Linda Krystek has been an educator for over 20 years, serving as an elementary teacher, Director of Home Study, and currently the Director of Innovation in Teaching and Learning for iLEAD Schools on the iCA Maker Team. She holds both a California Multiple-Subject and Administrative Services credential. She is a dedicated, innovative, and results-oriented education professional with proven leadership skills, expertise in curriculum, and a strong commitment to unleashing the potential in each facilitator and learner. A teacher’s teacher, Linda believes firmly that high expectations and building strong relationships among the school’s facilitators, children, parents, and administration is the key to a successful school culture and community that nurtures academic and social-emotional growth for all learners.
Fun Fact:
Who was your most unique pet?
I have had several unique class pets over the course of my tenure as an elementary teacher, including a pair of hamsters named Chip and Dale, Scotty Scorpion (found in the boys’ bathroom upstairs), Speedy the turtle, Blueberry (a blue belly lizard missing his tail that one of my learners rescued), an anole, a pair of walking sticks, a Jerusalem beetle we found during lunch outside, and the overall favorite, Honey Bunny.