How experiences as Katrina evacuees shaped these people as New Orleans educators

(24 Aug 2025)
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Archive: New Orleans – 1 September 2005
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1. Various of street flooding, helicopters in the sky

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New Orleans – 30 July 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jahquille Ross, Chief of Talent, New Schools for New Orleans:
"We were fortunate enough to evacuate. Not everybody was. And I went to four schools in that one school year."

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Archive: New Orleans – 1 September 2005
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3. Mid of woman walking through flooded street

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New Orleans – 30 July 2025
4. Various of Jahquille Ross walking into Alice Hart Charter School
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jahquille Ross, Chief of Talent at New Schools for New Orleans:
"At the age of twelve in 2003, my mom and sister passed away in a very tragic car accident. I think that experience in 2003 also with the experience of going through Hurricane Katrina in 2005 played a big part into how I showed up in the in the classroom as a teacher."
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jahquille Ross, Chief of Talent at New Schools for New Orleans:
"Those were big moments for me as a child. So I think about the other educators that came along the way that inspired me to want to be that for another student."
7. Ross shows what was his first classroom and walks in, sits on stool
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jahquille Ross, Chief of Talent at New Schools for New Orleans:
"I just challenge educators to show up each and every day for our students. In most cases the school is their safe haven."

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New Orleans – 12 August 2025
9. Close up of shoes walking through hallway
10. Chris Dier interacting with a student
11. Dier speaking to class
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School Teacher:
"There’s not a day in my life that goes by that I don’t think about Katrina in a direct or indirect way because of the impact that it had on me as a 17 year old."

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Archive: New Orleans – 1 September 2005
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13. Various of armed air boat rescuer policing the area

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New Orleans – 12 August 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School Teacher:
"So it was, it was a traumatizing experience for a 17 year old. You have to switch schools. You have to almost start your life anew but with nothing. We had we had no possessions."

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Archive: New Orleans – 1 September 2005
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15. Mid of woman walking through flooded street

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New Orleans – 12 August 2025
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School Teacher:
"I always think of what would the teachers do that were there for me during Katrina in these moments and then I try to replicate that."
17. Various of Dier interacting with students in class
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School Teacher:
"I want students to remember my classroom as a space where they felt seen and heard and that they belonged."

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New Orleans – 12 August 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School Teacher:
"But I always try to use my trauma that I have for positive good because it helps me heal as well."
20. Wide of Dier working with students
STORYLINE:
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed the face of education in New Orleans forever, making it the first and only all-charter school district in the country.

Two years later, he was forced to evacuate with his remaining family as a category five hurricane was approaching.

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