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Lisa Kromol is a School Counselor at Gideon Welles School in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Lisa Kromol began her career in school counseling as a graduate student at Hofstra University, where she earned her MS in Counselor Education. During her time at Hofstra, Lisa Kromol completed her counseling practicum at South Side Middle School in Rockville Centre, New York, where she worked with two 13-year-old students. Demonstrating her strong sense of empathy, Lisa Kromol assisted her students in developing strategies to deal with issues related to academics and other stressors. While at Hofstra, Lisa Kromol was also a Guidance Department Volunteer at Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York. The following year, Lisa Kromol completed a school counseling internship at Farmingdale High School in Farmingdale, New York. Lisa Kromol evinced the versatility and energy that would serve her well in her future roles. Lisa Kromol met with students and parents, assisted in college planning and college fairs, and monitored report cards and progress reports to identify students requiring academic intervention. Lisa Kromol returned to South Side Middle School in 2005, where she temporarily replaced a counselor on leave for two months. Immediately afterward, Lisa Kromol accepted a position at Edgemont Jr./Sr. High School in Scarsdale, New York, where she remained for two years before relocating to Connecticut and joining the staff at Gideon Welles School in the Glastonbury Public Schools. Outside of her professional activities, Lisa Kromol is a valued member of her community in Manchester, Connecticut, and she supports the American Cancer Society, the Boy Scouts of America, and Cornerstone Christian School. Lisa Kromol also takes pleasure in reading, going to movies, and hiking.
Lisa Kromol's Publications
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Alice Sebold contemplates difficult issues, Lisa Kromol
June, 2010
Alice Sebold, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Lovely Bones, often explores violence and mortality in her work. The Lovely Bones is told from the perspective of a young girl who, having been raped and murdered, surveys the people she has left behind from her spot in “heaven.” As she watches the world and the events that transpire after her own murder, the narrator eventually comes to terms with her short time on earth. Alice Sebold takes a bold – and in reality-based fiction, rare – step in utilizing her deceased character as the narrator, and yet the girl’s unique voice allows the author to present her themes in a compelling way. Fortunately for readers, Alice Seybold avoids the pitfalls of sentimentality or absurdity which her setting and narrative choice might easily have led to. Alice Sebold often explores the theme of mortality in her work, and has also written stories and poems about violence and rape. She herself was raped at the age of eighteen, an experience that informed and inspired her first published book, Lucky, a memoir many years in the making. She has said that her desire to write about the rape fueled many literary attempts, most of which she felt were not successful. The burden of writing a story that would encompass the feelings of all rape victims stymied her efforts to create a dynamic and individual character, Sebold has explained of those early attempts. Alice Seybold’s latest novel, The Almost Moon, appears to be a continuation of her exploration of the themes of violence and terror.
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