If you walked through the halls of Apalachee High, it would look like any other school: teachers teaching, students learning.

But a year after two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting there, there’s still hurt and ongoing work to heal at the Barrow County school.

“You’re going to see students really involved in collaborating and wanting to learn,” said Principal Jessica Rehberg, “but at the end of the day, that takes a lot more energy than it did before because we’re sitting in trauma and grief.”

That’s why the district hired Kelcie Zimmer , a licensed master social worker who started her career in the Division of Family & Children Services, as its recovery coordinator. She’s the point person for all things healing after the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting. When she started in

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