Craft & Draft

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 explore how to keep our students the most important part of our instruction. As we complete our first six weeks, we discuss our planning and how we meet for the needs of our students in this socially distanced world. We recognize how writing is a social act and how we are utilizing strategies to help our students share their writing.

We dive into Jacob’s lesson with the Scarlet Ibis he did recently, as well as Pam’s experience (and many tears) with the story in her past! If you’re wanting to teach it, or are interested in using a shocking text to engage readers in secondary classrooms, this is definitely the episode for you.

To close, we also revisit our portfolios and Jacob shares his plan to make his portfolios a tool that helps students to become reflective writers.

Join us as we share our experiences planning for student centered workshops!                                                                                                                          

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We’re Back in The Classroom!

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 express how excited we are to be back in the classroom! We discuss how we are managing our instruction both on-line and in the classroom, as well as a brainstorming session about how to use portfolios this year. We focus on how we are implementing our Craft & Draft System, and how the system gives the classroom community a tangible way to navigate this new era of teaching. 

We also spend a bit talking about why PAPER is still king, even for kids who are learning online. 

Join us as we delve into the realm of authentic learning where students find their voices and inspire us all (we’re serious… the last 30min of this episode is just us sharing stories about how our students inspired us this last week!)

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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, we discuss our plans for beginning the new year, and how our experience is working out so far. We talk through our ideas about our workshop routines as well as visiting  Book Clubs in a digital world. We also give a shout out to our much loved librarians who support us. 

Teaching has always offered all kinds of surprises, but in today’s world the surprises are at every turn. 

Join us as we explore all the possibilities that may come our way during this adventure we are all on together!

If you missed our first episode, check it out here.

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Welcome everyone to the first episode of the Craft & Draft podcast! We couldn’t be more excited to be here, talking with you about workshop, literacy, writing, reading, and real world teaching. It’s what we love, and if you’re reading this, we assume you love it too! 

In this episode, we dive into our beliefs about literacy and how we use a workshop model approach in the classroom. And because we are teachers in the classrooms of TODAY, we also share our planning on how to keep an authentic, empowering workshop going through our digital systems. Keeping workshop alive in covid era teaching is a challenge, but it is one we feel we can do.

Since this is our first episode, you will also hear a bit about the both of us, and who we are as educators!

All of us are maneuvering through uncharted territory, so join us as we begin a new adventure!

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