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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this two-part series we revisit Bailey's Elementary school on the outskirts of Washington, DC, to watch and listen as accomplished teachers of students in grades 3 through 5 confer with students about their writing. Program 1, The Essentials of conferring, covers a range of topics, including active listening, knowing your writers, management, predictable problems, and peer conferences. Program 2, Refining your conference skills, takes teachers...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
You can read books or attend workshops about how to teach writing, but there's no substitute for seeing master teachers put ideas into practice with real kids. When students write takes us into the classrooms at Bailey's Elementary School in the outskirts of Washington, DC, where teachers wrestle with the questions of what it means to become an effective writer and what is a teacher's role in developing students' competence as writers. The four videos...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
It's the world's most powerful residence, where decisions affecting millions of Americans are made. But the White House is also home--a warm and welcoming refuge for the presidential family. Join us on an insider's tour to meet the people who make the world's most famous house a home. Loyal staff--maids, assistants, ushers, valets, butlers, chefs, plumbers, engineers, florists and others who have worked under multiple presidents--share unique and...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Where in Washington DC is the nation's most incredible treasure chest? It's a library unlike any other in the world, the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Modern Marvels explodes the myth that this 200 year old institution is simply "where members of Congress borrow books". Viewers are taken beyond the magnificent Jefferson Building Great Hall into the secret vaults where more than 600 miles of shelves hold 130 million items, many of them...
Pub. Date
2003, ℗♭1996.
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers inside the White House for a tour, discussing the history and significance of the building, featuring views of the living quarters and other rooms off-limits to tourists, and including a look at how employees support its inner workings, as well as interviews with presidential families.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"NBC's Brian Williams and his team bring you a day in the life of the Obama administration, showing it in action, up close. Williams attends the key meetings, and conducts candid one-on-one conversations with the decision-makers, including President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and the president's inner circle. Here, as never before, you'll find a fascinating, richly detailed first-hand look at how this White House really works". -- NBC website....
13) White House pets
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of more than 400 presidential pets that have lived in the White House over the course of 200 years.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
National Geographic follows Pete Souza, the President's photographer inside the Obama White House, aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union, and into the heart of the West Wing. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency and a chance to see what it's like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for history. Features intimate interviews with President Obama.
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