Craft & Draft
By Jacob Chastain & Pam Ochoa
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Join top educator host and creator of the Teach Me, Teacher podcast, Jacob Chastain, and his colleague and Abydos trainer, Pam Ochoa, as they share their expertise on the workshop model within the secondary classroom. Using their versatile Craft & Draft approach to reading-writing workshop as their foundation for creating a powerful secondary workshop, each episode will include deep discussions on the nuances of workshop teaching, fostering authentic readers and writers, and creating an equitable standards-based classroom.
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#192 Closing the Year Strong
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May 11, 2024 |
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#191 How to Study Literature
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May 04, 2024 |
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#190 Schools Ruin Poetry
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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#189 What is an Assignment?
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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#188 How Much Do We Know About American Teachers?
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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#187 What is College Readiness?
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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#186 It’s That Time of Year: To Stay or To Quit
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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#185 Test-Prep Strategies! (Patreon Episode)
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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#184 Reading or Writing: What Matters Most?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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#183 Does it Matter if Teachers Teach a Love for Reading?
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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#182 Essays and Possibilities
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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#181 Why Two Notebooks?
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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#180 We Talk About Stress
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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#179 This is What Schools Need to be Successful
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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#178 Filler Lessons for the Unexpected Day
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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#177 Will Programs Replace Teachers?
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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#176 GT and STAAR Writing HELP
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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#175 Set-up (literally) the Classroom for Success
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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#174 From Memories to Empowered Writers
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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#173 From Ancient Discoveries to Keeping Kids Learning
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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#172 The Importance of a Personal Story (pt.2)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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#171 The Importance of a Personal Story
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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#170 A Journal System that WORKS (Tutorial)
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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#169 Capturing Where We’ve Been LIVE (pt.2)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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#168 Capturing Where We’ve Been LIVE (pt.1)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Join Craft & Draft LIVE All Week to Rejuvenate Your Workshop
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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#167 Nuances, Complexities, Science of Reading, and More
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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#166 Building Reading Culture in your Classroom (pt.2)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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#165 Building Writing Culture in your Classroom (pt.1)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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#164 Checkpoints for Progress (pt.2)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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#163 Checkpoints for Progress (pt.1)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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#162 When Planning in Groups Goes Right (pt.2)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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#161 When Planning in Groups Goes Wrong (pt.1)
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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#160 Getting Buy in from Students in Reading (Listener Question)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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#159 Are You Coachable?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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# 158 Solving Time Management with ChatGPT
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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#157 Libraries Are Essential
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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#156 Teaching with LIMITED Resources
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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#155 Making the Curriculum Fit and Flow Through Workshop
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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#154 Workshopping the Science of Reading (Bonus Episode)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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#153 Activating Writers with Mentor Texts (Bonus Video)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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#152 New School Year… New Us?
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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#151 Workshop and Special Needs Students
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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#150 Working with Difficult Colleagues (pt.2)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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#149 A Day in the Life of a Workshop Teacher (Part 1)
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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#148 Annotation is to Reading as Diagramming is to Grammar
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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#147 Plagiarism: What Can Teachers Do About It?
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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#146 We Rate ChatGPT Lessons for English Language Arts
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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#145 Artificial Intelligence is Here to Stay
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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#144 The Art of Presentation
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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#143 On Endings… and Beginnings
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May 26, 2023 |
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#142 PD Books, Our Book, and Reading Conferences Q&A
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May 20, 2023 |
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#141 Helping Students Build Confidence
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May 12, 2023 |
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#140 When We Face Difficult Times
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May 08, 2023 |
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#139 The Interview: What Makes It Great!
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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#138 Keeping the Focus on the Students
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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#137 Lessons Through Skills, Genres, or Themes?
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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#136 Are Stations or Centers Workshop?
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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#135 Creating Context (and all the musings)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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#134 Curb Cheating in the Classroom
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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#133 Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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#132 Instructional Rounds
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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#131 The Animosity Growing Towards Workshop Teaching
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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#130 Choice: Why It’s a Must
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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#129 Standards and Self-Selected Texts
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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#128 Working with a Co-Teacher in Workshop
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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#127 The First 5 Minutes of Your Lesson
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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#126 How to Nail Your Teacher Observation This Year
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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#125 What Data Matters?
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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#124 Strategies to Increase Engagement in Workshop
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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#123 What Makes a Robust Literacy Program?
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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#122 Our Top 5 Teacher Moments of 2022
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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#121 One Lesson a Day to Cover Everything?
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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#120 One Notebook for a Writing Workshop Class
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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#119 The STAAR Short Constructed Response Strategies
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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#118 Reading Conferences and…
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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#117 That’s Not Good Teaching!
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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#116 Keeping Kids Engaged at This Time of Year
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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#115 It’s Not How You Start, It’s How You Finish
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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#114 Fostering Creativity in Workshop Teaching
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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#113 Starting with the Standard
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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#112 How Grade-centric is Your Class?
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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#111 What is Writing in Writing Workshop?
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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#110 Managing Independent Work Time
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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#109 Honeymoon is Over
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#108 Lesson Planning Woes
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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#107 The Value in Cold Writes
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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#106 Grammar Matters
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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#105 Vocabulary to Publishing
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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#104 Continuing the Workshop Journey
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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#103 We Answer ALL the Questions—Part 2
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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#102 We Answer ALL the Questions: A Listener Joins Us!
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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#101 Jacob is an Assistant Principal, What Now?
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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#100 Your First Day of Workshop (and BEYOND!)
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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#99 Why The Workshop Process Works
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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#98 Keeping Authentic Learning the Priority
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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#97 Doors Open to Kids who Independently Read
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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#96 Breaking Down State Scores and More
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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#95 Tech, Cross-curricular, and Workshop Questions Answered!
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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#94 Thinking Twice Before Using Outside Resources
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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#93 Advocating for Kids and Yourself
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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#92 Learning from Success
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#91 The Writing on the Wall and Looping
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May 27, 2022 |
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#90 Saying Goodbye
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May 20, 2022 |
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#89 What Makes a Book Literature?
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May 13, 2022 |
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#88 A Time for Reflection
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May 06, 2022 |
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#87 Lesson Walkthrough with Pam Ochoa
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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#86 Discussing the Latest NCTE Position Statement Part 2
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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#85 Discussing the Latest NCTE Position Statement
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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#84 How to Build Background Knowledge
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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#83 Authentic Publishing Goals
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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#82 Balancing Demands of Teaching with Workshop
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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#81 Celebrating Students
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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#80 When the Product Hijacks the Lesson
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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#79 Questions and Writefully Empowered is HERE!
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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#78 When Students Write About Trauma
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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#77 Cultivate a Culture of Freedom in Workshop
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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#76 MORE Craft & Draft is Here!
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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#75 Why Are Educators Quitting?
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#74 Before the Writing Begins
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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#73 Disrupted Plans…Thanks, Covid
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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#72 Balancing Direct Instruction with Facilitation
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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#71 Strategy or Craft? Listener Question Answered!
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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#70 How is Craft & Draft Going for Us This Year?
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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#69 The Causes and Cures to Apathy
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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#68 Motivation—A Secret Sauce
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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#67 Tutorials, Remediation, and Other Trinkets
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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#66 We Discuss Book Bans and Censorship
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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#65 Class Novels within the Craft & Draft Model
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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#64 Thankful
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#63 Students are JUST Reading?!
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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#62 Where Do We Get Our Lessons?
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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#61 Publishing
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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#60 Weaving Reading and Writing Together
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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#59 Keeping Control While Giving Choice
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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#58 Scheduling Your Workshop
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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#57 Establishing Purpose to Increase Learning
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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#56 Hard Times
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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#55 Finding and Cultivating Student Voice
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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#54 Expanding Workshop BEYOND the Classroom
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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#53 Resistors
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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#52 Our First 3 Days
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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#51 Discussing the Art and Science of Teaching
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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#50 C&D Tutorial Questions Answered
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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#49 How to do Craft & Draft – Tutorial
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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#48 Are There Non-Negotiables of Reading and Writing Workshop?
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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#47 Is Freedom LESS Rigorous?
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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#46 Waiting for Change
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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#45 Should You Teach Grammar That Way?
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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#44 Why is it Hard for Teachers to Take Breaks?
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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#43 Should Students Fail? Listener Question Answered!
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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#42 That Summer PD Vibe
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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#41 Diverse Books for a Diverse Classroom (BOY pt.2)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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#40 Listener Question — How to Begin Next Year (pt.1)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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#39 Differentiation in Workshop
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May 28, 2021 |
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#38 An Ending to Remember
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May 21, 2021 |
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#37 The Quickwrite Handbook and Beyond
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May 14, 2021 |
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#36 We Love Teaching Poetry
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May 07, 2021 |
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#35 Change is Coming to Craft & Draft
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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#34 Bridging Reading and Writing in Workshop
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#33 What Makes a Great Team?
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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#32 What Should Professional Development Look Like?
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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#31 The Writer’s Diet
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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#30 High Stakes Tests vs Teaching
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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#29 The Feedback Loop
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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#28 A Novel Approach
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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#27 Grammar — Meaning — Music
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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#26 A Little Reading Nudge
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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#25 Nuts & Bolts of Choice in Writing (Listener Question)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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#24 The Waxing and Waning of Workshop
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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#23 Laura Robb: Entering the Writing Life
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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#22 Whole Group Novel or Literature Circles?
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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#21 Publishing, Assessing, and Measuring Growth
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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#20 The Draftbook
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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#19 The Craftbook
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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#18 More Programs, More Problems (Listener Q&A)
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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#17 Top PD Books to Buy With Those Gift Cards
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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#16 Unstick the Stuck Writer
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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#15 Cultivating Creativity
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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#14 Culture of the Reading Workshop
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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#13 Culture of the Writing Workshop
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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#12 The Art of Letting Go
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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#11 When Workshop Needs Some Spice
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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#10 The Anatomy of a Great Reading and Writing Conference
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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#9 Conferring is the Heart of Our Workshop
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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#8 Planning to Teach Critique to 7th Graders
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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#7 Lesson Planning to Teach Informational Text
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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#6 Oral Storytelling and the Brain
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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#5 The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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#4 The Scarlet Ibis
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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#3 Paper is Still King
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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#2 Possibilities and Surprises with Online Teaching!
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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#1 Our Beliefs About Literacy
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Aug 16, 2020 |