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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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179: Highly Recommended: SBB's Baths vs. Showers

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/04/20

This week on Highly Recommended I’m sharing a hilarious podcast episode you can use from Smash Boom Best titled “Baths vs. Showers.” I discovered Smash Boom Best this year while I was on the hunt for great class podcasts. It’s a debate show, in which two guests come on and argue for their side of an argument topic suggested by kids. I’ve listened to shows on Dogs vs. Cats, Trick-or-Treating vs. Birthday Parties, Kung Fu vs. Tap Dancing, and Books vs. Movies. They’re pretty much all hilarious. A

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178: Struggling to Make it to the End of the Year?...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/04/18

If you're currently seated dead center on the struggle bus, or your seniors are waving senioritis flags in your ELA classes, you're not alone. As summer beckons and the buildup of busy from the year weighs on you (and your students), the last six weeks can be a tricky time. I know you want to acknowledge that the end of the year is close, you want to do something a bit lighter and extra engaging, but you don't want to wag any flags of your own. Plus, you don't necessarily have the energy to

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177: Highly Recommended: Starfish

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/04/13

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Highly Recommended Series. Every Thursday we take a quick look at something I think you’ll love. What will that something be? It might be a compelling book for your students, a power-packed activity to try ASAP, my favorite new episode of a podcast I think your class will love, a free resource you might have missed, or even a recipe for your next Monday night or a city here in Eastern Europe I want to share with you! This will be a fun, free-wheeling series that

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176: Reasons to Feel Hopeful about AI at School

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/04/04

Looking for the "right" approach to AI in your English classroom? Find out how the New England Innovation Academy is working WITH students to design their approach, and how you can too. Ben Farrell - our guest today- brings a wealth of experience working with students into our conversation. He’s been a dean, a head of school, an upper school director, and more, and in his current position at the New England Innovation Academy, he has the job of helping guide a program modeled on human centered

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175: Actionable ABAR Steps in ELA, with Liz Kleinrock

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/03/21

Looking to bring more Antibias Antiracist work into your creative ELA 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 for creative ELA teachers, 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

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174: A New ELA Go-To? 15 Ways to use La Literatura de...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/03/07

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. Ever since I interviewed Brown Professor emeritus Eileen Landay in episode seventy-seven about arts integration, I’ve been wanting to return to one particular concept she shared, Brazil’s “Literatura de Cordel” and the many creative possibilities it provides. It’s such a simple idea, stringing up a

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173: Enjoy Teaching Rhetorical Analysis (with these...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/02/21

Want to teach rhetorical analysis in a way that's creative, engaging, AND gets the job done? Mix and match these fun ELA strategies to suit your needs. This week on the podcast, let’s talk about why rhetorical analysis is actually a blast. Sure, it sounds complicated to students at first. Ethos, pathos, and logos? Rhetorical situations? Logical fallacies? Rhetorical techniques? Phew! But soon enough all these bits and pieces combine into a really interesting way to see how the songs, conversations,

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172: Celebrating Black Authors, Artists, & Activists...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/02/07

Want to showcase Black authors, poets, artists and activists in your ELA classroom? Celebrate Black History Month all year long with these ideas. Black History Month is here, and while it’s vital that we celebrate Black poets, authors, leaders, playwrights, and activists throughout our curriculum, this is a great time to put a special focus on spotlighting all the wonderful Black voices in the ELA world. There are so many to choose from!! So today, I want to share some easy ways to do that, today,

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171: 6 Wonderful Ways you can use Graphic Novels

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/01/25

Try using graphic novels in your ELA classroom to create powerful reading ladders, launch literature circles, help make the classics accessible, and more! Today on the podcast, you’ll find six perspectives on why graphic novels are a GREAT addition to your ELA program, and how you might use them in different creative ways. Each of our five creative guests brings something wholly unique to the table, and I’m so pleased they all took the time to come on and share their experience and innovation. Tune

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170: How to Host a Graphic Novel Book Tasting

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2023/01/11

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. Maybe you’ve got some new titles for your choice reading library, a graphic novel or two lined up for First Chapter Friday, or even a graphic novel on the horizon as a whole-class read, and you wish your students were more aware of and excited about the graphic novel genre. Ooooh boy, have I got an easy win for you. Head for the

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169: Turning Classics into Graphic Novels, with...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/12/28

Gareth Hinds has created appealing graphic novel versions of many great classics of English literature, like The Odyssey, The Iliad, Beowulf, and Shakespeare's plays. In this episode, find out how to use them in class to help deepen engagement. Gareth Hinds is an English Teacher’s superhero. He takes the most challenging works of classic literature for our students, spends years studying them deeply, and creates graphic adaptations students get excited about reading. I mean, come on! How great is

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168: Why I'm not Worried about the New AI Tools

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/12/14

Worried about the new AI and its repercussions in the world of ELA? In this quick episode, let me share why I think it might actually be a good thing for our profession. For many years now, students who are so inclined have been able to grab a paper off the internet. I remember the paranoia I felt after learning that the students at a new school where I was teaching a decade ago had actually created their own website for sharing work. To hear other teachers tell it, the answers to EVERYTHING any

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29:44

167: Fight Erasure. Feature Contemporary Indigenous...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/11/29

Featuring contemporary Indigenous voices in your ELA classroom - on your walls, in your research and writing projects, and on your shelves - can make a big difference in fighting erasure. Help your students of all backgrounds learn about Indigenous leaders, artists, and activists. In today's episode, I'm sharing concrete options to help. Discover the best free posters, leaders to feature in your research projects, strong contemporary titles, an easily accessible poem by our Poet Laureate Joy Harjo,

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166: How to Add an Audiobook Listening Station to...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/11/16

Want to help the independent readers in your ELA classroom enjoy audiobooks? Whether you want to use Audible, Libro FM (do you know about their free educator advance listening program?), Libby, or Sora, in this episode I'll walk you through the process of creating easy access for your students at your own classroom listening station. The bookstores of Bratislava, where I live now, are quite dazzling. In one, an entire wall is made of the open pages of books. A moving portrait – Harry Potter style –

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165: Classroom Management Strategies you can Actually...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/11/02

Want to improve your classroom dynamics? Start with relationships, and watch how they can positively impact your daily life as a teacher in so many ways. In this episode, learn fun and easy strategies like post-it compliments and the googly eye connection from our guest CJ Reynolds, from Real Rap with Reynolds. Then watch - as your relationships deepen, your pedagogy will strengthen too. Today’s guest, CJ Reynolds, has spent seventeen years teaching high school literature and the history of hip hop

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164: 5 Public Speaking Projects for Secondary ELA

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/10/18

Looking to engage your secondary ELA students in creative public speaking projects? Try podcasting, debate, mock trials, mini speeches, or genius hour talks! Who hasn’t felt a few cold chills at the prospect of public speaking? Teaching year in and year out definitely helps though. As you stand up in front of groups of kids over and over, it starts to feel normal. Not for our students though. Public speaking is so intimidating for them. But we know from our own experience that practice helps, so

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163: Case Study: A Meaningful 21st Century Research...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/10/05

Find out how veteran teacher Jane Wisdom successfully incorporated a social media twist on the traditional research project, with great results from her students. Go Further: Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast. Join our community, Creative High School English, on Facebook. Come hang out on Instagram. Enjoying the podcast? Please consider sharing it with a friend, snagging a screenshot to share on the ‘gram, or tapping those ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to help others discover the

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162: Active Teaching: 10 Out-of-their-Seats Activities

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/09/21

Beat the after-lunch lethargy with these active classroom strategies. Learn how to use stations, escape rooms, speed debating, hexagonal thinking, performance, and more to help keep your students up an engaged. In this episode, we're running through my favorite ways to help shake it up with movement in the classroom.

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161: The Ultimate Guide to First Chapter Friday

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/09/06

First Chapter Fridays let you introduce students to a wide range of diverse compelling authors even if you can only spare a few minutes a week. In this episode, discover book choice inspiration, display options, author video options, sketchnotes templates for students, and more. Plus, get some ideas for how to save your voice! I've been singing the First Chapter Friday song for years, but here's a complete take on how to do it right, with tons of resources and visuals waiting for you in the

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160: The College Essay: What Students (and Teachers)...

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA ·

2022/08/23

Need help teaching the college essay to your students? Learn about what makes a strong college essay from four experienced college admissions officers and high school college counselors from around the United States. Play this episode for your students too! Find the show notes and grab the free companion curriculum at: https://nowsparkcreativity.com/podcast

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