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Patricia Gil, Lessons in Leadership from a Soldier, Teacher, and Lifelong Learner

Former Assistant Principal Patricia Gil has been inspired all her life by Mark Twain’s saying, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” She has lived by those words from the moment she joined the U.S. Army Reserve as a college freshman to her current role as an assistant field director and member of the Veterans Council at the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA), AFSA Local 1, New York City.

Cannizzaro Calls on School Leaders to ‘Bring the Movement National’ at CSA Leadership Conference

“If it’s just New York City, they can pick you off pretty easily, but when we stand together, when we support unions across the country, we’re unstoppable.”

Hungry Students Can't Learn: Fund SNAP

Major Education organizations have urged federal leaders to immediately release reserve funds and use any other available flexibilities without reducing support for other nutrition programs.

Social, Emotional Professional Development Online Workshop

Have you been riding a roller coaster of emotions lately?

COVID-19: Re-Entry and Beyond, Join the Conversation—May 5 at 4 p.m.

Districts across the nation were told to close their schools, send students and staff home, and begin to teach and learn in an online/remote environment.

Remembering Workers Who Died Because of the Job

Fifty years ago, Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and more than 40 years ago, Congress passed the Mine Safety and Health Act, promising every worker the right to a safe job.

Trumka: President Has Made COVID-19 Crisis Worse

GOP President Donald Trump “has made this crisis worse,” so organized labor “must do what the federal government has refused to do: Protect America’s workers” during the coronavirus pandemic, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says.

Safety First: Opening the Economy the Right Way

Workers are being exposed to the coronavirus in U.S. workplaces. Hundreds of thousands of workers have been infected and thousands have died.

The Pandemic’s Lessons for Schools

We are adapting our old rules and practices for short-term shutdowns like hurricanes and snowstorms and trying to make them work for long and indefinite closures.