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Craft & Draft 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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#198 Chapters 7-8 of The Knowledge Gap (Book Study)
Welcome to Craft & Draft, where we explore the art of teaching and the science of learning. In today’s episode, hosts Pam Ochoa and Jacob Chastain continue their summer book study of “The Knowledge Gap” by Natalie Wexler. Join us as they explore chapters seven and eight in section two, “How We Got Here: The […]
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#197 Chapters 4-6 of The Knowledge Gap (Book Study)
Welcome to Craft & Draft, where we explore the art of teaching and the science of learning. In today’s episode, hosts Pam Ochoa and Jacob Chastain continue their summer book study of “The Knowledge Gap” by Natalie Wexler. Join us as they explore the second three chapters of section one, The history of the Reading […]
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#196 Chapters 1-3 of The Knowledge Gap (Book Study)
Welcome to Craft & Draft, where we explore the art of teaching and the science of learning. In today's episode, hosts Pam Ochoa and Jacob Chastain kick off their summer book study diving into "The Knowledge Gap" by Natalie Wexler.
Join us as we dissect the first three chapters, delving into how reading is often taught in isolation, the limitations of phonics instruction, and the challenges young learners face in engaging with complex content like science and social studies. Pam and Jacob share their insights, questioning the effectiveness of standardized tests and exploring what closing the knowledge gap truly means for educators.
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#195 The Knowledge Gap Book Study (Join Us!)
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 summer on the podcast, Jacob and Pam will discuss the book, “The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System–And How to […]
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#194 Is the Knowledge Gap Real? (Book Study Intro)
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 talk about their idea of what “The Learning Gap” is and whether or not it is real. Jacob looks […]
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#193 How to Get an English Teaching Job
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. It’s interview time! Interviews are often scarry, but they do not need to be. In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss the interview process. Pam […]
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