcome everyone to the Craft & Draft podcast! We are so excited to bring you what […]

#127 The First 5 Minutes of Your Lesson

#127 The First 5 Minutes of Your 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 dive deeper into the mini-lesson.  Jacob asked Pam how she knows the mini-lesson is working.  She has a little […]