John Warner is a writer, editor, speaker, researcher, and author of eight books, including: Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education, and Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. He is a weekly contributor to Inside Higher Education where he has become a national voice on issues of faculty labor, institutional values, and writing pedagogy. His text The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing is used in classrooms around the country. He is now affiliate faculty at the College of Charleston. 

Today John Warner and I talk about what it means to write authentically in a school setting and how top-down policies impact our teaching. You’ll learn about what you can do as a K-12 teacher to make students’ transition to writing in college more successful.