Lisa
Strum is an educator with twenty-four years of public and private
school experience. Her background includes a B.S. degree cum laude in
elementary education and reading, an M.S. cum laude in ESL and post
graduate experience in various education areas including educational
technology as well as literacy studies. She is dual certified as an
elementary subject reading teacher in Massachusetts and holds
permanent New York State certification as an elementary educator.
Ms. Strum serves as an educational consultant for an IBM partner
software firm in New York and has taught in Winthrop, Massachusetts
and Long Island, New York for the Great Neck and Elmont Public School
districts. She has written feature articles for This Month Onstage
Magazine and various regional New England newspapers.
Ms. Strum has also enjoyed avocational success acting and directing
community theatre and is an avid crafter. Ms. Strum highlights her
beading accomplishments on her personal website which she created at
http://www.geocities.com/ladybeadegoode/