{"id":14,"date":"2015-05-31T05:38:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coverstory.wpengine.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:45:03","slug":"instructor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/byline\/instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]\n

Instructor<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Dr. Daniel Schwabauer, Th.D.<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning author and teacher. Many in the homeschool community know him as the creator and beloved teacher of The One Year Adventure Novel<\/a>\u2014<\/em>a highly-praised creative writing curriculum for high school<\/strong> students. In response to many requests, he developed a Language Arts curriculum for middle school students as well, a magazine-writing curriculum called Cover Story<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My goal in creating the Byline<\/em> curriculum, for grades 9\u201312, is to make essay writing fun, by teaching students essay skills through chronojournalism\u2014reporting on the past.”
\n~ Daniel Schwabauer<\/em><\/span>
\nRead the story behind BYLINE \u00bb<\/em><\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His professional work includes novels, stage plays, radio scripts, short stories, newspaper columns, comic books, nonfiction ghost writing, and scripting for the PBS animated series Auto-B-Good<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He is also editor of Crosswind Comics, dedicated to developing educational materials for youth-at-risk, prison inmates, and others. He created the Amazing True Life Stories<\/em> series as well as The Amazing Gospel<\/em> graphic novel, which has been translated into several languages and is used around the world.<\/p>\n

Daniel has received numerous writing awards, including the 2005 Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Children\u2019s Literature for his novel, Runt the Brave<\/a><\/em>, and the 2007 Best Books Award for his novel, Runt the Hunted<\/a><\/em>. The Curse of the Seer<\/a><\/em>, book three in the Legends of Tira-Nor series, released in 2015. He has a Masters in creative writing from the University of Kansas and a Doctorate in Theology in semiotics from Kairos University.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1433311958175{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_text]\"\"<\/p>\n

Dr. Daniel Schwabauer, Th.D.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1543101001559{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

“I want to help take the intimidation factor out of writing. Helping students to enjoy the process is part of that. I love to see them discover they can do it.”<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

\n\t