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Leading with “We”

at W.G. Mallett School, Tracy Williams ’82

is Maine’s Distinguished Principal of the Year

Story by Lindsay Tice ’98 • Photos by Bob Bailie
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t the W.G. Mallet School in Farmington, meetng with the principal can be a good thing.

If you’re one of the school’s 370 preK-2 students, it means you snagged a coveted seat for lunch
with Principal Tracy Williams. Or maybe you wrote her a leter and she wrote you back. If you’re
a parent, it means you brought your family to Prime Time Reading night (pajamas welcome) or
maybe you connect as part of the PTA. If you’re a teacher, it means you’re discussing a new lesson,

or collaboratng about a student, or chatng at one of Mallet’s monthly “cofee house” socials.
Because Williams—Class of ’82 and recently named Maine’s Natonal Distnguished Principal of the
Year—believes a great school isn’t created by the principal alone. “I think of this as ‘we,’” she said.

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