# The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282.md RSS feed: https://sparkcreativity.libsyn.com/rss Official site: http://nowsparkcreativity.com Author: Betsy Potash Episodes: 425 ## Resource 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. Love teaching poetry? Explore blackout poems, book spine poems, I am from poems, performance poetry, lessons for contemporary poets, and more. Excited to get started with hexagonal thinking? Find out how to build your first deck of hexagons, guide your students through their first discussion, and even expand into hexagonal one-pagers. Into visual learning? Me too! Learn about sketchnotes, one-pagers, and the writing makerspace. Want to get your students podcasting? Get the top technology recs you need to make it happen, and find out what tips a podcaster would give to students starting out. Wish your students would fall for choice reading? Explore top titles and how to fund them, learn to mak… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282.md ## Episodes - [434: What I'll be Doing on the First Day of School](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/434-what-i-ll-be-doing-on-the-first-day-of-school) — 2026-07-29T14:32:00+00:00 - [433: The Uncrackable Justification for Choice Reading](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/433-the-uncrackable-justification-for-choice-reading) — 2026-07-22T15:42:00+00:00 - [432: ELA Classroom Design: What to Put on your Walls this Fall](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/432-ela-classroom-design-what-to-put-on-your-walls-this-fall) — 2026-07-15T15:36:00+00:00 - [431: Highly Recommended: This Vehicle for AI in ELA Conversations](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/431-highly-recommended-this-vehicle-for-ai-in-ela-conversations) — 2026-07-08T15:52:00+00:00 - [430: What you Need to Know about Design Thinking for ELA](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/430-what-you-need-to-know-about-design-thinking-for-ela) — 2026-07-01T17:10:00+00:00 - [429: Don't Miss this Essential Lesson on Multimodality](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/429-don-t-miss-this-essential-lesson-on-multimodality) — 2026-06-24T14:25:00+00:00 - [428: Start a Classroom Library With Me](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/428-start-a-classroom-library-with-me) — 2026-06-17T13:25:00+00:00 - [427: Try this Colorful Maker Tool: Digital Idea Blocks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/427-try-this-colorful-maker-tool-digital-idea-blocks) — 2026-05-28T18:23:00+00:00 - [426: I Read 17 PD Books this Year so You Don't Have to](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/426-i-read-17-pd-books-this-year-so-you-don-t-have-to) — 2026-05-20T18:14:00+00:00 - [425: 5 Engaging Ways to Review in the Final Days](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/425-5-engaging-ways-to-review-in-the-final-days) — 2026-05-13T16:23:00+00:00 - [424: Ready. Set. Engage with Dystopia!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/424-ready-set-engage-with-dystopia) — 2026-05-06T19:07:00+00:00 - [423: Try this Multimodal End-of-Year Review & Reflection](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/423-try-this-multimodal-end-of-year-review-reflection) — 2026-04-29T14:21:00+00:00 - [422: 7 Research-Backed Steps to Better, Easier Feedback in ELA](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/422-7-research-backed-steps-to-better-easier-feedback-in-ela) — 2026-04-22T14:59:00+00:00 - [421: Help for Teaching Poetry (Part II)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/421-help-for-teaching-poetry-part-ii) — 2026-04-15T13:09:00+00:00 - [420: My 9th Grade Dream Curriculum (as I get an Unexpected Request)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/420-my-9th-grade-dream-curriculum-as-i-get-an-unexpected-request) — 2026-04-08T13:20:00+00:00 - [419: Hate Teaching Poetry? Here's Help (Part I)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/419-hate-teaching-poetry-here-s-help-part-i) — 2026-04-02T00:23:00+00:00 - [418: Highly Recommended: The New York Times Contest Calendar](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/418-highly-recommended-the-new-york-times-contest-calendar) — 2026-03-25T13:38:00+00:00 - [417: Graduate Programs for English Teachers (Help to Launch your Search)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/417-graduate-programs-for-english-teachers-help-to-launch-your-search) — 2026-03-18T14:01:00+00:00 - [416: Book Club It: How to Restructure (Almost) any Unit into Book Clubs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/416-book-club-it-how-to-restructure-almost-any-unit-into-book-clubs) — 2026-03-10T19:07:00+00:00 - [415: Struggling to Teach Narrative? 6 Craft Strategies for Students](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/415-struggling-to-teach-narrative-6-craft-strategies-for-students) — 2026-03-04T14:51:00+00:00 - [414: Highly Recommended: Play the Whole Game](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/414-highly-recommended-play-the-whole-game) — 2026-02-25T14:54:00+00:00 - [413: Creative Lessons from Microschools and Portable Innovation Labs with Dr. Annalies Corbin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/413-creative-lessons-from-microschools-and-portable-innovation-labs-with-dr-annalies-corbin) — 2026-02-18T14:57:00+00:00 - [412: Fresh Ideas for your BritLit Curriculum](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/412-fresh-ideas-for-your-britlit-curriculum) — 2026-02-11T17:18:00+00:00 - [411: 41 Authentic Audiences for your ELA Students](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/411-41-authentic-audiences-for-your-ela-students) — 2026-02-04T16:03:00+00:00 - [410: The American Lit Curriculum I Would Teach Now](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/410-the-american-lit-curriculum-i-would-teach-now) — 2026-01-28T15:02:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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