About This Lesson
“I’m a mother. And I don’t know what to say.” As active shooter drills become integrated into schools across the country, students must grapple with the threat of school shootings. This is the case for ten-year-old Dezmond Floyd, who has an open discussion with his mother Tanai about what happens in his fifth grade class during his school’s active shooter drills. Dezmond explains step-by-step what his class has been taught to do during an active shooter situation. Directed by Richard O’Connor Executive Producers Dave Isay Rachel Hartman Producer Shelley Gorelik Audio Produced by Jud Esty-Kendall Jasmyn Belcher-Morris Supervising Sound Recordists Gautam Srikishan Alletta Cooper Animation by Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., LLC Design Taisiya Zaretskaya Animators Emmett Goodman Pilar Newton Art Production Natalie Greene Wanda Noonan Original Theme Music Joshua Abrams Theme Music Performed by Joshua Abrams Hamid Drake Marquis Hill Emmett Kelly Adam Thornburg Theme Music Mixed by Joshua Abrams Neil Strauch Outro Music “A Day in Port-Royal” by Ending Satellites From the Album And so sing the black birds (2013) Published by Ending Satellites Special Thanks Tanai Benard & Dezmond Floyd In Partnership with American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress NPR POV Funding Provided by Corporation for Public Broadcasting [logo] A private corporation funded by the American people. Copyright © StoryCorps 2018. All Rights Reserved.
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