John Bishop

Don’t find fault – find a solution.

John and Carole Bishop became social entrepreneurs after a life-changing event that involved our granddaughter. John's granddaugter attended a “magnet” school in the St. Louis Public School system. At a parent– teacher conference John read some essays posted on a bulletin board titled “The Night.” One seventh grade girl wrote:

“I’m not afraid of the night.

I’m not even afraid when I hear bullets.

I take my brother and we lay down in the bathtub

until the shooting stops.”

Accent on Success®, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping students succeed in school and in life, is the direct result of that young girl’s essay.

Our first book, Goal Setting for Students®, took more than 1-½ years to write and had valuable input from more than twenty-five professionals with advanced degrees in teaching and curriculum development.

Carole Bishop has a background in Human Resource management and 25 years of successful experience in teaching, counseling, training and mediation. Carole is directly responsible for all aspects of writing, editing and categorizing the various Teaching Moments parenting ideas. She also determines which Teaching Moments will be sent out each month.

Carole and John have two grown daughters, Raegan and Nicole, and three grandchildren with whom they love to spend time.

John Bishop, a graduate of Babson College in Boston, has more than twenty five years experience in sales and sales management. He has owned two companies and developed sales organizations in the United States, Europe and Japan.

He wrote Goal Setting for Students® which has received three national parenting book awards. After the awards John and Carole received numerous requests for additonal ideas to help positively impact children’s lives. The Teaching Moments are their response to those requests.