Meet Our Teachers

Blair Barrows is a 2018-19 Teach Plus Colorado Teaching Policy Fellow. Blair is the Special Education Coordinator at DSST: Stapleton High School, where she teaches math, English, transition skills, organization, and serves as a case manager for students in 9th-12th grade and is the High School Content Lead in special education for the network. Blair was a recipient of the 2012-2013 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. During the fellowship, she traveled to seven countries to study the role of play in various educational philosophies. Blair received her Board Certified Behavior Analyst certification in 2016. She earned a BA in Psychology with a minor in education from Sewanee: The University of the South and an MEd in Special Education from Vanderbilt University.

Amy Fleig is a 2018-19 Teach Plus Colorado Teaching Policy Fellow. Amy is the 504 coordinator and accommodations coach at Compass Montessori School, supporting pre-K through 12th grade teachers to work with special needs students. Prior to this, Amy spent four years teaching 4th-6th grade at Compass. She serves as a staff representative on Compass’s board of directors, has been an active member of the school’s systems and structures strategic planning committee, participates in her community’s diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, and orchestrates a yearly service event for 150 Compass elementary students. Amy earned a BA in Psychology of Education and her elementary teaching license from Colorado College and her MEd in Educational Psychology: Applied Developmental Science from the University of Virginia.

Erin Gallimore is a 2018-19 Teach Plus Colorado Teaching Policy Fellow. Erin teaches 1st grade at Glenwood Springs Elementary School where she shares a collective leadership role in the design team and is a mentor teacher for the Education Program at Colorado Mountain College. She has published in the American Annals of the Deaf and teaches English as a Second Language to adults. Previously, Erin taught kindergarten at Glenwood Springs Elementary School and was a deaf and hard of hearing teacher with Mountain BOCES, servicing students grades preschool through high school.  She earned her BS in Special Education: Deaf and Hard of Hearing from Illinois State University and her MAEd in Education, Equity and Cultural Diversity from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is pursuing her EdS in Educational Leadership and Special Education at the University of Northern Colorado.

Patrick Hammond is a 2018-19 Teach Plus Colorado Teaching Policy Fellow. Patrick teaches 10th grade world history in an integrated environment with an English teacher at Legacy High School in Broomfield, Colorado. He facilitates the world history team and has served on the school’s Faculty Advisory Committee. Patrick serves as a union representative for teachers at Legacy High School. He has received stipends for the study of history through The National Endowment of the Humanities and The Gilder Lehrman Institute. Prior to teaching at Legacy High School, Patrick served students at Niver Creek Middle School for eleven years. He holds a BA in History from Sonoma State University and an MA in Teaching and Instruction from the University of Colorado at Denver.