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The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA

Betsy Potash: ELA

Want to love walking into your ELA classroom each day? Excited about innovative strategies like PBL, escape rooms, hexagonal thinking, sketchnotes, one-pagers, student podcasting, genius hour, and more? Want a thriving choice reading program and a shelf full of compelling diverse texts? You"re in the right place! Here you"ll find interviews with top authors from the ELA field, workshops with strategies you can use in class immediately, and quick tips to ignite your English teacher creativity

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⏰ Camp Creative: Easy Tech for Student Podcasting...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/06/11

It's day two of Camp Creative, and we're exploring the easiest tech options for student podcasting! In today's show, I'll walk you through the best free recording tool I've found (no mic required), the best design tool for podcast covers (free for education purposes!) and the easiest way to put the audio and visuals together in class. Remember, Camp Creative is my favorite event of the year, and I wanted to make sure that no matter how busy you are, you can just pop in some earbuds and follow

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17:04

⏰ Camp Creative: Podcasts as Texts (Limited Time...

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2024/06/10

It's day two of Camp Creative, and we're diving into Podcasts as Texts! In today's show, I'll walk you through some of my favorite shows for class, listening activities to help kids focus, and the free resources waiting in today's camp materials (including the podcast clubs curriculum!) Remember, Camp Creative is my favorite event of the year, and I wanted to make sure that no matter how busy you are, you can just pop in some earbuds and follow along. But you DO need to be signed up for camp to

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⏰ Camp Creative Starts Tomorrow! (Limited Time Series)

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/06/09

Welcome to this special first ever limited-time series of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast. It’s Camp Creative this week, my favorite event of the year, and I wanted to make sure that no matter how busy you are, you can just pop in some earbuds and follow along. Starting tomorrow, we’re diving into podcasts in the classroom - the best shows for your students, what to have them do while they listen, and how to get your students creating their very own podcast episodes. Each day this week I’ll

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304: The Day my Students Questioned our Bleak Book...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/06/06

On this week’s mini-episode, I’m remembering the moment my 11th graders asked me to please, please, please add a book to our curriculum that wasn’t so depressing. Maybe you’ve had a similar experience? Let’s talk about what to do when the curriculum is full of death and despair. We were moving towards spring the year my juniors asked me why all of our books were so glum. My first instinct was to say they weren’t! Then I thought about it for a second. Adultery. Check. Death. Check. Despair. Check. We

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303: The End-of-Year Checklist for a Better August

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/06/04

Last night I dreamed I was teaching in a new classroom, except it had layers of stuff on the walls from three other teachers across twenty years of teaching. I couldn't find anything, and I couldn't change the set-up because I didn't know what was important to my colleagues. It was awful. Am I the only one to ever have a classroom set-up nightmare? Maybe. But the thing is, where you teach and how it feels really does help shape your year. So what can you do right now, during this final push to

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04:16

302: Is this your Canva Summer?!

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/05/30

On this week’s mini-episode, let’s talk about my favorite online teacher tool, Canva. If you haven’t signed up for their free educator program yet, this summer is the perfect time! You can explore all the design tools this wonderful website has to offer, and be ready in the fall to start using it in class. Plus, I’ve got a free mini course ready to help you do it. Today, let’s do a quick rundown on why I think you should. Did you know Canva began as a program to help make yearbook advisers’ lives

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301: The Easiest Last Day in ELA

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/05/28

You want the last day of ELA to be special, but what does that mean exactly? And who has the energy to think up this special plan when you're juggling allll the end-of-year things? If you'd like a fast, easy solution to the last day of your ELA classes, today I'm proposing (ha ha, I just accidentally typed PROMposing) stations. Stations are an easy way to get whatever dots have to be dotted and Ts have to be crossed at the same time as you build in a few fun things and keep everything lively so

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04:51

300: Teaching Summer School? 2 Paths to a Happier July

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/05/23

On this week’s mini-episode, let’s talk summer school. Because I know that if you ARE teaching summer school, you’d like it to be engaging. Memorable. Creative. Superfantasticaliciousexpialadocious. But of course there’s the issue of you’re tired. And so are the students. And maybe they’re not that excited to be there. So let’s run through two quick strategies for adding oomph and engagement to July. Here’s my top suggestion - change up your texts, and provide variety. Summer school is the perfect

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17:49

299: 3 Years Overseas: The Highs & Lows (as we...

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2024/05/21

As the sun rises a little earlier each day and the cherry trees in our neighborhood fill with fruit, our three years in Europe are coming to a close. With only a few weeks left of this European family adventure, I find myself thinking back over all that we've seen and done and learned. Highs like winter paddleboarding in Barcelona, nighttime tobaganning in Slovakia and hiking by herds of sheep along the south Coast of Wales together. Eating dark chocolate gelato with whipped cream in Rome and

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05:22

298: This Shakespeare Podcast connects the Bard to...

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2024/05/16

Today I want to talk about a fantastic podcast for you to use in class if you teach Shakespeare. With dozens of intriguing episodes like "Shakespeare and Game of Thrones," "Shakespeare and YA Novels," and "Pop Sonnets," The Shakespeare Unlimited Podcast, by the Folger Shakespeare Library, is a great way to bring in modern connections and relevancy to whatever play you're studying. Today I’ll give you a quick rundown on four fun episodes, and then I hope you’ll go exploring on your own to find more

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297: How to Squeeze Choice Reading into ELA (even if...

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2024/05/14

Choice reading can sometimes feel like an out-of-reach dream. I recently heard from a busy teacher who wrote, "I love choice reading, but squeezing it in can be tough!" Yeah, I get that. There's so much going on in ELA. In today's episode, we're talking about how to squeeze more choice reading moments into your busy schedule. Even if you don't have time to hand over 10 minutes in class for reading regularly, you can still build your choice reading program with quick-and-easy additions like

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05:04

296: My Favorite Final Exam (I mean, not that I don’t...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/05/09

Today I want to talk final exams, and specifically, one I’ve really enjoyed giving when I had the leeway to skip the sit-down exam. If you don’t have to involve any Scantron sheets in your final, you might love it too, so let’s dive in. Maybe you’ve seen some of the great graduation speeches floating around the internet - maybe you even analyze some of them with your students when you’re teaching public speaking or rhetorical devices. I haven’t had time to dive in yet, but I hear good things about

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11:56

295: Revision Frustration? Try This.

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/05/07

Do your students think of the revision process as a combo of spellcheck and Grammarly? Tend to peer edit by scrawling a compliment and circling two sentences that are missing periods? Yeah, they're not alone. Honestly, I didn't really get the revision process as a student either. It sort of felt like I wrote the paper I was going to turn it in, then I'd "polish" it a little by fixing any tiny surface mistakes so I could turn it in. Students are busy people, juggling family, friends, sports,

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294: Crying in the Dusty Stairwell (on Hitting a...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/05/02

Today I want to talk about a subject I’m sure you’ve thought a lot about - how much are you willing to do for your job? And what do you do when you’ve hit your wall? I want to start by taking you to the dusty steps of the duplex I shared during my first year of teaching. It’s dusk, and I’m crying. I recently won the award for excellence in new teaching at my school, receiving many hugs and congratulations, as well as a raise and kind compliments from my head of school. I should be feeling great,

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293: Creative Exam Review Activities for ELA (that...

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2024/04/30

With exam season coming up, you're probably looking for some creative ELA review activities. Whether your school requires that students sit a traditional exam, or you have room for something like the graduation speech final or another type of final project, it's helpful to look back over the big concepts, themes, and texts you've covered as the year draws to a close. So what options do you have besides printing out a 20 page review packet and giving students time to study it? A lot, as it turns

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04:29

292: Try the Sesame Street Quiz (5 Different Ways)

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2024/04/25

Today, I want to highlight a useful tool Amanda Cardenas shared earlier this year on the show called The Sesame Street Quiz. It’s so versatile, so fun, and so helpful that I feel it deserves a show of its own, so here we go. Amanda has already shared with us how these work, back in episode 267. Here’s a quick review: A Sesame Street Quiz gives students four items. Three are connected and one is an outlier. For example, if you’re reading Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby, you might give students the

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291: When Genius Hour WORKS (The Elective Series)

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/04/23

Have you ever wished you could get students excited about genius hour, then immediately wondered what you’d do if half of them couldn’t think of a topic? Well, today on the podcast, creative teacher Melissa Moser is here to talk about one of her favorite electives to teach - Genius Hour, and exactly how she sets students up for success - even the ones who just don’t know what passion to pursue when it comes to a passion project. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, and I think you’re going

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290: Try this Hack to Teach Varied Sentence Structure

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2024/04/18

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for this week’s mini episode. Today, I want to share a fun visual trick for helping students vary their sentence structure. I never really thought about sentence length until I was writing professionally. Sure, I knew to avoid run-on sentences, how to wield a semicolon,

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289: How to Launch Book Talk Podcasts in Class

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2024/04/16

Book talk podcasts can provide gentle choice reading accountability, target presentation of knowledge and speaking skills, and build a library of book recommendations for future students. Not bad, right? Today on the podcast I'm going to walk you through how to launch a book talk podcast with your students, and why it will be fantastic. Example Script: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Aj__-O8kwEJTXr_-3o7AU9B15sSQYIIFyn-cy-HSkUQ/edit?usp=sharing Go Further: Explore alllll the Episodes

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288: A Lesser-Known Amanda Gorman Gem

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2024/04/11

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether you’re new to the show or a long-time listener, I’m so glad you’re here for this week’s mini episode. Today, as earth day inches closer, I want to share a favorite find, Amanda Gorman’s video poem “Earthrise.” This beautiful poem could fit in so many different places in your curriculum, so let’s talk about them. First of all, let me tell you a bit

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