Issue: 2021-2022-20 * Justina Ketyer, Editor * June 2, 2022
In this issue

  • HCT General Membership Meeting
  • 2022-2023 HCT Budget Vote
  • HCT End of Year Luncheon
  • Wear Orange Tomorrow to Support the End to Gun Violence
  • Cause a Scene for a Good Cause - Blaze Pizza HCT Scholarship Fundraiser
  • An Afternoon at Northfork Brewing Co with the HCT
  • Calling All Baseball Fans!
  • New York Yankees Season Discount
  • Mets vs Pirates
  • NYSUT Special Programs & Seminars
  • Share My Lesson Wellness Series
  • Reverse the Impact of Trauma
  • ELS Wellness Programs
  • School Related Covid Questions
  • Are You Interested in Tutoring?
  • With Deepest Sympathy
  • Congratulations!
  • Welcome Baby!
  • Engagement Congrats!
  • Celebrating June Birthdays
  • LIU Post Credits Available
  • News Around the Schools
  • Retiree News
HCT General Membership Meeting
June 7th
4 PM
Kristoff Theatre
Hicksville High School

TOPIC: THE 2022-2023 HCT Budget

PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, this meeting will be held one time at 4 PM. The original 3 PM meeting has been cancelled.
HCT 2022-2023 Budget Vote
Tuesday, June 14th
Wear Orange tomorrow, June 3rd, to support the effort to end gun violence in the US.

Learn more about Wear Orange.
An Afternoon at Northfork Brewing Co with the HCT

Join fellow HCT members at the Northfork Brewing Co on Sunday June 12th. We made the reservation, you come an enjoy the afternoon. The HCT has guaranteed seating for members, their friends and family between 1 PM and 3 PM.

Don’t like beer? NO PROBLEM! Northfork Brewing Co also makes their own Ginger Ale and they are a few store fronts away from Montauk Distilling Co, our very own distillery on Long Island. Both locations allow you to bring drinks back and forth between the 2 sites!

Want a snack? NO PROBLEM! If no food truck is booked for the day, Northfork Brewing Co serves local fresh made empanadas. Trucks are booked on a regular basis, so follow them on social media for updates.
Calling All Baseball Fans!
Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates
 
Citi Field
Saturday, September 17
7 PM
$48
Includes best available seat in sections 140-142 (Big Apple Reserved), a black David Wright Jersey and the first 25,000 fans to the stadium receive a Gary Cohen Bobblehead.
Payment due Wednesday, June 8

Return order form with payment to Alison Silvestri at the High School

Questions? Email Alison at ajsilvest@hotmail.com
New York Yankees Season Discount

Yowza, Yowza, Yowza!!! Calling all Yankee Fans!!!
The HCT now has its own discount ticket code for all remaining home games in the 2022 Season!!!

Friends and family can access the link too, so feel free to share it!

Use the Promo Code: HCTTIX

For groups of 10+ tickets, 16 to 60 person suites, or season ticket packages
please reach out to Joe Grande at JGrande@Yankees.com
Share My Lesson Wellness Series

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.
Reverse the Impact of Trauma

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 Wellness Seminars

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

The Juggle: Trying to keep all the balls in the air at the same time is challenging. This 1.5-hour seminar helps you cope with the juggle while still managing all your personal and professional demands.

Learn about more topics available to NYSUT members here.
School Related Covid Questions

School-related COVID questions should be directed to Gail Hunker.
Her numbers are: 516-733-2149 and 516-315-0494.
Are you interested in tutoring?
The HCT is updating its tutor referral database. When we receive a call for a tutor, an email will be sent to members on the list who meet the criteria for the request. It is up to the individual teacher to make arrangements as to times, fees and location. We cycle through the teachers on the list to ensure that everyone will have an opportunity to earn extra money. Replies must be made within 48 hours so that we can respond to parents in a timely manner. Once we hear back from you, we will forward the parent's phone number and student information.

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.
  • Condolences to Meg McElroy (Middle School) on the death of her Uncle Jerry.

  • Condolences to Corey Cohn (High School) on the death of his grandfather. 
Congratulations to Phil Moshoyannis (Lee Avenue) for being accepted into the 2022 Global Studies Outreach Workshop at Harvard University entitled The Future of Democracy.
  • Congratulations to Kim Crean (Middle School) on the birth of her son Edward Joseph (EJ) on May 24th.
  • Congratulations to Josh Morrow (Middle School) on the birth of his daughter, Sophie Lily, on May 26th.
Congratulations to Jason Aliperti (East Street) on his engagement to Michela Clovis.
Joe Hartig (High School Social Studies) is selling 1.5 credits for LIU Post. For more information, contact Joe at joehartig@gmail.com
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Congratulations to Roberta (Bobbi) Soroka on becoming a great grandma to Grayson Matthew Samuels and Celeste Whitney Baker. Bobbi taught Special Education at Hicksville High School and retired in 2001.

Bill Lemmey, Hicksville Federation of Retired Educators, writes: Retirement Council 19 and NYSUT encourages retirees to write to their state legislators to support an important retirement bill protecting health insurance. A recent court decision weakens the rights of retirees to protect their benefits from collective bargaining issues. Please write to your legislator to support Assembly Bill A10425 and Senate Bill S924 backed by Assemblyman Abbate and Senator Jackson.
HCT office hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9 AM to 5 PM when school is in session.
535 South Broadway, Suite 212
Hicksville, NY 11801
Phone: 516-937-1288
Fax: 516-937-1925