Meet Our Founders
The IKR founders are also its executive directors and voting members of the board of directors, collaboratively leading the day-to-day workings and operations of International Kindness Reset (IKR).
Amy N Spangler, M.Ed., MN, USA
Notably known as a servant leader, Amy carefully listens to and engages others through authentic collaboration, shared leadership, and grit. For most of her career, Amy was PreK-8 public school principal with a reputation for her unwavering drive to always do what is best for children and ability to transform school communities by collaboratively working on missions to markedly improve the schools’ culture, paving the way for students to make significant academic gains. She also served school communities in roles such as a teacher, gifted & talented program director and professional developer, director of strategic planning, and adjunct professor. Her leadership talents enabled Amy to successfully lead a special initiative designed to transform public education in Oregon. As a senior director, she and her team developed/delivered learning for nearly 30,000 teachers and leaders within a privately held PreK-12 education corporation. A devoted volunteer, Amy works with seniors in a care facility and helps in a fourth-grade classroom each week; she has also led several nonprofit organizations in the past. Amy is the primary coauthor of “Connect with Kindness: Child-Generated, Teacher Friendly SEL Curricula” (2023 & 2025) and “Connect with Kindness at Home A Guidebook for Parents and Families” (2025). Very recently she has presented at multiple international conferences and has taught as a guest professor at the University of Turin in Italy each spring since 2023. She has authored several articles/chapters for distinguished magazines/books including peer-reviewed journals. Together with Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady, Amy is the Cofounder and Co-Executive Director of International Kindness Reset.
Amy N Spangler, M.Ed, MN, USA
Very recently, in 2023, Amy presented at 3 international conferences and taught together with Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady as a guest professor at the University of Turin in Italy. She serves on a non-profit board raising funds for homeless Veterans and is a volunteer advocate for children with special needs. She has authored several articles/chapters for distinguished books and publications. She is the primary coauthor of Connect with Kindness: Child-Generated, Teacher Friendly Supplementary SEL Curricula (2023), which is currently being used world-wide. Amy is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of International Kindness Reset. Amy measures her success through the children whose lives she has valiantly served.
