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NYSUT Communications
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Members of the Saugerties Teachers Association in Ulster County have turned the tailgate party from a social event to a social justice event. For the past two years, the teachers and staff at Saugerties...
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Tuesday, 04 February 2014
When pianist Penny Prince starting teaching music at Public School 37 years ago, she wrote original music for up to nine shows a year, for which her students wrote the scripts. “I loved my job...
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Friday, 20 December 2013
Believe … Dream … Inspire … Anthony Tussie, a middle school health teacher and member of the Hicksville Congress of Teachers for 11 years, had a wish on his “bucket list” fulfilled this Thanksgiving...
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Tuesday, 03 December 2013
  School nurse treats more than student illness When the Schoharie Valley in upstate New York was flooded in Hurricane Irene in the fall of 2011, Sherry Roy, Schoharie Elementary School nurse, lost electricity for a...
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Friday, 08 November 2013
Cooperstown teacher offers farm-fresh curriculum There is a growing movement in the restaurant and food industries called “ farm-to–table” and “farm-to-fork.”  But Cooperstown teacher Amy Parr is all about farm-to–first-class. Parr’s class, that is. She takes...
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Thursday, 17 October 2013
“For it is in giving that we receive.” - St. Francis of Assisi She turns worry into water. When Karen Flewelling of Saratoga saw the lengths people in Third World countries go to in order to...
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Tuesday, 20 August 2013
If you piled up Long Island librarian Amy Jo Southworth’s ideas, they would reach higher than the school library stacks. Allowing more books to be taken out of the library at one time, starting a...
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Friday, 16 August 2013
At the beginning of the last school year, I found myself working with two very different young men in the same classroom. The first boy seemed to have very little interest in education and...
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Thursday, 15 August 2013
The Warwick Valley Teachers' Association awarded $10,000 in scholarships to seven high school seniors at Warwick Valley High School's recent awards night ceremony. The students were selected through a competitive application process. “Each recipient has...
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Friday, 12 July 2013
Student-scientists take to the river By Justine Davies This year, I wanted my students to discover a local ecosystem in their own backyard and to become citizen-scientists in evaluating the health of this local environment. Since the...
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