Why Plan?
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Discover how Texas school districts were affected by Hurricanes Katrina & Rita and listen to the story
of their successes and surprises as they faced helping 45,000 student evacuees statewide.
Why Plan? School-Centered Emergency Management
Executive Producer Kay Karr, Responsive Learning
Executive Producer Kay Karr, Responsive Learning
Why Plan? is an award-winning, 25 minute video of how Texas schools responded to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It explores the challenges that Texas school districts faced during and after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Responsive Learning, along with an extremely talented team of professionals, set forth on a mission to create a documentary to capture the story of how school districts were affected by the impact of the hurricanes, how they dealt with them, and the lessons they learned in the process.
Areas around Beaumont, Texas, suffered a direct hit from Rita, just 3 short weeks after being overwhelmed with the thousands of evacuees from Louisiana, who had been in the direct path of hurricane Katrina and sought refuge in the nearest Texas communities. School districts in East Texas found themselves trying to cope with the needs of these evacuees pouring into Texas. Shortly thereafter these same Texas communities and school districts found themselves and the evacuees they had been sheltering forced to flee from the destructive path of hurricane Rita. Learn how they responded.
Areas around Beaumont, Texas, suffered a direct hit from Rita, just 3 short weeks after being overwhelmed with the thousands of evacuees from Louisiana, who had been in the direct path of hurricane Katrina and sought refuge in the nearest Texas communities. School districts in East Texas found themselves trying to cope with the needs of these evacuees pouring into Texas. Shortly thereafter these same Texas communities and school districts found themselves and the evacuees they had been sheltering forced to flee from the destructive path of hurricane Rita. Learn how they responded.
"Why Plan?" was produced by schools for schools with the generous support from the Central Texas School Safety Consortium.
Kay Karr was the Executive Producer and is the President of Responsive Learning.
Chuck Wolf was the Director and Jim Zura was the Videographer from Zura Productions.
Kay Karr was the Executive Producer and is the President of Responsive Learning.
Chuck Wolf was the Director and Jim Zura was the Videographer from Zura Productions.
Videographer Jim Zura and his production associates traveled through Texas to capture the story of how school districts were affected by the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, how they dealt with them, and the lessons learned in the process. Areas around Beaumont suffered a direct hit from Rita. Districts in East Texas were overwhelmed as tens of thousands of fleeing motorists converged on schools, seeking food and shelter. The team conducted interviews with 18 key people; including district superintendents, district staff, and government officials in producing this 25-minute documentary.
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