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November 8th, 2018 The RCTA Billiards Bonanza will bring over 40 billiards teams together from across Region 14/15/16. Come join your brothers and sisters as we celebrate our SOLIDARITY and billiards skills (or lack thereof). Date: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 Time: 4:00pm-7:00pm Where: Diamond Jim’s Billiards in Nanuet Teams of 3-5: $150 Billiards, Billiards Food, Soft Drinks, Cash Bar Put together a team and come out to Billiards, EAT, and SOCIALIZE! The RCTA Billiards Bonanza will surely be the social event of the year. DON’T MISS IT! $20 suggested donation at-the-door to support United Hospice of Rockland County ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO United Hospice of Rockland County
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The AFL-CIO will be collecting pajamas for teenagers this year as Christmas gifts for underprivileged children. If you can donate a pair, (give them to your building rep, and I will collect them) it would be appreciated and I will deliver them to the meeting on November 14h. Thank you in advance for your generosity! Ann Robertson Political Action   The NYSUT Tarrytown Regional Office has always supported the concept of continuing education for the members of our region. We are constantly looking for opportunities to provide you with training initiatives relevant to your profession. With that in mind, we created the Tarrytown Learning Center (TLC).
The TLC is set up to conveniently provide you with seminars that will enhance your work experience and give you the tools necessary to become the best that you can be within your profession. The seminars will be set up in conjunction with the NYSUT Education and Learning Trust (ELT). With more than 30 years’ experience, the ELT is the go-to choice for high-quality professional learning with experienced, classroom-tested instructors. The ELT offers the latest and most relevant research-based strategies and resources, taught by your colleagues — fellow teachers and school-related professionals. These are educators who have walked the walk, mentoring, facilitating and implementing the research-based methods and practices they teach. In addition, the TLC is working closely with the Lower Hudson Valley Network of Teacher Centers. Through the TLC, we have scheduled more than 80 seminars, beginning in October and continuing through April. The seminars will take place at the NYSUT Tarrytown Regional Office, the Pirates Cove in the Pearl River School District in Rockland County and the Newburgh Free Academy in Orange County. As in the past, you will be able to use My Learning Plan. This will allow you to use the hours towards the required hours for professional development to track the seminars you attend. These seminars are open to NYSUT members only and there is no charge to participate. TLC Catalog 2018-2019 NYSUT Members:
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Do you want to earn some extra money this summer while helping fend off attacks on our union and on our professions? If so, you can join the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute and make the most of your summer! Our union needs you! Take action now to find out more about the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute ... and help keep our union strong! At a time when our union is facing unprecedented attacks against its very existence, the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute gives you the opportunity to help fight back, to keep our union strong ... and to make some money while doing so! MOI organizers will receive a stipend, as well as mileage reimbursement, for a 12-week commitment this summer. A mandatory 2.5-day training will be offered in Albany on June 29 – July 1 for interested member organizers. Our union needs you! Take action now to find out more about the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute ... and help keep our union strong! Join the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute this summer, and make some extra money while helping to keep our union strong! In solidarity, Andrew Pallotta NYSUT President P.S.: Help keep our union strong this summer! Join the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute! Our union needs YOU! Do you want to earn some extra money this summer while helping fend off attacks on our union and on our professions? If so, you can join the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute and make the most of your summer! Our union needs you! Take action now to find out more about the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute ... and help keep our union strong! At a time when our union is facing unprecedented attacks against its very existence, the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute gives you the opportunity to help fight back, to keep our union strong ... and to make some money while doing so! MOI organizers will receive a stipend, as well as mileage reimbursement, for a 12-week commitment this summer. A mandatory 2.5-day training will be offered in Albany on June 29 – July 1 for interested member organizers. Our union needs you! Take action now to find out more about the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute ... and help keep our union strong! Join the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute this summer, and make some extra money while helping to keep our union strong! In solidarity, Andrew Pallotta NYSUT President P.S.: Help keep our union strong this summer! Join the NYSUT Member Organizing Institute!  Open Letter to the Parents and Educators on inconsistency between 3‐8 proficiency
rates and Regents proficiency rates and graduation rates New York State’s students and educators have made great strides in recent years in the classroom. Statewide four year graduation rates are up from 75% in 2013 to 80% in 2017. Since 2007 the overall graduation rate is up from 68.6%. Also, for black students the four year graduation rate rose from 60% to 69% and for Hispanic students the graduation rate rose from 59% to 68% over the past four years. These increased graduation rates are a testament to the dedication of our educators, students, the families of public school children who are all working together to improve educational outcomes for our students. The increase in the graduation rates since 2013 mean that over 10,000 more students every year are graduating high school on time compared to four years ago. The vast majority of students are passing the high school Regents exams required for graduation and the percent of students graduating with advanced Regents Diplomas is on the rise. This is all great news and shows how hard our educators and students have been working. There is of course more work to do on student performance. Also, there remains a clear connection to the wealth of a community and the academic performance of students. Low need school districts have a 95% four year graduation rate and average need districts have an 88% graduation rate. However, the graduation rate drops to 70% for high need urban/suburban school districts. Sadly this speaks to the unequal access to high quality education programs in many low wealth, high need school districts for far too many children and the need for additional funding for these districts. Nonetheless, the challenges that lie ahead do not diminish the successes that have been achieved in our public schools. Student performance on the state grade 3 – 8 tests is contrary to the vast academic successes at the high school level. 60% of grades 3‐8 students are identified as not proficient on the state 3‐8 ELA and Math exams. Statewide proficiency rates that hover around 40% are wholly inconsistent with the excellent performance levels on Regents exams and with rising graduation rates. It would be reasonable to assume that if students were not proficient on their 3‐8 state exams that they would not be prepared to successfully pass Regents exams. However, this is not the case; for example, in 2016 24% of the 8th grade students that took the 8th Grade Math assessment were identified as proficient, but one year later when most of these students took the Algebra I Regents exam 74% passed. Similarly in 2013, only 31% of 7th graders were proficient on the state ELA exam and four years later in 11th grade, when most of those 7th graders took the ELA common Core Regents exam, the Regents passage rate was 84%. We all know that the long standing Regents exams are high quality whereas the grades 3‐8 exams have been the source of much controversy in recent years. Parents and teachers should be asking why the proficiency rates on the 3‐8 assessments are so low. What is wrong with these assessments? They are clearly not measuring student performance and proficiency levels in an accurate manner. SED has shortened the length of the grade 3‐8 exams from three to two days. This modification was supported by NYSUT and this will improve the test experience for children. However, shortening the length of these tests does not address the issue of how SED determines proficiency levels on grade 3‐8 exams. SED must address the process by which they determine proficiency levels on grade 3‐8 ELA and math exams to properly align the outcomes with Regent exams and graduation rates. Parents, teachers, and all those who care about our public education school children must join together to demand that SED fix this problem. |
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