Educational Resources, Learning and Professional Development

Larry Biddle | 08/09/2011

Building strong, self-reliant, self educating young Americans is as relevant today as it was when we started the #1 Program at Conway High School in South Carolina — the home of Jostens Renaissance. Seth Godin, in his blog — www.sethgodin.blogspot.com — says, “The lottery is great, because it is easy. Not certain, but easy. If you win, the belief goes, you’re done. Medical School is great because it is certain. Not easy, but certain. If you graduate, the belief goes, you’re done. Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.” Today’s 10 Essential Elements of Renaissance (review SEEN Fal... Read More...

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Larry Biddle | 03/21/2011

Dennis G. Wiseman, former Director of The Biddle Center, and Gilbert Hunt, former Dean of the College of Education at Coastal Carolina University, have released the second edition of Best Practice in Motivation and Management in the Classroom. The text published by Charles C Thomas Publisher, Ltd., Springfield, Illinois, is dedicated to those students who enter schools each day and bring with them, or encounter there, problems in motivation and management, and to the many dedicated teachers who continue to seek ways to meet both the personal and learning needs of these students. The research is a comprehensive work that offers practical infor... Read More...

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Larry Biddle | 11/19/2010

Several years ago while preparing for a meeting of the Board of Directors at Burroughs & Chapin Company — one of the founding development companies started over 100 years ago in Horry County, South Carolina — I was reading a golf course appraisal and evaluation report on our Arcadian Shores golf course, which at that time was leased to the oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hilton hotel. As I studied the comprehensive document, a four-tiered assessment about the quest for excellence caught my attention: golf courses and schools are very much alike. There are lots of traps! Too many students fall into traps every day! This report featured four distinct c... Read More...

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Larry Biddle | 08/23/2010

From our humble beginning at Conway High School in South Carolina until now, Jostens Renaissance has continued to focus on the power of teaching and learning across our nation. When Conway High School launched the CHS #1 Program on January 20, 1984, we knew that our quest to create lots of niches for lots of kids would begin to close the recognition gap on our campus. It was simple. There was an achievement gap because there was a recognition gap! What we needed was an inside-out business approach that centered on our entire school community as the most important business in town. We knew that we must elevate and appreciate the teaching profe... Read More...

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