The Haberman Foundation: A Decade of Growth

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The Haberman Educational Foundation Fourteen
Years of Growth1994-2008
Our Simple Vision Selecting Teachers and
Principals of Excellence for Children in
Poverty . . . Martin Haberman
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HEF Advisory Board
Anthony Catanese, President Florida Institute of
Technology Charles E.M. Kolb, PresidentCommittee
for Economic DevelopmentJimmy Kilpatrick,
Editor ChiefEducationNews.orgLeo Klagholz,
Former Commissioner of Education New Jersey G.
Reid Lyon, Distinguished Professor, SMU
President and CEO, Synergistic Education
Solutions Mike McKibbinCalifornia Teacher
CredentialingCarl Patton, PresidentGeorgia
State UniversityGeorge E. Uhlig,
DeanUniversity of South AlabamaMichael Wolfe,
Executive DirectorKappa Delta Pi
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New Initiatives

• Star Teacher Coaches Interview
• Haberman Foundation Alliance
• NLU Partnership
• Research and Programs
• Progress on the Haberman/Simiosys classroom
  management series
• Haberman International Policy Institute in
  Education (HIPIE.org)?
• Looking Ahead 2008-2012

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Star Teacher Coaches Interview by Dr. Martin
Haberman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UWM
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Why Do We Need Teacher Coaches?

• Turnover is a critical national problem
• Principals Need to Identify Teachers who can
  Coach Others
• Teacher Coaches Enliven Coaching Models
• HEF Teacher Coaches Interview Identifies the Core
  Beliefs and Effective Models to Enhance Teacher
  Practice and Diminish Turnover

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RISE Haberman Foundation Partnership The
Haberman Educational Foundation Board Mtg 800AM
Central, October 31, 2008
Temp Keller, RISE Founder and President
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A Common Mission
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RISE Mission Retain effective K-12 public school
teachers to elevate student performance in
low-income communities. Haberman Educational
Foundation Mission The unified and single goal
of the Haberman Educational Foundation is to
teach and implement research-based models for
identifying teachers and principals, particularly
educators who serve students at risk and in
poverty. Good teachers could give the 15 million
children in America who live in poverty at least
an opportunity to pursue the American dream.
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RISE Model Overview
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Step 4 Attract Job Seeking Teachers to RISE
Partner Schools
Step 1 Administer Teaching Conditions Survey at
Partner Schools
Schools attract retain talent INCREASE STUDENT
LEARNING
Step 3 Teaching Conditions Survey Data Posted
on RISE Network for Job Seekers
Step 2 Partner Schools Reflect, Assess and Act
Sustainability Retention Gain
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RISE Teacher Selection Problem
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The problem
Can teach effectively
Right fit
RISE process screens candidates for
effectiveness, but
principals start here with RISE candidates.
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RISE Haberman Solution
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The solution
Right fit
Can teach effectively
Right fit
2 key ingredients

• RISE process screens candidates for
  reflectiveness and core beliefs
• RISEs profile questions
• Core belief that all kids can learn (Haberman
  pre-screener)?
• Principals start here
• Determine via Haberman or their own interview if
  teacher is effective
• Determine if teacher is the right fit

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The Win-Win
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• FOR RISE
• Research-based and supported
• Harvard study on pre-screener
• Well-known
• Districts Charter Management Organizations
• Objective
• Subjective evaluation is done by school
• Efficient
• Large volume of candidates reviewed

• FOR HABERMAN FOUNDATION
• Visibility
• Every principal and potential principal on RISE
  learns about Haberman
• Network
• Groups for Haberman interview training
• RISE Growth
• RISE growth Haberman growth

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Haberman Foundation Alliances

• STRATEGIC
• ALLIANCE
• FOR
• EDUCATION
• Douglas Blancero
• Vice President, Development   Operations
• JP Associates (www.jponline.com)?

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The Charter Members

• JP Associates, Inc. Response to Intervention,
  Academic Intervention, Curriculum Training,
  Responsive Coaching 
• The Haberman Educational Foundation Identifying
  star teachers, star teacher coaches, star
  principals, and superintendent candidates for
  school reform. 
• Project ACHIEVE School-wide behavior
  management, social skills, accountability, RtI  

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The Challenges
Schools today face a multitude of challenges as
they assume more and more accountability for the
achievement of their students. In order to more
efficiently and effectively address the needs of
schools committed to the change needed to ensure
the success of students, the members of S.A.F.E.
have joined together to offer schools a one
stop resource center addressing areas of
instruction, behavior, school improvement,
recruitment, selection, and professional
development.
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  The Strategic Alliance for Education SAFE 4
SCHOOLSA true comprehensive solution for
schools
The Strategic Alliance for Education is a network
of quality service providers with the mission of
providing America's schools with a comprehensive
evidence-based framework for school improvement
through collaborative strategic planning and
systematic implementation of staff recruitment
and selection, professional development, and
classroom coaching.
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Strategic Staffing Identification, recruitment,
selection, and retention of quality staff
(Superintendents, Principals, Teachers,
others)Instruction Effective instructional
strategies across the curriculumProactive
Behavioral Systems School-wide positive support
and social skills developmentEarly, strategic,
and intensive academic and behavioral
intervention services (RtI)
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SAFE Comprehensive Staff Development for the
21st Century

• S.A.F.E. is uniquely qualified to assist schools
  in developing a plan of action that is
  comprehensive, individualized, evidenced based
  and implemented with integrity and
  professionalism.

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The Strategic Alliance for Education (SAFE) was
awarded an RFP for Alhambra school district in
Alhambra (AZ).
This is an inaugural activity for SAFE! Staff
development will begin in 2008-2009.
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Haberman Educational Foundation
Partnership
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Partnership National-Louis University
Delia Stafford, President The Haberman
Educational Foundation, Inc Houston, Texas 77025
  January 30, 2008   Dear
Delia,   On behalf of National College of
Education (NCE) at National-Louis University, I
am pleased to acknowledge our partnership with
the Haberman Educational Foundation, Inc. Our
work together begins with our collaboration on
the development of an Interdisciplinary Masters
Degree program and the presentation of three
Haberman Star Selection Interview training
sessions during the next calendar year on our
campuses.   We see many rich opportunities for
future collaborations and look forward to
expanding and deepening this relationship over
time.   Sincerely, Mark Larson Director of
Partnerships National College of Education
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National-Louis University/ Haberman Masters
Degree

• NCATE-Accredited Online Masters Degree
• A collaborative effort of the HEF with
• Dean of Education, Alison Hilsabeck,
• Associate Dean, Jerry Ligon
• Faculty Sue Hanson, Eleanor Binstock, Tom Fox

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Online Masters Design

• Designed for star teachers who want to stay in
  the classroom and deepen their practice
• Teachers describe how they helped their students
  achieve higher scores and learn more
• Develop a compendium of best practices to be
  shared
• Closely monitored by NLU staff

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Masters of Education Interdisciplinary
Studies/Action Research and Assessment
National Louis University And The Haberman
Foundation
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Overview of Program

• Who Certified teachers in schools
• How Taught online Focus on student growth and
  development
• When Seven NLU quarters Qu1 Introduction to
  Action Research and Assessment Qus2-6 Action
  Research studies on student growth Qu7Reflection
  and synthesis of own AR studies, sharingFirst
  group Begins (ideally) January 2009, completes
  August 2010

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Outcomes for demonstrated student growth a work
in progress
Masters candidates in the IDS-ARA program will
demonstrate the growth and development of the
students in their classrooms, using the
following Knowledge documented learning in
student acquisition of specific content
knowledge Skills documented learning
in specific student academic skills student
critical thinking student performance in
specific problem-solving areas student
developing life skills student communication of
understandings written, verbal and/or visual
Dispositions documented growth in student
engagement in their own learning. student
self-directed learning connecting current
learning to life goals student collaborative
skills
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Program Outcomes Through their action research
studies, candidates will achieve the following

• Learn a variety of strategies for assessing
  student growth
• Engage in action research to better understand
  student learning and ones own practice
• Strive to be critically reflective about student
  learning and schooling and ones own learning,
  teaching and schooling
• Examine social, economic, and political issues
  related to assessment
• Engage with the complexities of diversity and
  multiculturalism in our culture and our
  classrooms
• Work with technology as an information/communicat
  ions system for teaching, research and
  professional conversation
• Advocate for all learners through professional
  conversation on learning, teaching, research and
  assessment

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Programs and Research
Institute for Urban Education at the University
of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC)? Gus Jacob,
Ed.D. UMKC School of Education
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Institute for Urban Education at UMKC
Incoming Freshmen Experience the Star
Teacher Interview
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Leadership Institute for Perspective Principals
Partnership between UMKC and Kansas City,
Missouri School District Star Principal
Interview an admission requirement
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Kansas Public Schools Leadership Academy
Star Principal Interview as the Primary
Identifier for the Leadership Academy 50 of
principals currently in KCKPS were selected using
the principal interview
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A Kansas City (KS) Story
The Power of Star Teachers
Washington High School Principal,
Greg Netzer, Ph.D. It only takes
one teacher one teacher with the right
stuff --Martin Haberman
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A Memphis (TN) Story
The Power of Selection Beverly Cross,
Ph.D. Moss Chair of Excellence in Urban
Education University of Memphis Memphis
(TN)? With the Memphis City Schools
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Haberman Informs Practice in Memphis

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• Urban Education Principals Academy Program
• New Program to Select and Train New Secondary
  Principals
• New Superintendents Initiative
• Johnson Scholars Selection Process
• Endowment to Prepare Urban Teachers
• Masters Degree Program

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Haberman Informs Research Nationwide

• American Educational Research Association
  Symposium, April 2009
• Panel of Young Scholars How Dr. Habermans Work
  Informs their Research and Teaching
• AERA Papers Published
• Book that includes AERA Papers
• Ideas for additional chapters

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The Knowledge is Power Program Dr. Richard
Streedain, (NLU) Presenter

• KIPP Founders Mike Feinberg and David Levin
• KIPP/Haberman Educational Foundation Contextual
  History
• Relationship with Teach for America         
• NLU/KIPP Educational Leadership ProgramStar
  Teachers The Ideology and Best Practice of
  Effective Teachers of Diverse Children and Youth
  in Poverty

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KIPP Academy Programs Using Haberman Selection
KIPP Truth Academy Dallas, TX  (Steve
Colmus)         KIPP Polaris Academy Houston,
TX  (Shawn Hardnett) KIPP Leadership
Conversation with Dr. Haberman and Delia
Stafford  (2004-05), (2005-06)(2007-08) and
(2008-09) Star Teacher Interview Training 
(2006-07), (2007-08) and (2008-09) Internalizati
on of the Teacher Selection Process KIPP Aspire 
Academy (Joyce Boubel) KIPP Academy Nashville
Nashville, TN  (Jennifer Hill)
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Next Steps KIPP/Haberman

• Where do we go from here?
• Regional Partnerships?
• The Haberman Star Administrator Selection
  Interview 
• Integration with Skillful Teacher Research for
  Better Teaching (Jon Saphier) and Tripod Project
  (Ronald Ferguson)

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A Clarksville (TN) Story
Fulfilling Aspirations Mike Harris,
Ph.D. Director of Schools Clarksville
(TN)? Reflecting on Past and Future Successes
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Strategies for Reform
Guilford County (NC) implemented the Haberman
Star Teacher and Principal interview as a major
part of our hiring process. Both the interview
and on-line screener information were used in all
hiring decisions. We trained 100 of our
principals on teacher selection.
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Results in Guilford County
"It is not enough to attract teachers to low
performing schools. You must attract the right
teachers to those schools--teachers who get
academic results. Working with Dr. Martin
Haberman and his staff has helped us take the
guess work out of teacher selection." Dr. Terry
Grier,Superintendent, Guilford County Schools,
Greensboro, North Carolina.(2007)?
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Awards to an Effective District

• In 2007, Guildford County School District was the
  highest scoring school district in the state
• In 2007, Dr. Terry Grier was selected
  Superintendent of the Year for North Carolina
• Alan Hooker, Recruitment Specialist, speaker

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Spreading Success to Clarksville,TN
In Clarksville Montgomery County School System,
we use the Haberman Star Principal interview as a
required interview for all assistant principal
and principal candidates. Also, we use the Star
Principal interview with our candidates for the
Aspiring Leaders Academy, using that information
for coaching aspiring leaders to improved
performance. We have started to develop modules
of training around the leadership functions
expected of star principals and found in Dr.
Habermans work.
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Star Teacher Development Series

Heather Bilton, Ph.D.
Staff Development

Savannah-Chatham, GA
Putting Theory into Practice
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Star Teacher Development
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Star Teacher Development Series Advances
Professionalism
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Introducing Haberman/Simiosys
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Star Classroom Simulator
A perfect amalgamation of two organizations to
create a product that will change our future
Dr. Herman Shuster, Chief Education Specialist,
U.S. Education Service Chris Stapleton, Ph.D.,
presenter University of Central Florida (UCF) and
Simiosys/HEF
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Helping Teachers Create a New Climate in the
Classroom

• Product is an effective and compelling training
  tool
• Used as a research-based screening tool to
  evaluate the appropriateness of teacher
  candidates
• Includes off-the-shelf technology in a novel and
  innovative way.

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Institutionalized Recruitment and Selection
Recruitment and Selection in Tampa Dr.
James Goode Manager Application
Services Hillsborough County Public Schools (FL)
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Star Classroom Management Protocol Game
Will this individual be able to manage a
classroom? This question can now be answered,
to some extent, by data gathered from the Star
Classroom Management Protocol Game. In
addition, veteran teachers as well as beginners
will be able to assess themselves in complete
confidence and privacy in order to learn whether
or not they have what it takes. If veteran
teachers, novice teachers and teachers-to-be can
manage the classroom, then they have a chance of
sharing their knowledge with children and youth.
If they cant relate to the students and keep
them on-task then what they know will never be
received or learned.
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The Game is Based on Research

• Dreikurs showed that children respond to their
  needs based on four categories of behaviors
• Attention
• Power
• Revenge
• Avoidance of Failure

Dreikurs was a well known child psychologist and
educator who lived and worked in the Chicago
area. His works are numerous and his success
with childrens behaviors was legendary.
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Choosing Strategies

• Knowing which strategies will work and being able
  to expeditiously apply them in situations with
  multiple overlapping applications is one of the
  keys to good classroom management.
• The gamer can improve by learning more about
  students motivations and by seeing through
  repetition how the game works.

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How to Play the Game
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Web 2.0 initiatives

• Second Life- an opportunity to create
  awareness- a free 3d platform for online
  collaboration and teaching- trainers can create
  environment - participants can have an
  unprecidented sense of presence and
  personality
• Facebook- a free tool to raise awareness and
  track popularity- potentially more inclusive
  than any other web portal - over 100,000,000
  users currently, 1 in 3 people on the web are on
  facebook.
• Wikipedia- free to maintain and further promote
  the foundation- we have a responsibility to keep
  it accurate
• Linked in- business version of facebook
• LearningTown- Hosted by Elliot Masie's company-
  merges public and private sector online
  learning specific

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The Haberman Foundation in Second Life
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Developing Opportunities for Teacher Selection
Training
The Texas Homeless Education Office (THEO)
Vicky Dill, Ph.D. Senior Director, Charles A.
Dana Center Austin (TX)? Supporting Front-Line
Personnel Who Can Sensitively Deal with Children
in Homeless Situations
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A Growing and Alarming Need

• There are 52,000 homeless children in Texas on
  any given night
• 2 million children in September 2008 became
  homeless through foreclosures

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Effects of Homelessness on Children and Youth in
School

• Greater need for sensitive and caring teachers
• Increased need for all personnel in every school
  to greet students in homeless situations in a way
  that is encouraging
• Overcoming stereotypes, reaching beyond
  caricatures, and understanding the role of
  poverty in the classroom are effects that can be
  overcome by using the Haberman Star Teacher
  Interview.

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A Holistic Approach
We All Owe it to our Local School Districts to be
Addressing Homeless and Poor Childrens Needs
Through Sensitive Personnel Selection.
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Improving Teacher Preparation
Grant-Funded Candidate Selection Linda
Post, Ph.D. Professor, College of
Education University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)?
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Program Features

• Employs Haberman Star teacher online prescreener
• Employs Haberman live Star teacher interview
• Selected teachers complete certification program.

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Dissemination Educationnews.org
EducationNews.org "A Partner in Insight and
Commentary"The Internets Leading Source of
EducationNewsDaily EducationNews   Free On-Line
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of 123,000,000 for Education News Jimmy
KilpatrickBulletin Board Editor
Chief EducationNews.orgSenior Fellow, Alexis de
Tocqueville Institution  
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Haberman International Policy Institute in
Education (HIPIE)?
Jimmy Kilpatrick, Editor and Chief at
Ednews.org, is pictured with Acting Consul
General Abdullah Jassim Al-Maadadi of the State
of Qatar in Houston, Texas. Acting Consul
Al-Maadadi hosted a wonderful and well attended
event at the cities OMNI Hotel to celebrate The
National Day of the State of Qatar. Former United
States Ambassador to the State of Qatar, Chase
Untermeyer attended along with many friends from
the area. Delia Stafford-Johnson, President of
the Haberman International Policy Institute in
Education, and husband Don Johnson of Fluor
Corporation were present at the event. Mr.
Al-Maadadi gave a brief history of the National
Day for the attendees. 2007
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Foundation Headquarters

• For 15 years, HEF has continued to strive to
• Fluidly respond to the needs of schools for
  increased services and efficiencies
• Remain technologically relevant while focusing on
  its core mission finding effective personnel
  for at-risk students
• Continue to build capacity by adding new trainers
  and sharing responsibility for garnering new
  business
• Keep the cost of services to schools affordable
• Continue to search for expanded funding to
  sustain the work of the Foundation for
  perpetuity.

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Delia Stafford and Martin Haberman
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Three Dreamers
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Five-Year Plan
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Thank you for your Support of The Haberman
Educational FoundationOctober 31, 2008