Craft & Draft

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.  The year is going full blast! The students are comfortable with the classroom, and the honeymoon is over.   In this episode, Jacob and Pam share that this is the part of the year when a workshop may become stagnant. ...

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.  Lesson planning is fun until it becomes an overwhelming task.  Pam and Jacob love to figure out how to plan for authentic learning. When the plan comes together and the students grow, it creates a euphoria few things...

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 Pam and Jacob spend some time discussion what makes good teachers (from the mouths of students), replying to listener comments, and diving into the value of cold writes. They also discuss how different...

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, Pam and Jacob answer a question about how to grade authentic writing with the standard as the core focus. They then dive into the world of grammar instruction, discussing everything from using programs...

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 questions about how to teach vocabulary.  They each share how they use vocabulary strategies, and teach it within the context of reading and writing.  Pam shares a vocabulary book...

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.  Another year has begun! Jacob and Pam spend a bit of time sharing how the new year is going.  Jacob shares how his new journey will be a continuation of the workshop model.  He explains how he is enjoying supporting t...

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. Courtney, a teacher, listener and patron of Craft & Draft, wondered if it would be possible to come onto the show and ask Jacob and Pam questions. They said sure! In this episode Courtney sits down with Jacob and P...

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.  Courtney, a teacher, listener and patron of Craft & Draft, wondered if it would be possible to come onto the show and ask Jacob and Pam questions. They said sure! In this episode Courtney sits down with Jacob and...

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.  One thing is always true about education–each new year brings changes!  This year Jacob and Pam are facing changes, also.   In this episode, Jacob has an announcement to make.  Pam discusses how she handles change yea...

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 had an amazing opportunity to offer a live virtual professional development workshop.  They were able to interact with listeners and patrons.  The workshop covered their lessons for the first five days o...

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.  No matter how many times Jacob and Pam work with students and adults using the process for writing, they are continuously amazed at how it works every time!  It is like magic! In the this episode, Jacob shares how the...

Before we begin, make sure to check out our upcoming training all about setting up your first week of workshop for success! Follow this link for more information: Training! 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 the...

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 discuss reading growth, sustained reading opportunities and how literacy impacts our students.  Pam shares how she implements multiple reading opportunities during the workshop.  She shares a few strateg...

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.  Teaching Reading and Writing is a daunting task. Teachers need not just teach students to read or write, but they need to ensure that each one demonstrates growth each year.  Jacob and Pam discuss reading growth, sust...

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 love answering questions from their patrons!  In this episode, they answer two separate questions:  How do you implement technology into the writing and reading workshop? How do you use the Craft and Dra...

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.  During this episode, Jacob and Pam answer the question: How do teachers decide to pull in outside resources into their reading and writing workshops?  Jacob shares a story from his days of being a literacy coach. He e...

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. Today Pam and Jacob are joining to talk about—what they say is often overlooked in conversations around education—advocating for kids and yourself. Sometimes, you have to take a stand on something. It could be for your...

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 explains how an era is over and how his last day of school went saying goodbye to his students that helped him write his book, Writefully Empowered . Let’s just say that everyone left with tears in their eyes. J...

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 listener’s questions: How do you go about choosing what writing goes on the wall?   Jacob is outstanding at celebrating his writers by covering his wall with their pieces throug...

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 patron’s question: How do you say a proper goodbye? Jacob will be saying goodbye to the students he has looped with from sixth-seventh grade during a tumultuous Covid season.  T...

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, Pam throws off Jacob with an answer to a question he was NOT expecting. This gives way to a lengthy discussion about the value of stories, books, and what makes something “literature.” Defi...

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 realize this is a time for reflecting about the year. It has been a great year!  Pam discusses how she is framing her lessons during this time.  Her students are reading whole class nove...

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 share a lesson that Pam completed in her Reading and Writing workshop using both the Craft and the Draft books. They discuss the lesson and how Pam began by teaching a mini lesson about how to analyze an...

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.  NTCE published their position statement regarding multimodal literacy and its place in the ELAR curriculum. Jacob and Pam discuss the article and their thoughts about how to incorporate the multimodal approach into th...

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. N CTE recently released a position statement on media in English Language Arts . For the unfamiliar, they often release statements like these. Essentially, detailing their beliefs about education, the research behind t...