According to the author, English classrooms across the country have the potential to be the incubators we need to repair public discourse. Through traditional and innovative strategies, the author states, we can begin to rebuild our national conversation from the ground up, letting students take the lead while guiding them along their journey toward the creation of new discourse norms and an understanding of the rhetorical situations in which they find themselves every day. In Columbus, Ohio, a Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN) colleague, Amelia Gordon, and the author created a writing exchange program, Erase the Space, that addresses the major issues they see permeating public discourse in the United States. Columbus is also one of the most rapidly growing cities in the country, and this is where the author's research on public discourse in the high school English classroom intersected with their environment. The author's goal for Erase the Space is to create a common experience for ninth graders around the city of Columbus with the hopes of kickstarting conversations between people who may not have had those conversations otherwise, igniting a discourse revolution in the city and the surrounding area. Teaching mindfulness for language through collaborative learning can direct attitudes of discourse in the direction of a communal effort to address problems through conversation rather than shaming your opponent and creating more distance between worldviews.