About Us
     
    Video Schoolhouse, LLC. is a small company located in southern NH dedicated to helping others learn to read - or learn to read better. The authors of the YOU CAN READ! video reading program came together in 1990 with the sole purpose of putting together a reading program that could reach the largest number of people. They envisioned that video was the way to accomplish that goal, as most homes now have a VCR. YOU CAN READ! is the end result of that dream.
     
    The Authors :
Brenda W. Thomas
Brenda is a certified elementary school teacher. She is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, and has done graduate work in the teaching of reading. She began her career in education as an elementary classroom teacher in New York and later taught both adult education and gifted education in NH before settling on the teaching of remedial reading for many years in her home town. Brenda and her husband, Brad, have two grown sons and live in Bedford, NH.

Linda M. Bardorf
Before her untimely death in Dec. of 1997, Linda was a certified secondary school teacher. She taught junior and senior high school English and social studies in both Maryland and New Hampshire before retiring to raise her four sons. She also lived in Bedford, NH.
     
    The Producer :
Visual Impressions is an audio/visual communications company. Since 1985, it has served the needs of a diverse group of clients from the corporate, health and human services, and education settings. Owner/producer, Walter Staples, has a background in education, having been a public high school teacher for twelve years. Along with his undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire, he holds a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Educational Media from Boston University.
     
    The Live Introductions :
Natalie Jacobson is an award-winning television anchor-woman for WCVB in Boston, MA. As a friend and fellow graduate of the University of New Hampshire, she was happy to lend her expertise to this project. Natalie's considerable talent and congenial nature have made her one of New England's most popular TV personalities. She has given of her time and talent to numerous educational and philanthropic endeavors. She resides in the Boston area.
     
    The Narrator :
The multi-talented Marie Harris is a published author and poet; she is the current Poet Laureate of the state of New Hampshire. Besides doing professional voice-overs, she, along with her husband, Charter Weeks, owns Isinglass Studio, a marketing firm in Barrington, NH.