Amy Meltzer Named to HaKeveret: JEIC Team Challenge

The lead kindergarten teacher at Lander-Grinspoon Academy in Northampton has been selected to serve as a member of HaKaveret: JEIC Team Challenge.

In this role, Amy Meltzer will help design pioneering and creative models for Jewish day school education as part of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge.

HaKevert: JEIC Team Challenge for the first time has convened a group of creative, talented and motivated individuals from around the country to form an innovation design team with a focus on creating a new vision in Jewish day school education.

The inaugural team consists of 10 designers from a variety of backgrounds related to education, Judaism or psychology. The diversity of experience in this collaborative effort will help foster creative thinking and influence change.

Meltzer was nominated to participate in this challenge.

“As a teacher in a suburban — almost rural Jewish community — I’m so excited to get to dream about the future of Jewish Day School education with creative, pioneering educators from all across the country,” Meltzer said in a press release. “I am looking forward to meeting my colleagues and brainstorming together to create new models of Jewish education. I especially can’t wait to see our ideas piloted in schools over the next few years.”

Meltzer has been part of the Lander-Grinspoon Academy faculty since 1997, has authored two children’s books and was a 2015 recipient of the Covenant Teaching Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.