Principal, Tait Danhausen

Mr. Danhausen comes to HUSD by way of Nashville, Tennessee, where he has served as a secondary principal and school administrator for Lead Public Schools for the last 14 years.

 

He was raised in Healdsburg
and graduated from Healdsburg High School in 1998. As a student at HHS, he participated in drama, competed in track, tennis and cross country, where he was part of the 1997 Sonoma County League Championship team. Education is a part of his family’s local legacy as his grandparents both taught in HUSD for many years and his mother served as a teacher in the nearby Mark West District.

 

Mr. Danhausen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego in Political Science, an Master’s in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Long Island University, and a Doctorate in Learning Organizations and Strategic Change from Lipscomb University. He is an expert teacher of English Language Development, having taught in New York City public schools and in Oakland through the KIPP system. For the last few years, he has been the lead administrator for several middle schools, supervising their principals.