She is a Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University, where she led the creation of the teacher education program.
[3] Wassermann's first year of teaching was in San Francisco,[4] and then she returned to New York where she taught until 1966 at which point she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to begin the teacher education program at Simon Fraser University.
[citation needed] Wassermann is known for her work on child-centered education and children's books.
[8] Wasserman has also published children's books, including books about a chimpanzee named Moonbeam and a submariner named Sailor Jack,[4] and an app to help children learn to read.
[9] Her book on maintaining relationships with grandchildren from afar, The Long Distance Grandmother, had its fourth edition released in 2001.