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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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199: Highly Recommended: Playing the "Whole Game"

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/29

A few years ago I read Sarah Fine and Jal Mehta’s book, In Search of Deeper Learning. These two researchers criss-crossed the country, searching out schools, programs, and classes where deeper learning was truly taking place behind the marketing hype about how “innovative” the school aimed to be. One of the key concepts that stayed with me was an idea they shared from another education writer named David Perkins, who argues that students need to “play the whole game at the junior level.” Mehta and

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198: Take One of These Virtual Field Trips with your...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/26

As I sat in the warm theater watching my son's sixth grade class recount their favorite memories of school last week, I couldn't help but notice how many of them involved a field trip. Probably 95% of the kids' recollections revolved around special, memorable events that didn't happen every week - a trip to Austria, a trip to the river, a trip to a kitchen space where they learned to cook a lunch and then eat it following a project-based-learning unit on restaurant design. I remember field trips

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197: Highly Recommended: Canva

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/22

This week on "Highly Recommended," I’m sharing my absolute favorite tool on the internet, which just so happens to be free for educators - CANVA! So here’s what Canva does - it give you (and your students) the ability to do the kinds of things that only designers used to be able to do. Once upon a time, you needed to spend fifty hours learning Photoshop to layer colors and images, get rid of backgrounds, match image colors to font colors, and so many other small strategies that made a visual

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196: How Caitlin's Verse Novel Book Clubs Engaged...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/20

Today on the podcast, I’ve got a great story for you. It’s the story of how one senior class stayed engaged right up to the end through an incredible book club unit on verse novels. The heroine of this story? English teacher Caitlin Lore. She’s about to tell you how she captured her seniors’ attention and held it. Wait till you hear about her title selections, her book tasting, her pop-up poetry workshops, her book club meetings, and her poetry Palooza! I think you’re going to love this episode!

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195: Highly Recommended: The High School Classroom...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/15

So here’s the thing. High school kids have about 10,000 things on their agenda just above going to the library to pick out a book. And if they do make it to the library, the librarian (through no fault of their own!) likely won’t know them well enough to help them get the book that is going to have them flipping the pages at midnight when they know they should be asleep but the plot is just so amazing they can’t help but read. These days I see a classroom library as an absolutely essential part of

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194: 4 Graphic Storytelling Activities from Graphic...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/13

Today on the podcast we’re sitting down with Laura Lee Gulledge, the graphic novelist behind The Dark Matter of Mona Starr. She's an Eisner Award nominated cartoonist, teaching artist, musical librettist, and collaborative muralist based in Charlottesville, VA. Her books include YA graphic novels The Dark Matter of Mona Starr, Page by Paige, Will & Whit, and the interactive Sketchbook Dares: 24 Ways to Draw Out Your Inner Artist. If you've ever wondered where to start with getting students

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193: Highly Recommended: The Libro FM Educator Program

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/08

Do you know about Libro FM's free audiobook program for educators? It's easy to sign up - they approved me in just one day! You can register for a free account and sign up here. Once you’ve enrolled in the ALC program, you’ll quickly build an audiobook library in your account. Even if only a few books a month in the educator program feel exactly right for your classroom, that could be 30+ books a year you’re adding to your device, for free. Then you can use them for First Chapter Fridays, a

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192: Who's on your New Pride Month Display?

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/06

Interactive wall displays are one of my favorite new things. Adding a QR code to a poster gives students the opportunity to take things further. If you've been hanging out with me this year, you know I've created interactive displays for you to celebrate Black History Month, Women's History Month, and AAPI Heritage month. Now it's Pride Month, and I've got another one for you. Maybe you're already out of school, or maybe you've still got a few weeks left (here's looking at you, New York

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191: Highly Recommended: Jason Reynolds

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/06/01

This week on “Highly Recommended” we’re talking about the guy who has been one of my top go-tos for years when someone asks for a book recommendation for a student. Jason Reynolds. In today’s episode we’re talking about a whole range of his fabulous books, including: Ghost, Lu, Sunny, Patina (The Track Series) As Brave as You Stuntboy in the Meantime Long Way Down - graphic novel or regular All American Boys Stamped Ain’t Burned all the Bright For Everyone Check out his website here, where he

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190: My Top Contemporary Text Ideas for your ELA Classes

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/30

I see a lot of posts each month inside our Facebook group, Creative High School English, asking for text recommendations for different courses. What's the best book to teach ninth graders? The best short story to teach tenth graders? The best performance poetry for seniors? I love this type of collaboration, because we all make discoveries at our local libraries and bookstores, and in our own little internet corners. You may not know about my absolute favorite yet, and I may not know about yours

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189: Highly Recommended: My Shakespeare

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/25

This week on Highly Recommended I’m sharing my favorite online tool for Shakespeare, the free website My Shakespeare. So what makes it so great? Well, let’s start with the fact that it as FULL texts available for Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Julius Caesar. That give you OPTIONS. You can choose one for a full class text OR have students choose plays that interest them for Shakespearean book clubs. But whole texts are jus the tip of the

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188: Feel like it's Impossible to Teach it All (Part II)

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/23

If you tuned into the podcast last week, you know I received an email from Shannon, an ELA teacher with big questions. In a nutshell, she asked - how do we fit it all in? The writing, the review, the whole class novels, the skills... Last week, we took a look at the big picture - how to plan the year to cover what you want to cover without getting overwhelmed. This time we're zooming in on planning a unit for one whole class text, and how to make all the decisions that go with it. Discover my

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187: Highly Recommended: The Dark Matter of Mona Starr

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/18

The Dark Matter of Mona Starr, by Laura Lee Gulledge, is a STELLAR book to consider for your choice reading library, book clubs, or even full class text. Here's why... It takes on the issue of mental health and well-being in a positive, real way without being prescriptive or moralistic. It showcases healthy friendships and family communication. It has INCREDIBLE art, art that goes beyond bringing the story to life and takes on a life of its own. Listen in for my review, and be sure to sign up for

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186: Feel like it's Impossible to Teach it All? (Part I)

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/16

Last week I received this email from Shannon, a teacher with questions I think we can all relate to. Here's what she wrote... "I am in my 8th year of teaching, and while I love aspects of it, I work 10-11 hours a day and am burning out. And, I feel that I'm on an island sometimes at my school—I have to re-teach skills that they should have been taught in earlier years, etc. I have one foot out of the door of the teaching profession. I find myself awake at night trying to figure out how to do a

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185: Highly Recommended: Faculty Fun

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/11

This week on Highly Recommended I’m sharing a rather unusual strategy to help you create connection among your faculty. Unless you've already found that magic teacher down the hall who turns into your best friend, teaching can feel pretty lonely, even though you’re surrounded by so many people all the time. Finding community among the adults at your school isn’t easy, especially with everyone juggling a ton of professional commitments with busy home lives. In this short Thursday podcast,

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184: How to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with this...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/09

Celebrate AAPI month in your ELA classroom with a bright display I made for you, featuring bios and QR code links to the work of ten AAPI creators. In this episode, discover easy ways to use the display for classroom activities in this busy month, as well as learning more about some of the authors and creators featured, like: Ken Liu Amy Tan Malala Yousafzai George Takei Gene Luen Yang SEE THE DISPLAY (and get your free copy of the display) Go Further: Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark

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183: Highly Recommended: Time-Saving Templates

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/04

This week on Highly Recommended I’m sharing one of my favorite strategies for saving time AND adding quality to daily work tasks. Doesn’t seem possible, right? Have you heard of decision fatigue? We make thousands of decisions every day, and it gets harder to make good ones as they stack up. That’s one good reason for having a set wardrobe you like - Steve Jobs-style - or always making tacos on Tuesdays. It’s also a great reason to use templates in your work. They save time and they cut the number

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182: Want to Support Student Well Being? I Know!...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/05/02

You've probably seen me amplifying Amplifier already this year, in the episode about featuring contemporary Indigenous voices in your ELA classroom or the one about spotlighting Black artists, activists and authors in your ELA classrooom. Amplifier.org is doing such powerful things with art. Empowering things. And I love it! That's why when I saw their new interactive poster series on wellbeing and mental health, I just had to put a big spotlight on it. Because this is a resource you can use

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181: Highly Recommended: John Spencer's Video Writing...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/04/27

This week on Highly Recommended I’m sharing one of my favorite sources for writing prompts, Dr. John Spencer’s video writing prompts channel. Personally, I love his short, impactful videos for educators as well as for students. I like how they get to the point in three or four minutes, and how they incorporate sketchnotes - one of my favorite things - to help us as viewers to visualize the most important ideas John shares. The video prompts are organized into four categories, making it super easy

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180: The One about Eastern Europe

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/04/25

Thinking about a trip overseas to Europe someday? Or in the mood for a little armchair travel? OR, maybe you're thinking about teaching abroad, and you're curious about the travel part of living in a new place... I've been getting some fun requests for tips about travel to this region of Europe where I live now, and they make me so happy! I love sharing about the beautiful places we've been lucky to visit since moving to Bratislava, and since I've been listening to travel podcasts for the last

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