Kathy Carioti (left) and Tina O’Connor from Telecommunication Arts Tech HS in Brooklyn review the agenda and seminar materials at the School Secretaries Seminar on Jan. 27.

School secretaries heard presentations from city and UFT representatives on the city’s online occurrence reporting systems, family leave, pensions and other issues.

Betsy LoDestro of PS 21 in Queens joins the discussion.

Mona Gonzalez (second from left), the School Secretaries Chapter leader, with some of the 70 secretaries who came from around the city.

Angela Smirniotis of PS 152 in Queens offers a comment.

A group of school secretaries from Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island attended the seminar for the first time.

Husain Thompson, a senior systems analyst with the Department of Education who presented on the city’s online occurrence reporting system, gives information to Beverly Johnson of PS 28 in Brooklyn.

Keeping the conversation going are (from left) School Secretaries Chapter Corresponding Secretary Rosie Cortijo, Betsy Perez of Queens HS of Teaching, Liberal Arts and the Sciences, and Gloria Bobyn-Case of Mott Hall HS in Harlem.