Aaron Broderick

Aaron Broderick

Middle School Educator 303-440-7520 aaron@watershedschool.org Aaron began creating curriculum as an undergraduate student with the National School Reform Faculty at Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana just over 15 years ago. As a part of an Individualized Major Program he created coursework alongside university professors researching experiential education, designing learning experiences for both his students and himself through the coursework he was teaching at Harmony. His fascination with innovative curriculum design and the small school initiative set the course for his career.

Aaron's passion and enthusiasm for experience-based learning has taken him around the world and back again. The search for inspiring teaching and learning opportunities has led him to Malaysia and Kazakhstan. Aaron designed a middle school math and science program for two new international schools over the course of four years. He retuned to Colorado in 2004 to help start an Expeditionary Learning School as a part of a district-wide school restructuring effort in North Denver. Most recently his education path found him in Nepal restructuring a middle school science and math program for a school that represented over 40 nationalities. The opportunity to design experiential, place-based, authentic curriculum has resulted in archeological explorations of the steppe along the Silk Road, snow science in the Alps, ecology in the jungles of Asia and ethnographic studies of hill communities in the Himalaya. The opportunity to inspire students through amazing learning experiences is what resonates most with Aaron. It is not surprising that he has found a new home at the Watershed School.

When Aaron is not planning rich learning opportunities for his students, he is planning adventures for himself. His thirst for discovery and growth has placed him at the base of some of the most spectacular mountains in the world with the most beautiful person in the universe, his wife, Colleen. If he is not camped out on the side of a cliff, then he is making music and watching the sun set on the hills outside of his mountain home.