(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. Various of Jahquille Ross walking into Alice Hart Charter School
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jahquille Ross, Chief of Talent, New Schools for New Orleans:
"I’m blessed that we were fortunate enough to evacuate. Other people, you know not everybody was but it just, it definitely taught me a lot at a young age. And I went to four schools in that one school year."
4. Various of Jahquille Ross walking through school, showing his first classroom
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jahquille Ross, Chief of Talent, 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 for students."
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Archive: New Orleans – 1 September 2005
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6. Various of woman walking through flooded street
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New Orleans – 30 July 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jahquille Ross, Chief of Talent, 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 when I was in high school really, you know, showed up in a way that inspired me to want to be that for another student."
8. Ross walks into old classroom, sits on stool
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jahquille Ross, Chief of Talent, New Schools for New Orleans:
"We’ve got to care for the student as a person before we impart knowledge. So 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
10. Close up of shoes walking through hallway
11. Chris Dier interacts with student
12. Wide of Dier speaking to class
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School Teacher:
"So that experience has most certainly shaped how I view teaching especially in terms of empathy for students and what they’re going through. 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."
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14. Various of armed air boat rescuer policing the area
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New Orleans – 12 August 2025
15. 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 in terms of, I had the clothes on my back and maybe a day or two change of clothes and my Walkman CD player and that was it."
16. Wide of Dier interacting with students
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School Teacher:
"Yeah, I want students to remember my classroom as a space where they felt seen and heard and that they belonged."
18. Mid of Dier interacting with students
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Dier, Benjamin Franklin High School Teacher:
20. Wide of Dier interacting 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.
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