The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA

The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA


Latest Episodes

270: Try a March Madness Poetry Bracket
March 14, 2024

Today, lets talk about March Madness, and how to harness all that awesome enthusiasm to get your students excited about poetry. Last year I worked with Melissa Alter Smith from #teachlivingpoets to c

269: Teaching Research to Digital Natives
March 12, 2024

Remember when research projects involved stacks of books and notecards? Yeah, me too. But we all know research has changed. I recently finished a couple of pedagogy books for English teachers - one by

268: Try These Google Translate Tools in Class
March 07, 2024

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether youre new to the show or a long-time listene

267: So your Students aren't Doing the Reading? Here's Help.
March 05, 2024

Today on the podcast, were sitting down with Amanda Cardenas to talk about a very big question. A huge question, really. What can teachers do when students arent doing the reading? And is reading

266: Summer PD that Delivers
February 29, 2024

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether youre new to the show or a long-time listene

265: Teaching Conversation in a Polarized World (The Elective Series Begins)
February 27, 2024

Lately Ive been thinking a lot about electives. Electives I want to design, like one about Youtube creation and one about Taylor Swift, and the amazing electives teachers in our community are desig

264: Launch Tiny Podcasts (don't be intimidated)
February 22, 2024

Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Whether youre new to the show or a long-time listene

263: Let's Reimagine the "Teacher Work Room"
February 20, 2024

Ahh, the hum of fluorescent lighting. The slightly stained carpeting. The copier that is almost-if-not-already-out-of-paper. The dirty coffee cups. It's no secret that at many schools, the common teac

262: Let Students Design Escape Rooms
February 16, 2024

This week, I want to suggest you let your students design an escape room. Escape rooms are, in the iconic words of Zoolander, so hot right now. And they have been for years. Students love them! Who wo

261: Skill Practice that Isn't Boring: Grammar Edition
February 13, 2024

So you want your students to get better at something, but drill-and-kill is clearly not the answer. Been there, done that, didn't like it. So what's a creative teacher to do? Today I'm going to pull