It’s the start of a new school year for most of us right now, so I figured: what better way to celebrate the amazing work our kids’ teachers do than share a conversation I’ve had with one?

Rissie Lundberg is a math teacher at an all-girls high school, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and she’s part of a mathematics department made up entirely of women — which is actually pretty rare, even in a girls’ school. She absolutely adores what she does, both getting her hands dirty in math, and inspiring girls to love it as much as she does.

Notes From This Episode:

• Rissie’s school and Instagram
• Rissie’s Instagram
• Tsh (me) on Instagram and Twitter
• The Calculus of Friendship, by Steven Strogatz
• Educated, by Tara Westover
• The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
• Wonder, by RJ Palacio
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