Teacher Sarah Lerner (top left), Dr. Joseph Sakran (bottom left) and teacher Meleah Hall (right) during the PBS NewsHour EXTRA Zoom discussion on gun violence, Feb. 17, 2021.
If you are a school faculty or staff member and would like to sign up for NewsHour EXTRA's Educator Zooms, click here . On Feb. 17, NewsHour EXTRA held its Educator Zoom series with Dr. Joseph Sakran , gun violence survivor and trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and founder of #ThisIsOurLane , and Sarah Lerner , teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and editor/author of "Parkland Speaks." Also joining us was school nurse and Rutgers lecturer Robin Cogan . The PBS conversation was hosted by Sari Beth Rosenberg , NYC public school teacher, and was attended by more than one-hundred educators. Also joining the conversation was guest Dr. Gary Rosenberg , a child/adolescent psychiatrist who helped frame gun violence as a public health and mental health problem. The conversation was focused on gun violence in society as a whole, not just school shootings, but as part of a larger public health crisis of gun violence. You can watch the full session here, or summary highlights below. Full Zoom:If you would like to contribute to Educator Voice, NewsHour EXTRA's blog on how current events affect life for educators including school personnel, please send your idea to Vic Pasquantonio at vpasquantonio@newshour.org.
