A elementary school gym teacher must think quickly when he and his students hear a gunshot from within the school.

A sheriff tries to figure out where the schoolchildren have disappeared to after a shooting.

When an English teacher learns a former student has gone on a shooting spree, she finds the story he wrote in her class, and begins to wonder if she should have seen the signs of what was to come.

After 300,000 teens and young adults commit mass suicide, a student pursuing their PhD investigates what caused the Year of Suicide, forcing them to relive their trauma and navigate the process of healing from so much death.

After a school shooting, a teacher and her students struggle to process the trauma and constant fear of death lurking around the corner at any moment. The presence of death looming carries over into the teacher's personal life, including her book club and the friends who attend it.

In a time fraught with fear surrounding school shootings, a parent struggles to hone her anxiety into a productive tool for protecting her children. But after devoting a decade of her life to developing a quantum simulation program, she learns that the answer she has been seeking is far simpler than she could have ever guessed. How does an anxious parent reconcile their desire to protect their children with the risks of interfering with the simulation of the known world? That is the question the narrator seeks to answer, confronting the inadequacy of fear and preparation in a time of bone-chilling crisis.

In a school full of refugees and immigrants in early 2000s America, a teacher shares his traumas with his math class. Meanwhile, a cop tries to prevent a young Vietnamese boy from murdering a fellow student.

In an America overrun with guns, a mother tries to get her family to see the Fourth of July fireworks with her.

Keisha's son attends a bankrupt public school system where the all-white teaching staff are abusive and physically violent towards the majority-black student body. She'll do anything to give her child a better life, even if it means forging papers that say she lives in a different neighborhood.

A young, optimist white teacher in New York takes a job at an all-Black school, determined to break through to his students and properly teach them, despite being stuck in a school system that has continually failed them.