"Health Care Professionals." NYSUT. A Union of Professionals. http://www.nysut.org Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:01:48 EST Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:01:48 EST 60 en-us Leadership Institute graduates say program strengthened life skills http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13921.htm Hundreds of Leadership Institute graduates have been elected to higher offices in their local unions, in labor councils and other union endeavors.

]]> 1679D41595084CF381E137AD98604E79 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:17:38 EST President's Perspective: Budget politics, promising programs affect quality http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13947.htm President Obama gets it. Earlier this month, he said: "There is nothing that will determine the quality of our future as a nation or the lives of our children more than the kind of education we provide them."

]]> 8AD0C0D3BC46485E89EE3893A003E720 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:38:53 EST When hostage crisis hit, safety plan worked http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13923.htm A parent, whose children had attended the Pine Plains schools in Dutchess County, took the high school principal hostage early on a Tuesday morning in November moments after assembling a shotgun in the school bathroom.

]]> F86DFACC5B5645CFA4C38AD36A367CEE Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:27 EST School psychologists construct coping skills http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13905.htm School psychologists learned about coping and hoping skills during professional development workshops at a recent conference of the New York Association of School Psychologists.

]]> B7895DB061A24A7F93F96F7D0997C817 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:28 EST Thank your House representatives for passing health care reform http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/legislation_13862.htm Over the weekend, 220 members of Congress showed they're on the side of working families and earned our thanks for passing landmark health care reform.

]]> BABE841A92684CAE915CA8E02BCC391C Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:14:33 EST President's Perspective: Reflecting on the state of our professions http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13854.htm I'm one who believes that every so often you need to stop and assess where you are — call it reflecting or taking stock — this seems like the right time to do it for me.

]]> 2EB82ADB553742818E6F8EACBF9FA799 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:41:12 EST Students start receiving vaccine as H1N1 flu sweeps schools http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13848.htm Schools throughout New York City began offering H1N1 vaccinations the last week in October in a tiered program that includes more schools in the five boroughs each week.

]]> E0E0EE470D2B4D7DB972E76F00FB3A6B Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:51:58 EST Treating another flu symptom: anxiety http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13847.htm The spread of H1N1 virus, and the proliferation of news about the illness, has created anxiety among students and parents.

]]> 06FC155F8B1D4F538182E32E2B60FAC4 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:42:19 EST ELT's new Professional Development Seminar Brochure http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/elt_12064.htm Check out ELT's comprehensive Professional Development Seminar Brochure and create your own professional development plan.

 

 

]]> 100842CD13D14BCEA36675C77939CFEB Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:40:09 EST State lifts requirement for flu vaccination http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13754.htm New York state has suspended a Health Department mandate that would have required most of the state's health care workers to be inoculated against H1N1 and seasonal flu or face loss of their jobs.

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