{"podcast":{"title":"The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast | ELA","slug":"the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282","podcast_index_feed_id":743282,"rss_url":"https://sparkcreativity.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://nowsparkcreativity.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/c/2/e/b/c2ebf102a6acd494bafc7308ab683e82/TSCTP_3000px.png","author":"Betsy Potash","episode_count":425,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T04:18:43.548102+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282"},"episode":{"title":"418: Highly Recommended: The New York Times Contest Calendar","slug":"418-highly-recommended-the-new-york-times-contest-calendar","published_at":"2026-03-25T13:38:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/418-highly-recommended-the-new-york-times-contest-calendar","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282","url":"https://sparkcreativity.libsyn.com/418-highly-recommended-the-new-york-times-contest-calendar","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sparkcreativity/hr_nyt_contests_full.mp3?dest-id=518145","summary":"Welcome to another episode in our occasional series of short \"Highly Recommended\" episodes, in which we dive into a quick idea, resource, or tip that I hope will have an immediate impact for you. This week, we're talking about an online treasure trove of authentic audience for your student writers. Here's the link for this year, or search \"NYT Student Contest Calendar\" anytime: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/learning/our-2025-26-student-contest-calendar.html Go Further: Explore alllll the Episodes of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast . Snag three free weeks of community-building attendance question slides 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 show. Thank you!","meta_description":"Welcome to another episode in our occasional series of short \"Highly Recommended\" episodes, in which we dive into a quick idea, resource, or tip that I ho…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":157,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/episodes/418-highly-recommended-the-new-york-times-contest-calendar/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-spark-creativity-teacher-podcast-ela-743282/418-highly-recommended-the-new-york-times-contest-calendar.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}