Tim Corrigan

Background

About Tim Corrigan

After over sixteen years of teaching Writing, Journalism, and Literature at the high school level, I'm highly skilled at bringing meaningful ideas into lively discussion, and guiding younger writers to create excellent work. Having my own creative nonfiction published in literary journals, I employ an engaging literary style to model concise, colorful, and thoughtful reflections on materials at hand. Educator highlights: Guiding Journalism students to write winning articles for the Press Democrat High School Journalism awards Creative suggestions and editing ideas for young writers to personalize their voices for college applications Organized a visual and narrative Nature Vlog project synchronizing literary reflection voiced over filmed landscapes in Sonoma County Tailored engaging study plans that explore Black Lives Matter and Humans in the Wilderness curriculum Key Skills: Organization | Modelling excellent writing | Summarizing difficult material | Creating thoughtful questions for literature | Offering options for demonstrating mastery