About the Series

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs and Student Television Network investigate how schools across the country are rethinking what it means to feel safe and be safe at school.

REBUILDING SANDY HOOK

Our Lab in Hartford, Connecticut interviewed the architects of the new Sandy Hook School and report on how the building aims to rehabilitate the community by being both welcoming and top of the line with embedded security features hidden by natural features.

Editors: Kyle Van Dam and Tikeyah Whittle
Interviewers: Marc Schielein and Kareemah Muhammad
Narrator: Robert Trotta
Videographers: Matt Fahey, Kareemah Muhammad, Wilfredo Rivera, Karren Saldi, Kyle Van Dam and Tikeyah Whittle
Writers: Ayeisha Priester, Kyle Van Dam and Tikeyah Whittle

SRL advisers: Paul Pfeffer and Tikeyah Whittle

Produced with mentor support from Connecticut Public Broadcasting.

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The New Safe: Inside the Battle for School Safety

About Us

Student Reporting Labs connect students with a network of public broadcasting mentors, an innovative journalism curriculum and an online collaborative space to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports.

Student Television Network was started in 1999 by a group of teachers who wanted to support and encourage scholastic broadcasting and to provide a forum for teachers to share ideas, ask questions, and learn from professionals in the industry. Over the past 15 years, STN has expanded to include film, media and other forms of communication taught in high schools and middle schools.

American Graduate: Let’s Make it Happen is public media’s long-term commitment to supporting community-based solutions to the dropout crisis. Supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), more than 80 public radio and television stations have joined forces with over 1,000 partners and at-risk schools across 30 states.