Travis Crowder
10th Grade English Teacher and author at Catawba County Schools; co-author of "Sparks in the Dark" and "Reflective Readers," specializing in literacy instruction and reading workshops.
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Jun 12, 2026
Travis CrowderGUEST
It's something that you, you know, you read something and this is your reaction.
Travis CrowderGUEST
But, you know, it seems to be a, you know, how we're feeling or what we're, you know, what's going through our mind at it.
Jacob ChastainHOST
when did that shift for you? When were you like, "I need to do what I'm asking them to do to kind of figure it out"?
Travis CrowderGUEST
I'd been doing a ton of reading, a, a lot of soul-searching and a ton of reading, and it hit me that nothing has any true meaning for us until we connect to it.
Travis CrowderGUEST
W- we don't, art has no meaning, music has no meaning, books, um, a beautiful landscape, a car, you know, nothing.
Travis CrowderGUEST
And I realized that all of these things that I, I, you know, I was doing reading, and a lot of the reading that I'd heard, you know, it's all across the, um, the National Writing Project.
Travis CrowderGUEST
It's in a lot of the work of the people you've had on your podcast and you've talked to.
Travis CrowderGUEST
I mean, you know, you look at, uh, Penny Kittle's work, Linda Rief's work, Nancie Atwell's work.
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