Let's return now to our ongoing coverage of the wildfires that tore through Southern California last month.

Amid all the devastation, thousands of children also had their education disrupted.

At least a dozen schools were burned or so badly damaged that kids can't return anytime soon.

William Brangham recently spent time with teachers and students from one elementary

school in Altadena, California to better understand how educators keep moving forward in the middle of a disaster zone.

We don't want to miss the bus, do we? Parents rush to get kids on the bus. Students are greeted as they head into class.

It has the look and feel of a normal school day for Rosebud Elementary in Altadena, California.

But it's not because this is Rosebud today.

What was once a small charter school is now an unrecognizable pile of twisted metal,

ash, and rubble. It's one of the more than 9,000 buildings that were consumed by the massive

eaten fire a month ago. Melted desks, a charred water fountain, warped playground equipment, there are just a few hints of what this place used to be.

Our school burned down on January 7th in the middle of the night, and my house is literally one mile from the school and it also burned.

Good morning.

Sean Brown runs Rosebud Elementary.

So we had about 35 students who lost their home, whose homes burned completely down.

35 out of how many?

Out of 175.

Wow, so big percentage of kids.

That was a big percentage of kids.

And then we had another roughly 29 students who were displaced and were just scrambling to find

somewhere to go.

So how do you instill a sense of security and safety for kids who had both stolen from them by these fires?

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