For additional information, email Christine Anderson at christineking@optonline.net.

If you are planning to retire after completing this school year, your letter of intent needs to be sent to the Assistant Superintendent for Personnel by Tuesday, February 15th. Please email and hand deliver a copy of your letter to the administration building before or on February 15th. Your letter should clearly state that it is your intention to resign effective June 30, 2022 for the purpose of retirement.

It is important for you to make an appointment with NYSTRS (New York State Retirement System) if you haven't done so already. Visit www.nystrs.org

Bada Bing - Almond raspberry dough with semi-sweet chips and tri-color sprinkles. Stuffed with an Italian rainbow cookie. Topped with raspberry preserves and chocolate sprinkles.

Strawberry Pop Tart - Sugar dough stuffed with strawberry jam, topped with vanilla frosting and sprinkles.

Valentine’s Sprinkle Chip - Vanilla dough with semi-sweet chips, white chocolate chips, and rainbow nonpareil sprinkles. Dipped in rainbow nonpareils.

Chocolate Covered Cherry - Chocolate cherry cookie dough with milk chips and maraschino cherries mixed in. Stuffed with a cordial cherry and drizzled with pink chocolate.

The Joe Cookie - Our classic chocolate chip. A simple recipe perfected by years of family experience. This is not your average Joe.

Alison Silvestri @ ajsilvest@hotmail.com with any questions.

Since this is a negotiations year, we want to present a unified front by wearing HCT-branded clothing every Wednesday. In addition, we'll be sharing photos on social media of our members proudly wearing their HCT gear.

Use the hashtag #WeAreHCT on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. If you do not use social media and/or would like me to post your photos, feel free to email them to jketyer@gmail.com and I will share them. Remember to Wear it on Wednesdays!

If you missed our fall clothing sale, there is a limited supply of HCT apparel available for sale at the HCT office. View items here.

RSVP to Melissa Seguna (mseguna88@gmail.com) by February 1st.

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Share Your Real Stories to Support #FutureForward Initiative

NYSUT needs your help to spread the word about our #FutureForward initiative. There’s no better way to highlight the needs of our schools than to share real stories from real educators, students and parents.

This informative AFL-CIO podcast on the #FutureForward initiative features three teachers/task force members: Jen Wolfe, Oceanside FT; Adrienne Cohan, Starpoint TA, and Amy Hysick, North Syracuse EA .

Join Share My Lesson and Catherine Zack, a meditation teacher and executive mindfulness coach, for more stress solutions for educators.This experiential workshop series is designed to give you both a better understanding of the science of stress and its impact on your body and real tools that you can use right now to manage stress, avoid feeling overwhelmed and create resiliency-building daily habits. You’ll leave this series with the foundations of a daily meditation practice and learn the building-block basics of mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Register here.

K-12 educators and SRPs can learn how to reverse the impact of trauma on students’ abilities to trust and behave in school through @NYSUT ELT Professional Learning. Here are more topics for Getting Back On Track.

ELT offers a variety of wellness seminars to help members cope with these difficult times. For example:

Learn about more topics available to NYSUT members here.

A new round of our popular student loan debt webinars has been added to the schedule for December and January. More information and registration for these Zoom webinars can be found here.

The new issue of Educator’s Voice, NYSUT’s professional journal, on Leveraging Student Strengths through Project-Based Learning and Authentic Assessment, is now online. The journal also seeks proposals for its next edition, on the topic of Sustaining Democracy through Civics Education. The proposal submission deadline is February 1st.

If you haven't signed up  for four free at-home COVID-19 tests from the government, you can at www.covidtests.gov.

Members who need to be tested, do not have to use the district testing site. Members can go to their own doctors, pharmacies, or other testing sites and bring in proof of a negative test.

If an HCT member does not comply, the member will be declared ineligible to report to work and will be suspended without pay. The NYSUT Nassau Regional Office has informed us that the district is within its legal rights to do this.

Frequently Asked Questions about Covid-19 Testing and Vaccine Mandates for P-12 Employees can be found here.

After several weeks of behind the scenes work by NYSUT, the New York State Department of Labor has updated the guidance for Labor Law Sec 196-C, which allows paid leave time for COVID vaccinations, to include vaccine booster shots.

School-related COVID questions should be directed to Gail Hunker.

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If you are interested in being listed in our tutor database or would like to remain in the database, please download and complete the Tutor Referral Form and mail it to the HCT at 535 South Broadway, Suite 212, Hicksville, NY 11801. If you prefer, you can scan the completed form and email it to Hicksville_Teachers@verizon.net.