Lisa S. Goldstein

Dr. Lisa S. Goldstein began her primary grade teaching career in Brooklyn, New York in 1988. She moved to California in 1989 and taught second grade in the Palo Alto school district for several years. Lisa left her primary grade classroom to become a professor of teacher education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her goal was to focus on educating prospective elementary school teachers about the benefits of using best practices with learners in prekindergarten and kindergarten.

After twelve years on the faculty at UT--where she was honored with the 2004 Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2005 Libba Shatto Massey Award for Excellence in Teacher Education--Lisa joined Santa Clara University's Department of Education in fall 2008.
 Lisa teaches courses in the areas of curriculum, standards, instruction, assessment and accountability, diversity, and ethical teaching practice to the prospective TK-12 teachers in Santa Clara University's Master of Arts in Teaching + Teaching Credential (MATTC) program.

Lisa earned a Bachelor's degree in Art History from Yale University, a Master's degree in Education of the Gifted from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford University. An internationally recognized expert on primary grade teachers' curricular and instructional decision-making, Lisa has authored 3 books and over 30 journal articles that present her research findings.

Lisa currently lives in San Jose, California with George, her elderly English bulldog.