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’s interview time! Interviews are often scarry, but they do not need to be. In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss the interview process. Pam […]
lcome 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. Another school year is coming to a close! How can teachers close their year and keep the learning happening in the classroom? In this episode, […]
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 many topics from how to figure out who you people are in a new campus to how to […]
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. Do schools ruin poetry? Often…they do. But why? Poetry is an incredible art form. It can be powerful, insightful, and even humorous. So why does […]
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. ‘What is an assignment?’ seems like a simple question, until it is discussed. In this episode Jacob and Pam dive into the ‘What is an […]
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 take a quiz straight from Education Weekly. The quiz asks questions from teacher salary, to teacher PD preferences. The […]
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. Jacob just took some students to visit a few colleges and universities. The visit propagated the question, “Are schools effectively readying their students for college?” […]
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. Every year in the education world, educators are trying to figure out if they should stay at their school or district or leave. Jacob and […]
In this bonus episode for our Craft and Draft patrons we answer Courtney’s question regarding the test taking season. Jacob shares how he begins broad in his workshop and then narrows his scope as his students approach the test. This approach allows him to create a workshop atmosphere full of exploration, discovery and creativity. Pam […]
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 that the notion, ‘Students can’t read’ is always at the forefront of public conversations these days. So much so writing instruction seems to […]