We start our series of episodes introducing you to our team at IDEA, starting with one of our founding team members, Linnea Bostrom. We met Linnea in the first year as we were planning the school before we opened. She reached out to us from a job posting for a Physics teacher and we met for coffee. She shared her story growing up in the Northeast, attending a private prep school (which we shared in common) and discovered her passion for physics in college. In this episode we talk about what motivates a teacher to get into public education, why they show up every day and what we can learn from failure.