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| Jostens Renaissance is pleased to announce a "rock-star lineup" of featured speakers. (Download the 2009 Speakers
PDF) Featured speakers at this years Jostens Renaissance National Conference include:
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Kevin Carroll
Kevin Carroll is an author, speaker and agent for social change. With his effervescent energy, wit, and humor, Kevin helps people harness the power of sport and play as a vehicle for chasing and achieving their dreams. As an author, Kevin has achieved incredible success with his first book,
Rules of The Red Rubber Ball (ESPN Books). Newsweek magazine calls it...an adult’s version of Dr. Seuss’s
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! - a pocket-size guide to finding your way in life." The book was also featured in BusinessWeek’s “Champions in Innovation” in 2006. |
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Justin W. Patchin
Dr. Patchin is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He earned his Ph.D. in criminal justice from Michigan State University. For the past five years he has been exploring the online behaviors of adolescents, including social networking and cyberbullying. He travels across the United States training parents, teachers, and other youth workers about how to keep their kids safe online. He recently co-authored the book
Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to
Cyberbullying. |
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Jessica Weiner
Jess Weiner is an author, self-esteem expert, advice columnist and media personality, committed to transforming the self-esteem of women and girls worldwide. With a refreshingly candid and engaging personality, Jess has an incomparable gift for connecting with both mothers and daughters alike and helping them to develop the attributes of self-confidence, self-knowledge and self-acceptance. Her authentic manner of self-disclosure, compassion, and tangible tools of action make Jess a sought after voice for girls and women alike. |
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Marc Prensky
Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, futurist, visionary and inventor in the critical areas of education and learning. Marc is the founder of Games2train, an e-learning company and the author of the critically acclaimed
Digital Game-Based Learning and Don’t Bother Me Mom - I’m
Learning. Marc’s professional focus has been on reinventing the learning process, combining the motivation of video games and other highly engaging activities with the driest content of education and business. He is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between games and learning. |
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Mark Scharenbroich
Mark Scharenbroich’s motivational style, knockout humor and personal stories with universal appeal all focus on the relationship side of creating results, connecting people to people, administration to faculty, educator to student, and student to student. He has delivered his powerful messages in more than 3,000 school districts covering every state in the U.S., every province of Canada and nine additional countries. Mark has written and produced several award-winning programs on leadership, motivation, school climate and character education. |
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Keith Nord
Keith travels across the country speaking to thousands of students and teachers about leadership, decision making, character education and personal excellence. Keith is an honors graduate from St. Cloud State University in Business and Marketing. After college, Keith began a 7-year career with the Minnesota Vikings. He arrived at the Minnesota Vikings training camp as a walk-on. Although less than 5% of all walk-ons ever play in the NFL, Keith made the team and went on to become a captain. Keith was named as the Muscular Dystrophy and March of Dimes Citizen Athlete of the Year, as well as the Vikings NFL Man of the Year for his commitment to community service. |
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Erin Gruwell
Erin Gruwell found herself the teacher for a troubled group of students who had been dubbed
"unteachable." Dedicated to an educational philosophy that valued and promoted diversity, she transformed her student’s lives. The tale of how this first-year teacher encouraged these wayward inner-city kids to forego the rampant drugs and violence that pervaded their neighborhoods and redirect their lives is recounted in the best-selling
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around
Them, which became an award-winning film starring Hilary Swank. |
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