Facing our Communal Failures: The Imperative of Tisha B’Av

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Dr. Shani Bechhofer

Dr. Shani Bechhofer is a Jewish educator with decades of experience serving as a teacher, principal, researcher, evaluator, professor, coach, and consultant.  Her PhD is from Northwestern University, and her oft-cited research on the Bais Yaakov movement has been academically influential.  As a social scientist and as a practitioner, her primary foci have been school change; school leadership; and the roles of classroom climate and school culture in supporting healthy student and teacher learning and growth.  At the core, the

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