Craft & Draft

Welcome back to Craft & Draft! Today Pam and Jacob are coming together to discuss the heart of their reading and writing workshop—the conference! Both Pam and Jacob treat their conferences as sacred ground these days. It drives their instruction, in the moment teaching, and builds a community of learners who respect each other and take charge of their daily practice…but it didn’t s...

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.  We are continuing to check over our lesson plans to see what is ahead. We see that in our curriculum our students will need to present a critique of a literary work, film or drama.   Jacob looks over the standards...

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.  Creating lessons is what teachers do, so in this episode planning the next lesson is what we are doing! In the curriculum, Pam is eyeing her plans for non-fiction. Specifically, how to make an engaging unit around...

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, oral storytelling, and real world teaching. In this episode, we hold nothing back in our DEEP dive into everything English—from the origin of oral stories to how the novel is new technology. If you are a word nerd like us, you will find a l...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… and everything in between!  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 look back to our past to help us see how we can balance our teaching during these different and difficult t...

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 soc...

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...

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 wor...

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 clas...