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The Next Generation

UFT's newest chapter leaders learn the ropes at training weekend

  • What, no classes outside? Enjoying a lighter moment and discussing the day’s events are Queens chapter leaders (from left) Kathleen Burke from PS 877, Emilio Burgos from PS 303 and Jimmy Kalamaras from PS 300.
  • At the special education display table was UFT Vice President Carmen Alvarez (seated, right), seen here with UFT staffer Emelina Camacho-Mendez. Together they helped (standing, from left) Robert Romano of PS 22 in the Bronx, Adrianna O’Hagan of JHS 518 in Brooklyn and Lorraine Porter of PS 6 in Brooklyn.
  • Taking advantage of a break in the weather, new Brooklyn chapter leaders get down to business about educating students in the fourth-largest city in the world. They are (from left) Martin Marczika from MS 88, Michelle Grecco from PS 215, Joann Savage from PS 215 and Ronald Robertson from MS 393.
  • UFT President Michael Mulgrew addresses the opening of the training, reminding members not to take criticism personally and also how important it is that they not try to do the job alone. He said the chapter leaders’ message to the DOE is: “You will not hurt children as long as UFT people are in the building.” He reminded the members that “our profession is under attack.” Mulgrew told the chapter leaders that “the core of your soul is to help children. You wear that badge with great honor and don’t ever let anyone disrespect us.”
  • UFT District 11 Representative Alice Cooper-Jackson (left) can’t believe that Nicolina Zimmerman of MS 127 is old enough to be the mother of Daniele Zimmerman of Bronxwood Prep Academy. Both Zimmermans are chapter leaders at their Bronx schools. Daniele said she learned how to hone her skills at the training weekend and liked the emphasis on how a chapter is a community effort. Nicolina, a teacher for 33 years, said that “the amount of information is incredible. I thought I knew a lot.”
  • Virginia Agosto from PS 146 in the Bronx joins colleague Sonya Gimondo from PS 234 in Queens in signing up on the UFT Web site. Doing so allows chapter leaders to file grievances online and receive UFT chapter leader alerts and the weekly online Chapter Leader Update.
  • Guidance counselor Steve Jarrett from Bronx Haven HS gets to know Victoria M. Rush from Horizon Academy. Jarrett said he was thrilled that the training did not turn out to be his worst fear: that it would be “a boring, long, drawn-out event.”
  • Brooklyn chapter leaders
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  • Manhattan chapter leaders
  • Queens chapter leaders
  • Staten Island chapter leaders

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