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Volume 2, No. 1                       Winter/Spring, 2008                       Exclusively online at www.EducationHall.com
 

Online contents:
Editor's Note: These articles print best when using 1/2" margins on all sides

Commander's Corner
Pete Hall
EducationHall's Executive Director Pete Hall introduces the art of focusing our work

Coaching Along the Continuum
Alisa Simeral
Mrs. Simeral open the discussion about intentional instructional coaching, providing a
framework for tackling one of education's newest - and least structured - innovations

The Lightning Club
Derek Cordell
Mr. Cordell continues the chat about honing our focus on the students as individuals,
utilizing a proactive approach to school-wide discipline and management

Book Review: The One Thing You Need to Know
Editorial staff
In the spirit of focusing our work, we investigate Marcus Buckingham's 2005 "The
One Thing You Need to Know...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained
Individual Success"

Conference Times
Editorial staff
A quick look back at the 2008 ASCD Annual Conference (New Orleans, Louisiana;
March 15-17) and a glance ahead at the 2008 NAESP Annual Convention (Nashville,
Tennessee; April 4-8)

On Common Sense
Derek Cordell
Our esteemed and humorous columnist shows us how the P-word can become a
naughty term

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