Tracey Runeare taught high school social studies for 16 years before becoming a high school assistant principal. She has been the principal of Harbor High School in Santa Cruz, California for 5 years.

• Harbor High School - Santa Cruz - Beachside community. Small high school with 1100 students.
• Role of an admin needs to be shifted. To hear what teachers are struggling with and where they need help.
• Relationships - getting people to understand the why
• Still go into classrooms, even when they are virtual.
• Student X - is the prototypical student. A little bit of every student.
• How do you design your school to meet their needs?
• Create the best experience for students, flexible as much as possible.
• Flexibility takes a lot of work.
• Every teacher having that flexibility.
• We try to pay teachers for what they are doing outside of the day.
• We try to see what we can do to help.
• We have a system for organized binder and making sure that things are taken care of for them.
• Consistency is doing what people need.
• How to be a transformative principal? Ask questions — if you think something is going on, ask some people before you assume there is a need you need to fulfill.
• Not solving problems empowers everyone in the school.

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