Dr. Aimee Corrigan is a Professional Development Associate with the Leadership and Learning Center. Aimee brings more than 18 years of teaching and leadership in elementary, secondary, and higher education settings to her current work as a curriculum, data, standards, and assessment specialist with The Center.
Before coming to The Center, Aimee served as Achievement Coordinator, Summer School Principal, and Interim Principal in a Denver K-8 school. Despite the struggles of extreme poverty, high percentages of English language learners, and poor incoming reading and math skills, students at her school regularly outperformed peers in their neighboring schools and made gains that twice earned them the state of Colorado’s Distinguished Growth Award. Aimee attributes much of the school’s success to their focused implementation of data teams, common formative assessment writing, and rigorous curriculum design.
In addition to her work in building-level administration, Aimee has regularly provided professional development to teachers and school leaders through her partnerships with both a national school system and a national reading enrichment program. She’s presented widely on literacy, differentiated planning models, sheltered instruction, and classroom culture to groups ranging from pre-service teachers to seasoned administrators and district personnel. Aimee has also helped write and produce an internet-based reading across the curriculum program that allows secondary teachers in all content areas to gain strategies and build confidence as they integrate literacy skills into their social studies, science, and math classrooms.
Aimee’s teaching career began at Indiana University where she worked as an Associate Instructor of Comparative Literature. Her time with post-secondary students helped Aimee realize that her greatest impact as an educator would come in working with kids before they entered college. She spent a year teaching K-12 reading enrichment classes in inner-city Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis before becoming a high school English teacher in an urban Chicago alternative school. Upon moving to Denver, Aimee continued to work with lower socio-economic status students, this time while specializing in middle school language arts. These diverse teaching experiences give her a unique foundation as a presenter in that she’s taught all ages—kindergarten through adult—and has developed a powerful, first-hand understanding of where kids come from as learners and where we as educators want them to be.
Aimee lives with her husband and their two daughters in Denver where their family enjoys hiking, gardening, and reading together.
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