Teacher Profile Series: Washtucna teacher Lisa Landstrom

A new Washtucna teacher hopes her experience with homlessness will help her in dealing with students who are facing that, and other difficulties.

Lisa Landstrom, who already has seven years of teaching experience, decided she needed a change in her life and left her teaching job in the Spokane area to come teach in Washtucna. She will teach fourth and fifth grades.

Landstrom grew up on the Oregon Coast in Astoria, where she graduated from Lewis and Clark Christian Academy, a small private Christian high school.

“I got a really good education there,” Landstrom. “I went to college right after hi...