Hall County’s efforts to provide more creative and challenging education for all students started with a lunch meeting more than a decade ago. Dr. Sally Krisel, now director of innovative and advanced programs for Hall County Schools, was the director of gifted education for the Georgia Department of Education when she agreed to meet Hall superintendent Will Schofield for lunch in 2006. “He said, ‘Sally, I’ve just become convinced that we will never have the schools that we want for our children if we cannot get over our obsession with adequacy,’” she recalled.