Please click on the following link to view the UCC Membership Luncheon photos:

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For our members who are currently paying half percent to the Retiree Health Care Trust Fund, as part of the 2011 SEBAC agreement members will see a one and half percent increase in their payments to the fund starting the first day of the pay period following July 1, 2014.  Click MORE for details.

AVAILABLE AFT RESOURCES

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Teachers Tips:

• Before the Year Begins
• Creating a Classroom Team

Classroom Tips:

• Assigning Effective Homework
• Quality Classroom Assessment Techniques
• Appropriate Uses of Modern Technology
• Building Parent-Teacher Partnerships
• Behavior Management Techniques for Safe Schools
• Working with Cooperative Small Groups

FOR PSRPs

• AFT PSRP: Managing Student Behavior on the Bus

• Pointers for PSRPs Health and Safety

SHARE MY LESSON

• Share My Lesson:  By Teachers, For Teachers
• Supporting New Teachers w/ Share My Lesson
• Early Childhood Educators and Share My Lesson
• Paraprofessionals and School Support Personnel
• The Common Core State Standards and Share My Lesson
• How Parents can use SHARE MY LESSON

Other Brochures

Stop Bullying Guide

AFT:  Work SHOULDN'T Hurt

The new year is here and we are looking forward to a productive year.  Here are links to important resources:

RFT and RTC Contract for 2018 to 2021

Information about Part-time Faculty Unemployment Benefits

MOU regarding COLA        . . . 

Hundreds of books donated by OTA members this year were given away to the general public at the annual Woodstock Elementary School PTA yard sale. Each book was stamped with the greeting:  "A gift for you from the Onteora Teachers Association."  Shoppers were also given homemade, leather bookmarks and magnets, both imprinted with OTA.  Great PR!

To sign the petition:                                                                                           http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-gables-residential?source=c.url&r_by=9926583

Workers Defense Projects's campaign to win better conditions and fair compensation for workers on Gables construction sites is going STATEWIDE Saturday, June 14th!

CMS is in the process of sending letters to members regarding any Health Enhancement Program (HEP) compliance issues. Click MORE for details.

On May 15th the students in Ingrid White's and Jane Wolfrom's classes released the trout they raised from eggs into the Stony Clove Creek.  We were able to take a field trip in the fall to the New York State Hatchery in Livingston Manor and pick up 200 eyed brown trout eggs for each class.  Over the course of the year students were responsible for caring for them, checking water temperature, and learning about the creatures they eventually released into the wild.

The competition took place on May 28^th in the middle/high school library.  The three competing teams were cheered on by classmates, parents, and several middle school staff as they answered a slew of jeopardy-style questions about ten different books from this year’s list.  The line-up included award winners such as The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman; The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by Joyn Boyne; Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan; and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”