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 […]
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 when you know your reading workshop is in the zone. Pam touches on when teachers model 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. In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss the impact of the writing workshop on the culture of the classroom as well as the culture […]
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 […]
**A quick note: Jacob had audio issues on this one…Please forgive us for the hum in the episode! It will be fixed! 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 […]
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 think about how we approach conferencing and how to ensure that we get great results from them. We share how […]
Welcome back to Craft & Draft! Today Pam and Jacob are coming together to discuss the heart of their reading and writing workshop—the conference! Both Pam and Jacob treat their conferences as sacred ground these days. It drives their instruction, in the moment teaching, and builds a community of learners who respect each other and […]
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. We are continuing to check over our lesson plans to see what is ahead. We see that in our curriculum our students will need […]
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. Creating lessons is what teachers do, so in this episode planning the next lesson is what we are doing! In the curriculum, Pam is […]
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 […]