Certifications

What I Love About Akiva
Akiva is like a family for me, I enjoy seeing the children grow and make huge progress in language.

Certifications
ELL

What I Love About Akiva
Akiva is a warm and electric community.  Whether painting or writing, I love feeling the joy in the room when students are creating.  Akiva provides an environment where children can pursue their unique interests and feel safe to share their perspectives about the world.  Having a growth mindset is a core value for both staff and students.  I am always learning and growing at Akiva!

Certifications

• Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (N.S.C.A.)
• Personal Trainer (A.C.E.)
• USA Cycling Coach

What I Love About Akiva
Teaching kids to embrace an active lifestyle. Giving all kids a chance to be athletic. I love playing & sports!

Certifications

• Reading Specialist Endorsement

What I Love About Akiva
I love when a child’s face lights up when he/she figures out a new strategy, solves a challenging problem, or improves on a project.

Certifications
Highly Qualified Status Grades 3-8

What I Love About Akiva
Akiva is an environment that purposefully creates moments of wonder and what if, why not now, and how can we achieve more. We value and provide opportunities for communicating effectively, innovative thinking and to demonstrate confidence in one’s abilities and the abilities of their team. We prepare our students for the community and world they will lead.

Certifications

• Highly Qualified Status in All Middle School Subjects, Special Education K-12

• Reading Specialist Endorsement

What I Love About Akiva
I love being apart of a community and a school that ensures that every child is loved, supported, and challenged in new ways every day. Unlike any other program I have worked in, Akiva does everything possible to ensure that ‘the whole child’ is being nourished.

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• Highly Qualified Status Grades K-6

What I Love About Akiva
Akiva provides students with a nurturing environment in which they feel comfortable being themselves while taking on new challenges. Students explore what it means to be a Jew, an American, and a global citizen while learning how to express themselves as individuals. I feel so blessed to be a part of this amazing community.

What I Love About Akiva
I feel blessed to be at Akiva because of the teamwork amongst the faculty members and the ability to tailor our curriculum to meet each child’s needs.

Certifications

• Reading Specialization 6-12

What I Love About Akiva

Akiva is a place that encourages students and teachers to follow their passions. The small class sizes make it easy for teachers to give students the help and attention they deserve.

What I Love About Akiva
At Akiva, everyone is  supported to become their best self—students and teachers alike.

• Continued Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Current Member of Yeshivat Maharat Kollel Track

What I Love About Akiva
Akiva is this unusual community that puts every child at the center. It is a place where children are nurtured and loved and a place where they are challenged to be curious, to wonder, to take risks and to have moral courage. I am inspired every day by the children, the parents and the faculty. It is a community and a family and a space for every child’s spark to be ignited.

Certifications

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Play Therapy
• Drama Therapy
• Expressive Arts Therapy
• Mindfulness
• Responsive Classroom

What I Love About Akiva
I truly love Akiva for a plethora of reasons. Ever since I arrived in Nashville from Los Angeles in January, I have incredibly welcomed, appreciated, supported, and valued. The faculty, parents, and students have been absolutely amazing and loving! In all of my 14 years of working at different schools, I’ve never experienced such a strong sense of family as I do at Akiva. As a Jew myself, I feel like I’m home. I feel so fortunate, honored, and blessed to be able to incorporate Jewish Studies into my Social-Emotional lessons. Akiva has allowed me the freedom to bring the arts into my techniques and practices with students. My professional experience at Akiva is unlike anything I’ve I’ve ever encountered and for that, I am forever grateful. L’chaim!

Certifications
California State Teaching Credential 

What I Love About Akiva
I am so excited to join the Avika School Team! I am looking forward to an incredible year ahead and cannot wait to learn and grow with my class.

Certifications

• Certified Psychodramatist
• Creative Arts Therapist

What I Love About Akiva

Akiva is a microcosmos of the Jewish community of Nashville. It is small, diverse, warm and inclusive. I appreciate that it lets me take part in and support the process of building an academically, and emotionally strong future Jewish community.

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