Craft & Draft

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.

Craft & Draft is a education podcast hosted by Jacob Chastain & Pam Ochoa, with 234 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jacob Chastain & Pam Ochoa hosts Craft & Draft, a education show with 234 episodes published.

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  Greatest Hits: That Summer PD Vibe!

  May 20, 2025—S0

  <p>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.</p> <p>“Jacob, are you doing any summer PD?’</p> <p>Jacob and Pam discuss summer PD and share what they are doing professional development this summer.  In this episode Jacob shares how he learns new concepts during the summer. Pam will be teaching PD this summer, but she will also be reading books and attending conferences. They concur that summer PD helps them to update and get ready for t...

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  #229 Cheating and A.I. — What Are We To Do?

  May 13, 2025—S0

  <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. </p> <p>In this episode, Jacob and Pam address the issues of student cheating and AI.  Jacob poses the question of whether cheating is a greater problem today than in the past.  </p> <p>Pam shares how she has seen cheating throughout her career and determined that it has always been a large problem.  Jacob explains how technology changes seem to instill fear regarding cheating, such as Google, so, AI is ju...

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  #228 Allow Students to Discover Reading

  Apr 28, 2025—S0

  <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. </p> <p>Allowing students to discover reading needs to be at the forefront of reading instruction!</p> <p>In this episode,  Jacob and Pam discuss how reading changes lives.  Jacob shares how the written word contains the power to impact and inspire thinking, actions, solutions and connections.  Pam shares how reading certain books have caused her to be moved in profound ways.  </p> <p>They both address the school system and ho...

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  #227 Teaching Frustrations: What to Do…

  Apr 14, 2025—S0

  <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. </p> <p>Everyone gets overwhelmed, but what should we do about it…</p> <p>In this episode, Jacob expresses a few of the frustrations that he and teachers are going through during this season. Pam shares some of the frustrations that she has come across during her career.</p> <p>Join Jacob and Pam as they discuss how to deal with a season of frustration.  Maybe there is a ‘silver lining...

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  Greatest Hits: Culture of the Writing Workshop

  Apr 1, 2025—S0

  <p>Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay in an episode. Pam’s new schedule and Jacob’s have conflicted more than normal! We will be back to the regular schedule soon! In the meantime, here is one of our favorites from the early days of the show.</p> <p>In this episode, Jacob and Pam discuss the impact of the writing workshop on the culture of the classroom as well as the culture of the school.</p> <p>Teachers hear all the time that the school culture must change, but how do educators know that the culture has changed for the...

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