Jamie Contreras is building on his family legacy – not just as principal at Gabe P. Allen New Tech Academy, but also in Oak Cliff and West Dallas. Every day he walks through the school, he sees a hallway or a room that was there when his father attended in the 1960s and knows he is in the right place. “When you look around, you can see where it has been updated, but you can also see what’s original to the school, and I can hear dad,” he said. “When I see the young boys here, I can see how dad would have been then. I see dad in them, and I want them to have the same foundation he had to be successful in life.”