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.  Technology makes cheating in the classroom easier than ever before!   In this episode, Jacob and Pam talk about cheating and what they do about it. […]

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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 and Pam have noticed that moving into the spring semesters, teachers become overwhelmed with all the demands of teaching.   In this episode, Jacob and […]

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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.  A few episodes ago, Jacob and Pam discussed how to be ready for administrative walkthroughs or observations.  In this episode, they talk about Instructional Rounds! […]

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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. First off in this episode, Pam asks Jacob about his puppy. Then Jacob tells a goat story… And then the duo go off on a […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 Spring; it’s teacher observation time! This time of year can be the most stressful part of teaching.  It is when your administrator says to […]

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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.  Pam has a problem trying to sort out the data that most matters to her Reading and Writing Workshop.  Jacob, who reviews data from a […]

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