Victoria E RomeroVictoria Romero is an educator with over 42 years of experience working as a classroom teacher, principal, instructional and leadership coach. A principal in two turnaround schools, she continues to coach administrators, directors, pincipals, vice principals, and school leadership teams for equity and sustainable school improvement in three school districts in Washington state.

Victoria is a certified consultant for Corwin/Sage Publishers and lead author for two Corwin Press books, Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole Staff Approach (2018) and Race Resilience: Achieving Equity Through Self and Systems Transformation (2021). Both these books delve the impact of traumatization as it relates to social-emotional needs of White and students of color and how to create school cultures that foster resilience. In the latter work, she outlines a guide to support school staff in engaging in authentic dialogue about how our racialization and racial positioning influences our perceptions, behaviors, expectations, and decisions. Her guiding conceptual framework is systems will change when the people working in them change.

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