Crisis, Trauma, Healing & Forgiveness - Former Principal of N. Hopewell-Winterstown Elem. School

Norina Bentzel was the principal of North Hopewell-Winterstown Elementary School in the Red Lion School District in February 2001 when a man wielding a machete entered the school and randomly attacked 23 kindergarten children, 2 teachers, and herself. She is a York County native and a 1981 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in Elementary Education and a minor in science. She received her Master's Degree in Education in 1998 and earned her Administrative Certification in 1999. Norina retired from public education in June 2017. Other than being in education for 36 years, the first 18 as a teacher and the last 18 as an administrator, Norina is married, is a mother of 3 children, and a grandmother to 2. 

Norina brings important insight and observations about leadership and ongoing support in times of crisis and has written a book on the memoirs of this event that altered her life forever.