Name: Parkland teacher finds power, healing following deadly shooting by writing
Uploaded: 12/7/2019 5:47:50 PM
Duration: 251
Description: After losing students and colleagues in the deadly Parkland shooting, this English teacher found her voice in the written word.

After losing students and colleagues in Parkland shooting, teacher finds healing in writing

“My husband asked if I still felt safe at school [and] I said, ‘Of course I still feel safe! Nothing like that is ever going to happen here.’ Until it did.”

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