Aime contributes to the development and delivery of technical assistance services and research projects under the Regional Education Laboratory for McREL’s Pacific Center for Changing the Odds. During her tenure as an 8th-grade science teacher, Aime simultaneously served her school, district, and department of education as an at-risk intervention teacher, a data coach, a data coach trainer, a program evaluator, a curriculum specialist/designer, and staff developer in the areas of English Language Development and Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE). Aime earned her doctorate in education (K–12 leadership and policy) from the University of Southern California; her research entitled “A Comparison of Value-Added, Ordinary Least Squares Regression, and the California STAR Accountability Indicators” earned her the Dissertation of Merit Award.