I suggest your Head of School consult Bereshit Rabbah 1:10 (p. 9 in the Soncino Midrash), which begins, "... Why was the world created with a beth?". Another version may be consulted in the Zohar 1:2b-3b (p. 11-17, p. 16 specifically) in the Zohar: Pritzker Edition, v. 1, translation and commentary by Daniel C. Matt, Stanford, 2004). I would also check in the first v. of the Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzburg.
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