Practicing Healthy Relationships in Academic Spaces through Informed Revision

I try to create classroom environments where students of diverse backgrounds can develop their intellectual curiosity and can engage others with vulnerability and respect by centering relationality and community-building as key practices of knowledge and learning. I implemented Informed Revision through a 'research feedback day' as an instructional strategy to help me further engage students in these processes through writing and research. I was interested in understanding: To what extent does informed revision increase students' engagement with the course assignments and with each other? I found that this intervention: increased student confidence in their knowledge and work; provided space for them to model positive and constructive feedback; helped students connect in a healthy and collegial way; and helped produce strong research papers from students.