Chalk and Ink: The Podcast for Teachers Who Write and Writers Who Teach
Chalk and Ink is a biweekly school year podcast that interviews teachers who write and writers who teach. Are you looking for inspiration to develop and deepen your writing and/or teaching practice? If so, then listen to the experts who make it their practice to become better writers and teachers every day. If you'd like to connect after listening, please find me on Twitter @KateNarita or visit my website www.katenarita.com Happy listening!
Chalk and Ink: The Podcast for Teachers Who Write and Writers Who Teach
The Final Episode: Sarah Brannen and Melissa Stewart the Collaboration Dream Team
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Hello Everyone! Welcome to the 100th and the final episode of Chalk + Ink: The Podcast for Teachers Who Write and Writers Who Teach. I’m your host Kate Narita, author of 100 Bugs! A Counting Book and assistant principal.
It may sound like the words 100th and final episode of Chalk + Ink easily rolled off my tongue, but I assure you they did not. It has been an absolute honor creating this podcast for you for the past six years, and it has honestly been a year-long process for me to let go and say farewell.
When thinking about the last episode, I of course thought about the first episode with Angela Shante. I also thought about featuring clips from all the episodes with more than one hundred downloads and then realized in surprise that more than 80% of the episodes have had at least 100 episodes. Next came the idea that before the first episode, author and illustrator, Sarah Brannen, created the podcast art. And, I realized that featuring Sarah was a way to have the beginning hold the end.
For those of you who don’t know, Sarah has advocated tirelessly for all students to have the right to see all familial structures in books in schools and for all students to have the right to read freely. You can read her response to the Mahmoud v. Taylor Supreme Court’s ruling on her website sarahbrannen.com and on Pen America’s website pen.org.
And then I thought about another tireless advocate for children to have the right to read all books, Melissa Stewart, who has relentlessly fought for children to have access to high quality nonfiction trade books. I also realized that past collaboration episodes have been some of Chalk + ink’s most popular shows. Since Sarah and Melissa have collaborated together on four books and all four of their books are delightful summertime reads, I knew interviewing the two of them was the perfect way to honor you, the listener, and honor Chalk + Ink, because this whole project has been a collaboration.
And the interview doesn’t disappoint. We talk about the power of critique groups, collaboration, and journaling. So, get your journals ready, take some notes and then head outdoors to see what summertime surprises nature has to offer you today.