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 the spirit of summer, we discuss taking breaks. Pam is about to go on a small vacation after working a three week training, […]

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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. Today, Pam and Jacob are tackling another listener question all about GRADES—not a contentious topic at all… Together, Pam and Jacob address the following […]

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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, are you doing any summer PD?’   Jacob and Pam discuss summer PD and share what they are doing professional development this summer.  In […]

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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. Building equity among readers requires that teachers must introduce students to texts that reflect the diversity in the classroom.  “Literature transforms human experience and […]

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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 It’s now time to think about next year.  A huge question a — How should I set up my workshop? Pam explains the principles […]

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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. Differentiation is expected in the classroom, but often teachers, especially those new to teaching, are told to differentiate without the guidance needed to bring […]

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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. Another year has flown by, but this was no ordinary year! This year Jacob will be saying goodbye to students he has taught during […]

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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 share how they have used quick writes in their classes. They utilize Linda Rief’s The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 […]

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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 talk about how they use poetry in their workshops.  They both discuss how poetry is often undervalued; however, poetry is gold […]

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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.  One constant is true—CHANGE!  In the reading and writing workshop, the change we desire is for our students to transform their thinking through reading […]

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