Lisa began her career as a first grade teacher in Chicago where she was so successful that the University of Chicago made her classroom a demonstration project. She developed one of the best urban literacy practices with about 35

kids in the room. As Dick Streedain says: “An ordinary school with one spectacular teacher.” He knows her work because he coordinated Northwestern University's MAT Program, working with new teachers in urban schools. Lisa did induction for new teachers walking alongside them from student teaching through their first two years. This program was so successful that the University of Chicago invited her to oversee their teacher induction program – she's one of four or five people who have moved that