UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds (right) shares a warm hug with Wanda Linares, the chapter leader at Gotham Collaborative HS in the Bronx, after Linares accepted an Outstanding Union Activist Award.

UFT members from Brooklyn International HS, wearing matching light-up bow ties, smile for the camera after accepting the Team High School Award for collaboration and promotion of a positive school culture.

Members from Queens Technical HS cheer on their colleague Maria Tsiolas, who took home a Community Champion Award for outstanding school-related professionals.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew addresses the crowd.

Sonia Burke, an Outstanding Union Activist honoree and a school counselor at A. Philip Randolph Campus HS in Harlem, shows off her homemade hat.

UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds (left) compliments the outfit of Sara Short, a teacher at Kingsborough Early College Secondary School and Excellence in Education Award recipient.

Honorees from Walton Campus in the Bronx share the stage with Bronx High Schools District Representative Daniel Rodriguez (left) and UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds (second from left). The chapter leaders of the schools on the Walton Campus took home Team High School Awards for their collaborative effort to save the schools’ shared library.

All of the honorees gather for a group photo with UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds on the steps to Shanker Hall at UFT headquarters.