Beth Huppin Receives National Covenant Award

We would like to congratulate Beth Huppin, a Judaic Studies teacher at the Seattle Jewish Community School, on being chosen to receive one of three Covenant Awards granted nationally each year. We also thank her for her dedication and commitment to our Jewish community.

Every year the Covenant Foundation awards the prestigious Covenant Award to three educators across the country for their commitment to excellence and for designing innovative approaches making lasting impact on students, community and Jewish education. Each recipient will receive $36,000, and each of their institutions will receive $5,000. The Covenant Award gives deserved recognition to those doing extraordinary, innovative and impactful work on the ground. Their daily work, often uncelebrated, touches Jews of all ages seeking inclusion and fulfillment in Jewish life, immeasurably strengthening Jewish community and continuity. Each of the awardees has made it his or her life's work to call students to action and encourage them to live lives of engagement.

Beth Huppin has taught day school Judaic Studies at the Seattle Jewish Community School since 1995 and is currently a fifth-grade teacher there. She is also a middle school and adult education teacher at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle.

Huppin is widely recognized by colleagues, students, parents and others in the community as an inspiring teacher and leader who puts her stamp on Jewish education by injecting Jewish values and action - both in and out of the classroom - into curricula and the lives of her students. She regularly calls her students to action. Once a month, for example, she takes her fifth-grade students at Seattle Jewish Community School to serve meals to homeless persons, and participants have described the experience as transformative.

Huppin has had a critical impact on the Seattle Jewish Community School's educational philosophy, has played a guiding role in the development of the Judaic curriculum, and is a mentor to new teachers.

Congratulations!