Publications Catalog

5 Union Values

NYSUT Values: Good jobs, health care, justice, voice, public schools.  Proudly display our union's values with this poster.

Q&A: Answers to your questions about federal changes for unions and union members

Answers to your questions about federal changes for unions and union members

This brochure outlines briefly what happened in the Janus case. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask your local union president.

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NYSUT Research and Educational Services

Did you know NYSUT’s Research and Educational Services (R&ES) team can help you navigate complex state certification regulations, connect you to high-quality professional development and keep you up to date on the latest educational issues?

What every NYSUT member should know

This guide provides new members with an overview of NYSUT. While much of the information relates to issues of concern to pre-K-12 members, information of interest to other constituencies is included, as well. 

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NYSUT Membership What it means for you

As a NYSUT member, you benefit economically and professionally from the collective strength of the union. As a NYSUT member, you help build the union’s collective strength through activism and community service. This guide will help you understand the many aspects of NYSUT membership that will help you with your career and beyond.

The Faces of Fatigue - Trifold

Are you feeling completely exhausted, helpless and disillusioned? These symptoms could explain a multitude of conditions which impact our ability to gather up the energy to take pride in our work, enjoy the company of family and friends, and feel respected and valued. Examine the faces of fatigue, what they are and what you can do about it.

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Resilience: Do We Succumb or Surmount?

Research has shown that we all have the capacity to be quite resilient in the face of adversity. It really isn’t that extraordinary and people commonly demonstrate resilience because it is not a trait that people have or do not have. Research has identified several factors that make someone resilient. This guide covers some of those factors.

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Caregiving Guide

Caregiving for a loved one — be it an aging parent or disabled spouse or child — can be both a privilege and a burden. The information in this handout will help you recognize options and make decisions that will ultimately make caregiving a little easier.

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Buy American Guide

Buy American. Buy Union Made. This list of resources is supplied as a helpful guide to products that are union-made and made in America, but does not imply endorsement or guarantee by NYSUT.

Educator's Voice XI: Family Engagement and Community Partnerships

This volume features these important initiatives by individuals and teams engaged in cultivating more robust relationships across our school communities.

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Forgotten Schools - Poster #1

New York State’s Special Act and 853 schools – which educate students with unique physical and emotional needs – are in dire need of more state resources. Raise awareness with this poster.

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Forgotten Schools - Poster #2

New York State’s Special Act and 853 schools – which educate students with unique physical and emotional needs – are in dire need of more state resources. Raise awareness with this poster.

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Teacher Centers Flier

Providing educators with customized Continuing Teacher & Leader Education to ensure that students are college, career and citizen-ready.

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What you need to know about protecting yourself

Education professionals can find themselves in situations, some routine and some very rare, where they are vulnerable. Here are specific suggestions to help you ensure your professional and personal safety.

Alphabet Soup: A Guide to Commonly Used Acronyms

From ACA to WSRM, this guide to acronyms is a handy trifold brochure designed to help you navigate the often confusing alphabet soup used in the education union world.

Educators Voice X - Engaging All Learners through Content Area Instruction

The practices presented here remind us that meaningful instruction has many different forms and contexts. Content instruction is a pivotal part of a balanced curriculum intended to nurture the whole child and to prepare aspiring minds to think, inquire, and engage.  See more Educator's Voice issues.

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Read Books rack card

Read Books rack cards promote NYSUT's relationship with AFT's First Book program.  Books are made available at low to no cost to Title 1 eligible schools and building programs in high needs districts, and nonprofit programs serving low-income families and kids in need.

10 things to remember when preparing for a parent-teacher conference

One of the most frequently requested seminars offered by the union’s Education & Learning Trust is “Parent-Teacher Conference: Strategies for Success.” In the two-hour session, veteran-teacher instructors cover strategies and tips that apply to any grade-level teacher. The seminar topics include creating an effective environment and gathering documents for meetings with parents.

Smart Start - quality preschool education is important!

A resource to inform parents and teachers about the qualities of a strong early childhood educational program.

Anti-Bullying Cards

This two-sided rack card has tips and suggestions for kids, teachers and parents on how to address bullying.

Health Education Physical Education and Family Consumer Sciences

A Family Guide to Learning Standards in Health Education, Physical Education and Family & Consumer Sciences. Health Education, Physical Education  and Family and Consumer Sciences teachers focus on learning activities  that foster skills for living and enable students to become competent, confident, and responsible adults and, therefore, enhance the quality of their lives and communities.

Ensuring Success for English Language Learners (ELLs): What Parents Should Know - English Version

This guide explains the supports schools are required to provide that will help your child while learning English as a New Language (ENL - formerly known as ESL).

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Garantizar el éxito de los estudiantes de inglés como nuevo idioma: Lo que los padres deben saber - Versión en español

Esta guía explica los apoyos que las escuelas están obligadas a brindar y que le ayudarán a su hijo a aprender Inglés como Nuevo Idioma (por sus siglas en inglés, "ENL").

This guide explains the supports schools are required to provide that will help your child while learning English as a New Language (ENL - formerly known as ESL).

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Bookmark: Quick Link to Parents ELL Guide / Marcador: Cómo acceder a la guía para padres de estudiantes bilingües (Spanish version)

This printable Spanish-language bookmark features a link where families can download the Spanish version of the following guide: Ensuring Success for English Language Learners: What Parents Should Know.

Este marcador ofrece un enlace para ver y descargar la versión en español de la guía impresa, Garantizar el éxito de los estudiantes de inglés como nuevo idioma: Lo que los padres deben saber.

Bookmark Fired up about reading

Bookmark to encourage young readers: ""See why these kids are fired up about reading at www.nysut.org"

Understanding School Discipline Practices

No doubt about it. Discipline is one of the biggest challenges facing schools today. Everyone is involved, not just the schools — parents, students and the entire community. This tri-fold brochure will help parents better understand how schools are facing the challenges of discipline in a modern age. 

It also provides tips for what parents can do to reduce discipline problems for their children.

Dealing with Stress, Backpack Safety Tips

Two-sided rack card: 1) Helping kids manage back-to-school stress and anxiety.  2) School shouldn't be a pain! Backpack safety tips.

Pick a Reading Partner

Learning to read is the single most important activity in a child’s education.
Pick A Reading Partner is a reading program in which parents, teachers and community organizations work together to encourage children to become better readers.

Anti-Bullying Cards

This two-sided rack card has tips and suggestions for kids, teachers and parents on how to address bullying.

Read Books - NYSUT/AFT First Book Poster

Read Books! Poster with details about AFT's First Book program, which helps available at low to no cost to Title 1 eligible schools and building programs in high-needs districts, and nonprofit programs serving low-income families and kids in need.

Workplace Bullying

Are you being bullied? Not all bullying happens to young people. This poster helps raise awareness about workplace bullying.

Flu Posters

Help spread awareness, not germs! Set of three simple, letter-sized posters to hang in your classroom or workplace, with tips for staying safe during flu season. (Download pdf to view all three posters.)

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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage - Ke Huy Quan

Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, won the 2023 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Waymond Wang in the science fiction film “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Quan is one of only two actors of Asian descent to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Academy Award.

Double-sided poster in English and Mandarin.

Native American Heritage - Lily Gladstone

NYSUT celebrates Native American Heritage Month, Nov. 1–30, with a poster honoring Lily Gladstone, a Native American actress of Blackfeet and Nimíipuu heritage. Gladstone grew up in Montana on the Blackfeet Nation reservation and made her 2012 film debut in Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian. She later went on to collaborate with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt in Certain Women in 2016 and First Cow in 2019. In 2023, Gladstone played a leading role in Martin Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon. For her portrayal of a rancher in Certain Women, Gladstone was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Gotham Independent Film Award.

Native American Heritage - Quannah Chasinghorse-Potts

Quannah Chasinghorse-Potts is a Native American model and fourth-generation land protector for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She is known for her traditional face tattoos and makes a point of celebrating Indigenous fashion and promoting sustainable Indigenous brands.

NYSUT is proud to partner with the Indigenous community in ensuring a quality education and future for all students.

Hispanic Heritage - Rita Moreno

NYSUT celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a new poster honoring Rita Moreno, an actress, dancer, and singer whose stage and screen career spans over seven decades. One of the last remaining stars from the golden age of Hollywood, in 1961 Moreno became the first Latina to win an Academy Award for her role as Anita in West Side Story. Moreno is one of only 18 EGOT award winners, performers who have received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards, and one of only 24 to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, winning Academy, Emmy and Tony Awards.

The poster is available for download in English-language and Spanish-language versions; limited quantities are free for NYSUT members and leaders at the statewide union’s online publications ordering catalog.

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Hispanic Heritage - Jorge Ramos

NYSUT celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a new poster honoring Mexican-American journalist and author Jorge Ramos. Known as “The Walter Cronkite of Latin America,” he is the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States. Based in Miami, Florida, Ramos anchors the Univision news television program Noticiero Univision; the Univision Sunday morning political news program Al Punto; and the Fusion TV English language program America with Jorge Ramos. He has covered five wars and events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the war in Afghanistan. Over the course of his career, Ramos interviewed several world leaders including Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chávez.

The poster is available for download in English-language and Spanish-language versions; limited quantities are free for NYSUT members and leaders at the statewide union’s online publications ordering catalog.

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Hispanic Heritage - Maria Hinojosa

Maria Hinojosa is the longtime host and executive HERITAGE producer of Latino USA, the longest running national Latino news and cultural public radio program. The Mexican-born Hinojosa is also the founder, president and CEO of Futuro Media Group, which produces the show.

In 2011, Hinojosa became the first Latina to anchor a Frontline report on PBS, Lost in Detention, a documentary exploring the issue of deportation and immigrant detention and abuse. She is also the executive producer of America By the Numbers With Maria Hinojosa, which examined America’s changing demographics and the stories behind them.

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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez (English-language)

Jennifer “J-Lo” Lopez and Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez are a classic power couple, with achievements spanning film, music, sports, fashion and business. They also have teamed up to help people in need.

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Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez (Spanish-language)

Jennifer “J-Lo” Lopez and Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez are a classic power couple, with achievements spanning film, music, sports, fashion and business. They also have teamed up to help people in need.

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Hispanic Heritage - Marìa Teresa Kumar - English

As the founding president and CEO of Voto Latino, Marìa Teresa Kumar has helped to register and inspire millions of Latino voters through viral, celebrity-driven campaigns.

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Hispanic Heritage - Marìa Teresa Kumar - Spanish

As the founding president and CEO of Voto Latino, Marìa Teresa Kumar has helped to register and inspire millions of Latino voters through viral, celebrity-driven campaigns.

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Hispanic Heritage - Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American composer, writer, actor and singer best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights.

Before rising to international fame, Miranda worked as a substitute English teacher at his alma mater, Hunter College High School in New York City.

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Hispanic Heritage - Lin-Manuel Miranda Spanish

Lin-Manuel Miranda es un compositor, escritor, actor y cantante estadounidense, mejor conocido por crear y protagonizar los musicales de Broadway Hamilton e In the Heights.

Antes de alcanzar la fama internacional, Miranda trabajó como maestro sustituto de inglés en su alma mater, la Escuela Secundaria Hunter College en la ciudad de Nueva York.

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Hispanic Heritage - Sylvia Mendez

Sylvia Mendez is an American civil rights activist of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage who, at age 8, was the lead plaintiff in Mendez v. Westminster. Her parents filed the federal lawsuit after Mendez was denied enrollment in the local elementary school because of her Latino surname and dark skin. The 1947 case ended school segregation in California and paved the way for the American civil rights movement.

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Hispanic Heritage - Sylvia Mendez - Spanish

Sylvia Mendez es una activista estadounidense de derechos civiles de origen mexicanopuertorriqueño que, a los 8 años, era la principal demandante en el caso Mendez contra Westminster. Sus padres presentaron la demanda federal después de que a Mendez le fue negada la inscripción en la escuela primaria local debido a su apellido latino y piel oscura. El caso de 1947 puso fin a la segregación escolar en California y allanó el camino para el movimiento de derechos civiles estadounidense.

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Hispanic Heritage - Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor is the first Hispanic to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Nominated for the post in 2009 by President Barack Obama, Sotomayor is a former U.S. Court of Appeals judge and holds degrees from Princeton University and Yale Law School. Raised in the Bronx, Sotomayor is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents.

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Hispanic Heritage - Sonia Sotomayor (Spanish version)

Sonia Sotomayor es la primera hispana en servir en la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos. Nominada por el Presidente Barack Obama para el cargo en el 2009, Sotomayor es ex-jueza de la Corte de Apelaciones de los Estados Unidos y es acreditada por la Universidad de Princeton y la Facultad de Derecho de Yale. Criada en el Bronx, Sotomayor es hija de padres puertorriqueños.

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Hispanic Heritage - Juan Felipe Herrera (English version)

Juan Felipe Herrera, was first Latino to serve as United States Poet Laureate. The child of migrant farmworkers, Herrera is a leading voice about the Mexican American and indigenous experience, and the author of 28 books of poetry, young adult novels and children’s collections, including Crashboomlove a young adult novel in verse for which he won an Américas Award.

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Hispanic Heritage - Juan Felipe Herrera (Spanish version)

Juan Felipe Herrera es el primer Latino en recibir la distinción de poeta laureado de los Estados Unidos. Su designación se realizó en 2015. Como laureado, lanzó el proyecto “La Casa de Colores,” en el que invitó a los ciudadanos a formar parte de un poema épico. Hijo de migrantes campesinos, Herrera es el portavoz de la experiencia  mexicano-estadounidense e indígena. Es autor de 28 libros de poesía, novelas para jóvenes adultos y colecciones infantiles, incluida “Crashboomlove,” una novela en verso para jóvenes adultos por la que recibió el premio Américas.

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Hispanic Heritage - Librada Paz

Librada Paz is a Mexican-American farm worker rights activist who came to the U.S. at 15 to work as a migrant farm worker. She later completed a degree in mechanical engineering technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology and, in 1998, became a U.S. citizen. Paz is a council member for Rural and Migrant Ministries, a nonsectarian group working to improve the lives of migrant workers, a cause that NYSUT actively supports by lobbying for passage of the Farm Workers Fair Labor Practices Act in New York state. In 2012, she received a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

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Hispanic Heritage - Librada Paz (Spanish)

Librada Paz una activista méxico-americana de los derechos por los trabajadores agrícolas. Vino a Estados Unidos a los 15 años para trabajar como jornalera agrícola migrante. Ella luego completó su grado en tecnología de ingeniería mecánica en el Rochester Institute of Technology, y en 1998, se hizo ciudadana estadounidense. La Sra. Paz es miembro del consejo del Ministerio Rural y Migrante (RMM), un grupo no-sectario que trabaja para mejorar las vidas de los trabajadores migrantes, una causa que activamente NYSUT apoya en la presión para la aprobación de la Ley de Normas Justas de Trabajo para los trabajadores agrícolas del estado de Nueva York. En 2012, ella recibió el Premio de Derechos Humanos Robert F. Kennedy.

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Hispanic Heritage: José Limón

José Limón (1908-1972) was a Mexican-born modern dancer and choreographer hailed by The New York Times as the “finest male dancer of his time.” Limón studied and performed in New York City with modern dance pioneers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, premiering his first major choreographic work, Danzas Mexicanas , in 1937. He founded the José Limón Dance Company in 1946, choreographing over 74 works, including his signature piece, The Moor’s Pavane, based on Shakespeare’s Othello.

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Hispanic Heritage: José Limón (Spanish Version)

José Limón (1908-1972) was a Mexican-born modern dancer and choreographer hailed by The New York Times as the “finest male dancer of his time.” Limón studied and performed in New York City with modern dance pioneers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, premiering his first major choreographic work, Danzas Mexicanas , in 1937. He founded the José Limón Dance Company in 1946, choreographing over 74 works, including his signature piece, The Moor’s Pavane , based on Shakespeare’s Othello.

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Hispanic Heritage - Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential Americans of the 20th century. Chavez spent his youth picking crops across the West. He founded a union, the United Farm Workers and worked to help protect the civil rights of all people.

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Hispanic Heritage - Cesar Chavez - Spanish

César Chávez surgío de orígenes humildes para convertirse en uno de los estadounidenses más influyentes del siglo veinte. Chávez pasó su juventud recogiendo cosechas a lo largo del Oeste del país. Chávez trabajó para ayudar a proteger los derechos civiles de todas las personas.

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Hispanic Heritage - Carlos Noriega (English Version)

Former NASA astronaut Carlos Noriega traveled to the Russian space station Mir aboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis in 1997. He returned to space aboard the U.S. shuttle Endeavour in 2000 to help build the International Space Station. Prior to joining NASA, Noriega had a distinguished career as a Marine Corps pilot. Born in Peru in 1959, he retired from the U.S. Astronaut Corps in 2005 and continues to work at NASA.

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Hispanic Heritage - Carlos Noriega (Spanish Version)

Former NASA astronaut Carlos Noriega traveled to the Russian space station Mir aboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis in 1997. He returned to space aboard the U.S. shuttle Endeavour in 2000 to help build the International Space Station. Prior to joining NASA, Noriega had a distinguished career as a Marine Corps pilot. Born in Peru in 1959, he retired from the U.S. Astronaut Corps in 2005 and continues to work at NASA.

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Hispanic Heritage - Dolores Huerta (English Version)

Dolores Huerta is a labor and civil rights activist who founded the National Farmworkers Association in 1962 in partnership with fellow activist Cesar Chavez. The organization was later called the United Farm Workers of America (UFW).

Huerta directed the 1965 UFW Delano, Calif., grape strike, a national boycott that resulted in a three-year collective bargaining agreement in 1970 between the California table grape industry and the UFW.

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Hispanic Heritage - Dolores Huerta (Spanish Version)

Dolores Huerta es una activista de los derechos civiles y laborales que fundó la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas en 1962 en sociedad con su colega activista César Chávez. Luego, esta organización fue llamada el Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas de América (UFW, por sus siglas en inglés).

Huerta dirigió en 1965 la huelga de la uva de la UWF en Delano, California, un boicot nacional que resultó en un contrato colectivo de tres años entre la industria de la uva de California y la UWF en 1970.

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Hispanic Heritage - Jaime Escalante (English Version)

Jaime Escalante (1930-2010) was a Bolivian-born American educator who inspired the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver," which detailed his success helping inner city students master calculus at Garfield High School in Los Angeles. Escalante rejected the notion that inner city students couldn't learn advanced mathematics, and always had the highest expectations for his students.

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Hispanic Heritage - Jaime Escalante (Spanish Version)

Jaime Escalante (1930-2010) was a Bolivian-born American educator who inspired the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver," which detailed his success helping inner city students master calculus at Garfield High School in Los Angeles. Escalante rejected the notion that inner city students couldn't learn advanced mathematics, and always had the highest expectations for his students.

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Hispanic Heritage - Hilda Solis

Hilda L. Solis is the 25th United States Secretary of Labor, serving in the Obama administration, and is the first Hispanic woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, representing California’s 31st and 32nd congressional districts. Raised in California by immigrant parents from Nicaragua and Mexico, Solis has strong union roots.

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Hispanic Heritage - Hilda Solis - Spanish Version

Hilda L. Solis Es la 25 º actual Secretaria de Trabajo de los Estados Unidos, sirviendo para la administración de Obama, y es la primera mujer Hispana que ha servido en el Consejo de Ministros de los Estados Unidos. Ella es miembro del Partido Demócrata y sirvió en la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos desde el 2001 hasta el 2009, representando los distritos congresionales 31 y 32 de California. Criada en California por dos padres inmigrantes de Nicaragua y México, Solis desarrolló profundas raíces con los sindicatos.

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Hispanic Heritage - Dr. Ellen Ochoa - English

First female Hispanic astronaut. Veteran of four space missions. “The opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.”

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Hispanic Heritage - Dr. Ellen Ochoa - Spanish

Primera mujer hispana astronauta. Veterana de cuatro misiones espaciales. “Las oportunidades que yo he tenido han sido el resultado de haber tenido una buena base educativa. La educación es lo que le permite destacar.”

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Black History - Tulsa's Black Wall Street

NYSUT celebrates Black History Month with a new poster highlighting the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street at the start of the 20th century.

Black History - Serena Williams

Serena Williams is widely considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. She and her sister are credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women’s professional tennis tour and with increasing diversity within the sport. Williams is also a successful businesswoman, with more than a dozen corporate partners and investments in over 60 startups through her firm Serena Ventures.

Black History - Frederick Douglass

This new poster celebrates Frederick Douglass who, after escaping from slavery in Maryland, became a national leader in the abolitionist movement.

Black History - Celebrating HBCUs

NYSUT celebrates Black History Month with a new poster highlighting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which were established to primarily serve Black students. Cheyney University, established in 1837, is the oldest historically Black school of higher education. HBCUs contributed substantially to the economic progress of Black Americans by providing them with access to higher education in an era of legal segregation.

Black History - Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017. She was the body’s minority leader from 2011 until the end of her term. In 2020, Abrams’ work was crucial in increasing the number of registered voters and getting a record number of voters to the Georgia polls.

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Black History - Letitia "Tish" James

Letitia “Tish” James is the 67th Attorney General of New York State. She became the first African-American, and the first woman, elected to the position in 2018 and the first African-American woman elected to statewide office in New York.

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Black History - Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) was an American civil, voting and women’s rights activist who co-founded and vice-chaired the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which challenged the all-white Mississippi delegation’s efforts to block African-American participation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. 

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Black History Ralph Bunche

Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904–1971) was an American political scientist, academic and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for mediating a cease-fire between Israeli and Arab forces in the Palestinian region in the late 1940s. He was the first African–American to receive the prize.

Black History- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is president of the North Carolina NAACP and organizer of the  2013 Forward Together Moral Monday Movement, which uses non-violent civil disobedience to  oppose regressive policies in North Carolina.

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Black History: Maya Angelou

NYSUT celebrates Black History Month in February with a poster highlighting the life and career of Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014), an author, poet, dancer, actress and singer.

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Black History: Charleston Tragedy

NYSUT honors Black History Month with a free poster commemorating the nine parishioners who lost their lives in the June 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. Intended to incite a race war, the tragedy instead inspired a national discussion about race, leading to the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina Capitol, and the removal of other symbols of the Confederacy in many Southern cities and states.

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Black History - A. Phillip Randolph

A. Philip Randolph was a labor leader and social activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925. The organization was the ! rst African-American-led labor union to sign a collective bargaining agreement with a major U.S. corporation and to be chartered by the American Federation of Labor. Active in the civil rights movement, Randolph organized both the 1941 March on Washington and the 1963 March on Washington, the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In 1964, Randolph received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Black History - Rosa Parks

In 1955, Rosa Parks courageously refused to move to the back of a bus — a decision that helped spark the American civil rights movement. She was a tireless advocate for equal opportunity for all people.

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Black History - Charlotte Forten Grimke

Charlotte Forten Grimké was the first northern African-American schoolteacher to travel south to teach former slaves. She later published “Life on the Sea Islands,” chronicling her experiences.

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Black History - Ralph D. Abernathy

Ralph D. Abernathy (1926-1990) was a pastor and civil rights leader who helped launch the American Civil Rights Movement and was a key figure during its most turbulent years, 1955-1968. Working closely with his associate, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abernathy organized the 13-month-long Montgomery bus boycott, which desegregated the Alabama city’s buses in 1956.

Abernathy also co-founded, with King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. It became an important southern civil rights organization, playing a major role in the 1963 March on Washington. Abernathy’s autobiography, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, was published in 1989.

Black History - Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson was a celebrated 20th century contralto singer, and an important figure in the struggle for equality for African-American artists. After the Daughters of the American Revolution refused Anderson permission to sing before an integrated audience in Constitution Hall, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, arranged for her to perform a critically acclaimed, open-air Easter Sunday concert on April 9, 1939. The event took place on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of thousands, and a radio audience of millions.

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Black History - President Barack Obama

Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States in November 2008, becoming the first African-American to win the post. Born in Hawaii and a former community organizer in Chicago, Obama was a United States senator from Illinois prior to assuming the presidency.

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Black History - Ruby Bridges

In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first African-American child to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. The NAACP was instrumental in winning the 1954 lawsuit, Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated public schools in the United States.

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LGBTQ - Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 12 Grand Slams in singles, 16 Grand Slams in women’s doubles, 11 Grand Slams in mixed doubles and was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. King is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1990 and in 2006 the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

A long-time advocate of gender equality and social justice, King founded the Women’s Tennis Association and the Women’s Sports Foundation. King received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 in recognition of her work advocating for the rights of women and of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities; in 2013, she was among the fi rst class of inductees into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. King married Ilana Kloss, her former doubles partner, in 2018.

LGBTQ - Wanda Sykes

Wanda Sykes is an American stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She was first recognized for her work as a writer on “The Chris Rock Show,” for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1999. Entertainment Weekly named Sykes one of the 25 funniest people in America in 2004. Also known for her roles on CBS’ “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and ABC’s “Blackish,” Sykes currently stars in the Netflix original series “The Upshaws.” Sykes has also appeared in, and voiced animated characters for, several films.

Married to her wife since 2008, Sykes is actively involved in same-sex marriage advocacy, often hosting events and emceeing fundraisers. In 2010, she received the GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award, given by the Gay & Lesbian lliance Against Defamation to an openly LGBT member of the entertainment or media community for their work to eliminate homophobia.

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LGBTQ - Lil Nas X

Montero Lamar Hill, “Lil Nas X,” is an American rapper and singer. His country rap single “Old Town Road” achieved viral popularity in early 2019, spending 19 weeks atop the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and becoming the longest-running number-one song since the chart debuted in 1958. Several remixes of the song were released, the most popular featuring country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. Lil Nas X came out as gay while “Old Town Road” topped the Hot 100 chart, making him the first artist to do so while having a number-one record.

Lil Nas X was the most-nominated male artist at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards where he ultimately won awards for Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. He is the first openly LGBTQ Black artist to win a County Music Association award. In 2019, Time magazine named Lil Nas X one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet. In 2020, Lil Nas X appeared on the “Forbes 30 Under 30” list.

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LGBTQ - Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) was a leading activist in the American Civil Rights movement, initiating a 1947 Freedom Ride to challenge bus segregation, and organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. An openly gay man, Rustin began advocating for gay and lesbian causes later in life, working to bring the AIDS crisis to the attention of the NAACP, and famously stating in the mid-1980s, “Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people ... the barometer ... is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.”

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LGBTQ - Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox is an American actress, reality television star, television producer and LGBTQ advocate best known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on the Netflix series “Orange is the New Black.” Cox is the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy award for acting.

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Womens History - Carolyn Maloney

NYSUT's Women's History Month poster for 2024 celebrates Carolyn B. Maloney, who served as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th and later 12th Congressional Districts from 1993 to 2023.

Womens History - Jina “Mahsa" Amini

On Sept. 13, 2022, 22-year-old Jina “Mahsa” Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police at a Tehran metro station for improperly wearing a hijab in accordance with government standards. Amini died three days later in police custody of an apparent heart attack. But eyewitnesses, including several women detained with Amini, report that she was severely beaten and died as a result of her injuries. Since her death, outraged Iranians have led protests across dozens of cities in the most sustained uprising in the 43-year history of the Islamic Republic. Protests have spread internationally.

Women's History - Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai, often referred to simply as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education — particularly in her native land, which has sometimes banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai was shot in 2012 by a Taliban gunman on her way home from school, after speaking publicly about girls’ right to learn.

Womens History - Vice President Kamala Harris

NYSUT celebrates Women’s History Month — March — with a free poster celebrating Kamala Harris, the 49th vice president of the United States. She is the first female, first Black American and first South Asian American to hold the position. President Joe Biden selected Harris as his running mate after she suspended her campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination; the Biden– Harris ticket went on to win the 2020 election.

Prior to becoming vice president, Harris was elected the junior Senator from California in 2017, making her the nation’s second Black, female senator. She was California’s first Black, female Attorney General from 2011 until her Senate election. Vice President Harris supports equal pay for women, federally mandated paid family and sick leave, healthcare reform and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. She is a graduate of Howard University, a historically Black institution, and the University of California, Hastings College of Law.

Womens History - 100th Ann Suffrage Poster

The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, constitutionally guaranteeing a woman’s right to vote. The Suffrage Movement officially began in 1848 with a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.

For the next 72 years, suffragists marched, protested, circulated petitions and lobbied Congress for the right to vote under the leadership of women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and 20th century activists like Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida B. Wells and Alice Paul.

Womens History: Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) was an American educator and champion of gender and racial equality.

In 1904, Bethune founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls, which later became Bethune-Cookman College. She became the first African American woman to head a federal agency when President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration in 1936. In 1945, she was the only woman of color at the United Nations’ founding conference.

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Women's History: Mary Heaton Vorse

Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966) was an American journalist, labor activist, social critic and novelist. She was active in a number of social justice causes, including women’s suffrage, civil rights and opposition to World War I. In 1962, Vorse became the first recipient of the United Auto Workers Social Justice Award for her work as a labor journalist in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Women's History: Kate Mullany

Kate Mullany (1845–1906) was an Irish immigrant who organized the nation’s first sustained female labor union, the Collar Laundry Union in Troy, N.Y., in 1864. (DOWNLOAD ONLY.)

Women's History Sandra Feldman

Sandra Feldman (1939-2005) was a civil, human and women’s rights activist, a labor leader and an American educator. Feldman was a leading voice in the national and international labor movement, and a tireless advocate on behalf of women, civil rights, trade unionism and public education. In 2015, she was posthumously inducted into Labor’s International Hall of Fame.

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Women's History - Shirley Chisolm

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) was an educator, author and American politician who proudly represented New York’s 12th Congressional District from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, Chisholm became the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. An outspoken and steely New Yorker, Chisholm once said she didn’t want to be remembered as “the first black woman congressman,” but more importantly, “I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts.”

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Women's History: Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Union spy during the American Civil War. In the post-Civil War era, Tubman also participated in
the women’s suffrage movement.

Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849. Four years later, she led a series of rescue missions to free enslaved family and friends using the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses and antislavery activists. Tubman also helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry in Virginia.

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Women's History - Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was the 67th U.S. Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013. Prior to that, Hillary Clinton represented New York state in the U.S. Senate, from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of President Bill Clinton, she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001, later becoming the first First Lady elected to the U.S. Senate. (Please note: Designed and printed before 2016 elections.)

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Womens' History - Gloria Steinem

Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as the leader of the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. A writer, editor and political figure, Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972 and helped create the Coalition of Labor Union Women in 1974.  She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1993.

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Women's History - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist and leading figure in the early women’s rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women’s rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women’s rights and women’s suffrage movements in the United States.

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