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Erin Burns Mehigan
Consulting Manager
Erin Burns Mehigan is a consulting manager working with the Opportunity Culture® implementation team, supporting districts and schools to reach more students with excellent teaching. She leads a team of consultants that works with district leaders to design and implement Opportunity Culture® models. Before joining Public Impact®, she served as an assistant principal at a top-performing middle school in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Mehigan was a 2015–16 Opportunity Culture® Fellow, when she led a high school science Multi-Classroom Leader® (MCL™) team for the Project LIFT turnaround initiative in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. Under her leadership as their new MCL™, her team, which had previously experienced more than three years of negative student learning growth and proficiency, increased growth and proficiency year over year, through Mehigan’s student data analysis, co-teaching, lesson creation, and feedback and support. Mehigan holds an M.A. in educational leadership from the Summer Principals Academy at Columbia University Teachers College, and a B.A. in biology with minors in education and entrepreneurship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which she attended as a North Carolina Teaching Fellow.