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The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | Education Betsy Potash: Education Blogger + Curriculum Designer
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4.9 • 169 Ratings
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This podcast is full of creative teaching strategies, classroom ideas, and inspiration for middle and high school English teachers. Betsy Potash from Spark Creativity presents new ideas for immediate classroom use, making it that much easier for teachers to stay creative in the midst of their busy lives. Show notes and further inspiration await at nowsparkcreativity.com.
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Actionable ABAR Steps in ELA, with Liz Kleinrock
Looking to bring more Antibias Antiracist work into your classroom and curriculum? Liz Kleinrock of Teach and Transform has written a wonderful book to help, and she joins me on the podcast today to share some of the highlights.
In this episode, you'll learn specific strategies for helping make your classroom a place where students can share their identities, have difficult conversations, make mistakes and repair those mistakes, and learn through units that incorporate many voices and perspectives (even if you're stuck with a certain book list).
Find the show notes here: https://nowsparkcreativity.com/2023/03/actionable-abar-steps-in-ela-with-liz-kleinrock.html -
A New ELA Go-To? 15 Ways to use La Literatura de Cordel
This creative spin on classroom decor gives you dozens of options for creative, interactive writing, reading, and arts integration lessons in your ELA classroom. Get inspired with these fifteen fun ideas.
Visit the show notes for all the links and lots of illustrations here.
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Enjoy Teaching Rhetorical Analysis (with these Strategies)
Want to teach rhetorical analysis in a way that's creative, engaging, AND gets the job done? Mix and match these fun strategies to suit your needs.
Find the show notes here: https://nowsparkcreativity.com/2023/02/enjoy-teaching-rhetorical-analysis-with-these-strategies.html -
Celebrating Black Authors, Artists, & Activists in ELA
Want to showcase Black authors, poets, artists and activists in your ELA classroom? Celebrate Black History Month all year long with these ideas.
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6 Wonderful Ways you can use Graphic Novels
Try using graphic novels to create powerful reading ladders, launch literature circles, help make the classics accessible, and more!
Tune in to this podcast episode for six helpful perspectives on how the graphic novel can ignite engagement in ELA.
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How to Host a Graphic Novel Book Tasting
Want to introduce your ELA students to the creative joys of graphic novels? Find out how to run a quick and productive book tasting to help introduce them to the genre.
Get book recommendations, a digital bookshelf template, the book tasting takeaways sheet, and more in the show notes at nowsparkcreativity.com.
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Customer Reviews
Such great, applicable ideas!
Betsy has such a creative approach to thinking through how to get kids engaged in really rigorous and interesting content and activities. As a former English teacher, I connect with Betsy’s passion for exciting ELA lessons, and as a principal now, I love how I can help teachers apply her ideas for engagement into various subject areas. This podcast is a “go-to” when you need to spark joy and creativity in any classroom!
Wonderful Ideas
Betsy has packed each episode with numerous creative ideas for teaching! I have used so many of them in my classroom, and my students always love them. Thank you for everything!
Episode 150 is a keeper!
I will be listening again and again to mine this 150th episode for the gems it holds for my students and this teacher. Betsy led Penny Kittle through a series of master teacher lessons in less than an hour. So inspiring!
Betsy, thank you for bringing so many rich thoughts and practices to us in every episode.
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