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      On October 15, 2008 Facing the Future Together: Forming Successful School-Business Partnerships received the IRWIN Award (Industry Recognition of Writers In the News) from the Book Publicists of Southern California.  The book was recognized as the Most Innovative Non-fiction for 2008.  It was presented by Stan Chambers an award-winning news reporter for KTLA TV.  Mr. Chambers said the following words as he presented the author, Jim Leatherwood, with this award:

     "It's good to have a top educator and perennial optimist as the award winner for Most Innovative Non-Fiction.  He's Jim Leatherwood, author of Facing the Future Together:  Forming Successful School-Business Partnerships.  "When we pull together as a community and as a nation, no one will outperform our students," says Leatherwood, "and our future will be in good hands." 

     This past April Jim was the featured speaker in San Diego at the California Association for Career and Technical Education.  He has also gained attention in England when Prince Charles received a copy of the book and extracted ideas in a British program to help disadvantaged children.  So, the 2008 IRWIN Award for Most Innovative Non-Fiction goes to Jim Leatherwood, a deserving recipient."

If you would like to receive a signed copy of the new edition of Facing the Future Together, with the IRWIN Award gold seal contact The Brook Press @aol.com.  A reduced price is available for multiple book orders. 

     J.L.    

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     The topic of "partnership" includes parents as partners.  The late Tim Russert of NBC's Meet The Press addressed this subject in his book Big Russ & Me:

     "It's important to have high expectations of children and young people, and it's equally important to give teachers the authority they need to impose discipline and teach accountability.  I believe that parents of my generation have often failed our kids. We are so eager to be understanding and sympathetic that we end up being too lenient, even as we further undermine the already diminished authority of teachers, coaches, and principals.

     Does this mean that teachers are always right?  Of course not.  But that's how life goes:  sometimes our bosses and supervisors are wrong, or too harsh, and we still have to live by their decisions.  Sometimes umpires blow the call, but the call still stands.

     Teachers are-or should be-figures of authority, and they need to know that parents support them.  We love our children, but we do them no favor when we give them the idea, either by word or by deed, that teachers or other adults are not worthy of their respect."

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