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Building trust, breaking through

On a recent Friday morning at Georgia O’Keeffe Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin, Tracy Warnecke was looking for students to help with a project. She poked her head inside a Spanish class. “Can I take Eliana to help me? Can I also take Lilly?”

O’Keeffe Principal Tony Dugas calls Warnecke “one of the very best” when it comes to getting kids to push themselves academically and achieve at high levels by relating to them, connecting to their lives, understanding them, and gaining their trust.

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