Why Do Students Resist Revising Their Writing, How Can We Encourage Them?

Our guests explore strategies to encourage kids to embrace the process of revising and refining their writing.

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Melissa A. Butler is a writer, speaker, and educator living in Pittsburgh, PA. She was a classroom teacher for 23 years and now consults to help people slow down to notice more. Much of her work focuses on trust, intrinsic motivation, curiosity, and notice-to-wonder practices. Mary Beth Nicklaus is a language arts teacher and reading specialist for Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School in Wisconsin. Jenny Vo has spent all her 23 years in education working with English Learners and currently serves as an ESL ISST in Katy ISD in Katy, Texas. Jeremy Hyler is a middle school English and science teacher at Fulton Middle School in Middleton, Michigan. He is a teacher consultant for the Chippewa River Writing Project, a Community Ambassador for NCTE, and a Medial Literacy Innovator for KQED. He co-authored Create, Compose, Connect! Reading, Writing, and Learning with Digital Tools with Dr. Troy Hicks, From Texting to Teaching: Grammar Instruction in a Digital Age (2017) as well as Ask, Explore, Write. Blog MiddleWeb.