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This past school year my class had a theme of “Pull the Next One Up” based on The Latin School Belief Film Project. During writing group time the whole purpose was to highlight the strengths that each writer brought to the table in addition to things that they could work on to improve writing. Our hope was that as a class we were pulling the next writer up, so that writer could continue the cycle. Year round I work to build an environment that is filled with trust and nurtures risk-taking. Since starting conferencing with students, I have seen improvement in my students ideas, organization, grammar and literary skills. Conferencing not only makes my students better writers, but helps the class build stronger