Rona Novick is the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and holds the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values. In addition, Dr. Novick serves as the Co-Educational Director of the Hidden Sparks program which provides professional development to day schools and Yeshivas. Dr. Novick developed and served as the director of the Alliance for School Mental Health at North-Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where she authored the BRAVE bully prevention program. Along with scholarly publications on, bullying and trauma, special education, Jewish education, parenting, positive psychology and social emotional learning, she is the author of Helping Your Child Make Friends, and editor of the series Kids Don’t Come With Instruction Manuals. Her blog: Life’s Tool Box can be found at lifestoolbox.wordpress.com.

Her children’s book Mommy, Can You Stop the Rain was published by Apples and Honey Press in 2019.