About Aimeclaire
Aimeclaire Roche serves as Director of Cranbrook Schools, a nationally-recognized Pre-K through 12 independent preparatory school that enrolls more than 1,650 day and boarding students. She was selected as the first new Director since 1995 following an extensive, nation-wide search.
Previously, she served as Head of The Bishop’s School, in La Jolla, California from 2009 until 2018. Roche was Assistant Head of Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts from 2004 to 2009. She worked at St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Delaware from 1994 to 2004 where she served as Director of College Counseling and the Department Head for Classical Languages.
She has taught at both Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire and The Williams School in New London, Connecticut.
In addition to serving as the Board President of the California Association of Independent Schools, she was Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for School Year Abroad and a member of San Diego Heads. She is also an active member of The Headmaster’s Association, the oldest heads-of-school organization in the country, having been elected in 2013.
She is currently a Field Instructor for Master’s Degree candidates in the Leadership Academy program at Columbia University’s Klingenstein Center and has served on the faculty of the New England New Teacher Seminar. She has presented nationally on a variety of topics, speaking at both the National Association of Episcopal Schools and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Roche holds an M.A. from Columbia University, an A.B. from Harvard University, and has done advanced coursework through the National Endowment for the Humanities and at the University of Georgia and The American Academy in Rome. She is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Her official duties as Director of Cranbrook Schools began August 1, 2018.
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