Lloyd Jerauld graduated from Sidney Central School in 1965, along with his twin sister, Linda (Linn). As a varsity wrestler, he earned second place at States during his senior year. He was a senior class officer, played football, ran track, and was an Area All State member junior and senior year.
Throughout his life, Lloyd contributed to the communities where he lived and worked, and took his activity to a high level of achievement. He sang with a competitive barbershop chorus and in church choirs. He did community theater. He raced motorcycles and sailboats. He played backgammon and published a backgammon strategy book. He was in the General Clinton Canoe Regatta many years and twice won the 70-mile aluminum class.
Lloyd graduated from SUNY Oswego with a degree in Secondary Math Education and earned his Master's degree in Math from Syracuse University. He taught in Marcellus and Cazenovia, NY, and then spent 33 years at Jamesville DeWitt High School, where he coordinated the introduction of computers into grades K-12 and implemented one of the early Computer Science Curriculums in New York State. He developed courses for Syracuse University to train teachers on how to create similar programs, and developed a curriculum of high school computer science courses to prepare students for the AP computer science exam. Lloyd consulted at schools throughout the state, and developed questions for New York State Regents exams to validate the use of computers in the curriculum. He developed a software program to help remedial students learn math, and presented a paper at a national conference, explaining the program's benefits.
In Texas, Lloyd began teaching at IDEA, the highest performing, fastest growing charter school in the US with open enrollment and no tuition. He defined and implemented a strategy of full school-year teaching for math, which resulted in significant and dramatic changes to the school's state mathematics exam results, rising from a pass rate of 33% to 90% during Lloyd's first year as math department leader. His Quest College Prep math program was ranked nationally in the US News & World Report.
Tom Torkelson, founder of IDEA Public Schools explained "In 2000, I started a small school in Donna, Texas. Nearly all of our students are Latino, and over 90% were considered low income. I had a simple but ambitious goal: make certain that each student applied to and matriculated to college. Lloyd was not only a brilliant teacher, he was a great leader, mentoring novice teachers, providing advice and insight to the administrators who ran the school, developing our curriculum, and training our teachers. When Lloyd was teaching for us, every single student applied to college, was accepted and matriculated. Lloyd ignited this flame within students who didn't look like him and had little in common culturally---but they connected over their love of math, their common humanity, and their conviction that he was their biggest advocate.' As a result of his performance in the classroom and the performance of teachers under his direction, Lloyd was awarded Master Teacher status.