First Lady Laura Bush along with then library of librarian of congress and the current librarian of congress has continued. Carla it is so delightful to see people line up outside waiting to hear authors and get their books signed and all of these things. There is just so much excitement. After two years of being virtual, that was good for when we all had to hunker down, but being in person is just delightful. What is your role today . Carla my role is head cheerleader, and also to open up the main stage to actually get a chance to moderate a panel of young adult authors. This year we are having a stage for the young and young at heart, teenagers, specifically. The interesting part is we had a Youth Advisory Committee which could all happen during a pandemic, and they zoomed in through the country and gave us advice about authors they would like to hear from. They recommended the books and so i am just being led on to the stage but young people will be interviewing some of their favori
Come book bags being passed out. All sorts of events happening. We are pleased to be joined by elizabeth williamson, her book is sandy hook an american tragedy. She is a writer. How tough was a do it right book and to research it was it to write this book and research it . I owe a great debt to the families of the victims and were forthcoming with me and trusted me with the story. That was a privilege. This happened in 2012, the massacre. The families were not out there. They did not speak publicly very much. How did you get them to talk . Initially, a couple of them had made comments and actually those comments were used against them by conspiracy theorists. They did end up really kind of being quiet after a wild because you have to remember that these were private people. There were not public figures, they have never spoken to the media previously. Not all, but most. When they gave interviews, what they were completely unprepared for was the fact that conspiracy theorists who said t
She reached out to me to read it, to read a draft. And since i was trying to build dress and providing feedback, found the draft fresh. I found that, you know, i certainly pushed back in some areas. I think i did. That would be contested, but what was most attractive to me was, it is just about the future of race. Often we look backward in history. It is important, but focusing on the future. Fast forward to today. We have been thinking a lot about the new center, thinking about home again and reinvigorating our core strength, what makes us different. What are we uniquely situated to do . You know, we have relationships with the 11,000 black elected officials in the country. So certainly that is one thing we are situated to do. Thank you, david. Yonhap males of colored. We had the commission in 2005 and six. The joint center and really spearheading that. That along with the efforts of many others contributed to the my brothers Keepers Initiative that the president just announced. But P
Study network which was very, we were really drawn to this because, teachers are able to work in real time, and so they are forming goals, collaboratively, Planning Research lesson and conducting lesson and gathering evidence and using the evidence to improve the instructions and so it is live and collaborative but that is still happening in the same level this year, and we have 60 teachers participating, and this year, they were able to host a visit from Cuba University in japan, which is exciting across a Cultural Exchange with a couple of our elementary schools. And next year, there is going to be more focus on Capacity Building and teacher leader competencies. And they will be, you know, about the same amount of school sites, and about the same amount of teachers. But, what we have seen, what we have heard from miss irine is that there is a lot of flexibility and fluidty for the teachers who are participating and a lot of building capacity, and working together. The third thing tha
Second started this. Government proposals will be a disaster. A sector that is already in crisis. There is already hundred and 20,000 vacancies. There is a huge time at bat a section thats on the make it worse. Considerably worse. The met Office Issues a yellow weather warning for parts of england and wales , as communities brace themselves for more heavy rain in the aftermath of storm dennis. Hundreds of passengers are released from a cruise ship quarantined off japan for over two weeks, as more people on board test positive for coronavirus. The family of Caroline Flack releases an unpublished social media post she wrote days before she died saying her future had been swept away. Buckingham palace issues new details on the future status of prince harry and meghan the couple will officially step down as senior royals at the end of march. And, we bring you an exclusive report from vatican citys Sistine Chapel where tapestries created by the renaissance master raphael are to go on displa