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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 talk about the importance of story.  Pam attended the Abydos International Writing Trainers’ and Teachers’ conference and she came back with thoughts about listening to our students’ stories.  Pam shares how she listened to one of the keynote speakers, Sayantani Dasguptpa, a middle grade novelist and professor at Columbia University for Narrative Medicine in pediatrics. The speaker shared how she teaches healthcare professionals to listen to their patients’ stories so they may help them more.

Jacob explains how he pays attention to his students when they tell their story.  He discusses how teachers must create moments when students have opportunities to write freely in a safe place, so that they may express themselves without the restriction of a teacher driven assigned writing prompt.

Join Jacob and Pam as they discuss why educators need to pause and listen to the students and learn their stories.  Maybe it will help us help them more, too.

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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 talk about the importance of story.  Pam attended the Abydos International Writing Trainers’ and Teachers’ conference and she came back with thoughts about listening to our students’ stories.  Pam shares how she listened to one of the keynote speakers, Sayantani Dasguptpa, a middle grade novelist and professor at Columbia University for Narrative Medicine in pediatrics. The speaker shared how she teaches healthcare professionals to listen to their patients’ stories so they may help them more.

Jacob explains how he pays attention to his students when they tell their story.  He discusses how teachers must create moments when students have opportunities to write freely in a safe place, so that they may express themselves without the restriction of a teacher driven assigned writing prompt.

Join Jacob and Pam as they discuss why educators need to pause and listen to the students and learn their stories.  Maybe it will help us help them more, too!

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Several of the Craft and Draft listeners have requested more information regarding how to set-up the Craft and Draft Notebook System

They begin with the first page of the Craft Book. Jacob shares how he has his students organize their Craft Book from the table of contents to the individual mini-lessons, and includes how students set goals. Pam discusses how each element enables the teacher to monitor student growth.

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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.

As school moves into the holiday season, many teachers are wondering what they need to do to maintain growth and move the students forward.  In order to move forward, teachers must look back over the semester progress.

They discussed how to look back over the semester and analyze data and other forms of information to determine what teachers need to do next.

Jacob shares how he uses surveys and data points to better understand how his students have grown and where they still need to grow.  Pam explains how she helps the students write reflections regarding their own work.  She also encourages teachers to not panic, and Jacob encourages them to focus on the positive.

Join Jacob and Pam as they capture where we’ve been!

Below was the schedule for this holiday series. If you want access to the exclusive podcasts and the PD session that occurred on the 25th, follow the link provided. 

Jacob and Pam will be podcasting live four days during the week of November 20th (click here to gain exclusive access.)  

Both the Listener support tier and the ListenerPLUS tier will get access to the LIVE recording and get to participate if desired. Only the ListenerPLUS tier will get playback afterwards.

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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.

As school moves into the holiday season, many teachers are wondering what they need to do to maintain growth and move the students forward.  In order to move forward, teachers must look back over the semester progress.

They discussed how to look back over the semester and analyze data and other forms of information to determine what teachers need to do next.

Jacob shares how he uses surveys and data points to better understand how his students have grown and where they still need to grow.  Pam explains how she helps the students write reflections regarding their own work.  She also encourages teachers to not panic, and Jacob encourages them to focus on the positive.

Join Jacob and Pam as they capture where we’ve been!

Below was the schedule for this holiday series. If you want access to the exclusive podcasts and the PD session that occurred on the 25th, follow the link provided. 

Jacob and Pam will be podcasting live four days during the week of November 20th (click here to gain exclusive access.)  

Both the Listener support tier and the ListenerPLUS tier will get access to the LIVE recording and get to participate if desired. Only the ListenerPLUS tier will get playback afterwards.

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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 share how they are thankful for you, our audience! So they want to give back and create some bonus content exclusive to their Patreon listeners.

Jacob and Pam will be podcasting live four days during the week of November 20th (click here to gain exclusive access.)  

Both the Listener support tier and the ListenerPLUS tier will get access to the LIVE recording and get to participate if desired. Only the ListenerPLUS tier will get playback afterwards.

Join Jacob and Pam next week and receive a week of workshops to rejuvenate your classroom!

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Support the show on Patreon to get access to bonus episodes, training videos, and so much more. Click here to join our community. 

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.

This episode picks up where last week left off. We just closed our talk on creating reading culture, and veered into a discussion around the nuances of how to teach reading, and why sometimes “research” on reading misses the point and practicality of teaching it.

Enjoy!

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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 discuss how to build a reading culture.  Pam shares how her life as a reader has changed over the years. Jacob also shares how reading was modeled for him throughout his younger years.  

They both discuss the benefits of modeling reading in the reading workshop.  This modeling encourages students naturally to pick up a book to read.  Students must be given time and opportunities to read during school.  Many of the students do not have readers in their home lives, so teachers and other students offer them the opportunity.  Pam also mentions how reading is a social act and reading to later discuss books with friends and other thinkers brings about a desire to read as well.

Pam and Jacob complete their discourse with an article that promotes a multi-approach in the classroom.

Join Jacob and Pam as they consider the reading community in the classroom!

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Support the show on Patreon to get access to bonus episodes, training videos, and so much more. Click here to join our community. 

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 why it is important to build a writing and reading culture in your workshop. Jacob shares how Stephen King’s book On Writing helped him understand how to build a writing culture.  He explains how students must understand how to get their words on the page, read other authors, and help student writers think about their own writing choices.

Pam shares how she builds a writing culture by creating moments where students share their writing with each other. The students are given opportunities to offer feedback and use that feedback to revise their writing.

Join Jacob and Pam as they consider the writing and reading community in the classroom!

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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.

How do you know your students are progressing before the final assessment?

In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss how they check for progress during the learning process to ensure that students are learning what you expect them to learn.  Pam shares how she moves around the room to look for specific evidence for mastering the standard.  She discusses how she listens to the students during the lessons as well as during conferences for a depth of knowledge that was not there before.

Jacob discusses how it is important to have checks within the lesson that occurs before data driven check occurs; however, collecting data on specific aspects of the learning process creates a stronger checkpoint.  He also explains that the teacher needs to predetermine the expected standard or learning goal before the lesson is taught, so the checkpoint appropriately matches the desired outcome.

Join Jacob and Pam as they navigate their way through possible checkpoints for progress during the learning process as well as through a little bit of life.

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