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‘Silent Witness’ makes daily message for peace

NYSUT Communications
Monday, 19 May 2014
Between working full time at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and studying for his second doctorate, Mark Hoglund finds the time to spend his valuable lunch hour most days holding up a sign for peace. It...

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Backpacks packed with food and compassion

NYSUT Communications
Monday, 14 April 2014
Spring is in full swing at Windsor High School in Broome County: The high school spring musical is “Annie” this year. The teachers are taking on the Binghamton police officers in a hockey game...

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Teacher creates art to promote social justice

NYSUT Communications
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
When you think about diversity in art, you might think about mixed media, such as a canvas of both paint and collage, painted photographs, or a marriage of paint and graphite. For Bethlehem art teacher...

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Loss of pet becomes a chance to help

NYSUT Communications
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
By Mary Masterson Each year, thousands of animals — some the victims of intentional cruelty, others the victims of accidental suffering — end up in shelters in desperate need of healing and care. Volunteers like...

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HOPe-Helping Other People

NYSUT Communications
Monday, 10 March 2014
The names string together like beads: Limpopo, Lima, La Carpio, Ethiopia, San Pedro Sula, Haiti and Honduras.  In each location, people struggling with deep poverty have been helped by a charity here in New...

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‘Tailgating’ for the hungry

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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Teaching more than music through music

NYSUT Communications
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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Hicksville teacher lives his dream at Thanksgiving Parade

NYSUT Communications
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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Sherry Roy

NYSUT Communications
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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Amy Parr

NYSUT Communications
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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