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      • Why You Should Join HART
      • Membership and Benefits
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      • HART Photo Gallery
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      CONTACT US
      • Home
      • Why You Should Join HART
      • Membership and Benefits
      • INSIDE LINE
      • HART NEWS-Events
      • Legislative Priorities
      • HART President Johnnie
      • HART Photo Gallery
      • Newsletter
      • HART Sings
      • Contact Us
      • About Us
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        • Home
        • Why You Should Join HART
        • Membership and Benefits
        • INSIDE LINE
        • HART NEWS-Events
        • Legislative Priorities
        • HART President Johnnie
        • HART Photo Gallery
        • Newsletter
        • HART Sings
        • Contact Us
        • About Us
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      • The Houston Association of Retired Teachers (HART)

        A local chapter of the Texas Retired Teachers Association (TRTA)

        Meeting location:

        • Episcopal Church of the Epiphany 9600 S. GessnerHouston, TX 77071
        • 9:30 a.m. Social Time
        • 10:00 a.m. Meeting
        • March 14 - General Meeting: Healthy Living, Go Western and BBQ Lunch
        • April 11 – General Meeting: What is Alzheimers? Recognition of HART Scholarship Recipients
        • May 9 – General Meeting: Celebrate a great year!
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        Why Join HART and TRTA:

        • To stay informed on our retirement benefits and health insurance;
        • To support HART’s programs which include Books For Children, HART’s Scholarship Fund, HART’s Continuing Education Fund for Teachers, and the Stilwell Residence for Retired Educators;
        • To participate in monthly field trips to places of interest in the greater Houston area;
        • Additional insurance and discounts through AMBA;
        • To meet new friends, connect with old friends and colleagues, and, most importantly, to have fun!

      • Membership

        WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO JOIN THE HOUSTON ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED TEACHERS?

        • An annuitant or a beneficiary receiving an annuity from a teacher retirement system can become a member of HART and TRTA upon payment of local dues and state dues.
        • Any person interested in public education and willing to work to achieve the purposes of TRTA upon payment of local dues and state dues.

        MEMBERSHIP IS $50.00 PER YEAR
        $15.00 of the fee is for HART membership.
        $35.00 of the fee is for Texas Retired Teachers Association membership.

        Use one of the following three methods to join:

        1. Click here to download an application that you can mail to HART, P.O. Box 6727, Houston, TX 77265-6727
        2. Come to any HART monthly meeting and join during the meeting.
        3. Join HART/TRTA online below. If you use the online payment method there is an additional $3.00 service charge added to the cost of the yearly membership. This option is only for members who do not auto pay their TRTA dues.

      • To order your membership online, click on the photo below.

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        HART/TRTA Membership
        $53.00
      • Two smiling HART  women members

        INSIDE LINE

        Make certain that you receive TRTA's Inside Line eMail by Executive Director Tim Lee and learn about issues and events that affect you by CLICKING HERE.

      • News From HART

        Join us for Day at the Capitol
        Every year that the Texas Legislature convenes, members of TRTA travel to Austin to meet with our...
        Expanding Horizons
        The next Expanding Horizons trip is April 15 to visit with ex-HISD Superintendent Kay Stripling....
        TRTA 2024-2025 Tours (Click Me)
        September 28 - October 4, 2024 - Cape Cod, The Islands and New England November 12-20, 2024 -...
      • Legislative Priorities of HART and TRTA:

        • Maintain a solvent TRS pension fund by fully funding statutory contribution rates and using excess state revenues to help reduce the unfunded liability;
        • Provide a benefit enhancement to help offset the negative impact of inflation;
        • Maintain and protect TRS-Care by fully funding the current statutory contribution rates.
        A group of Hart members at the Texas State Legislature.

        To learn who represents you and how to contact those persons CLICK HERE.

        To learn if you are registered to vote and if your voter registration is up-to-date, CLICK HERE.

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        HART President

        Johnnie Robinson

        HART Board Members & Officers 2024-2025 (Click Here)

      • HART Photo Gallery

        Photos & videos from our events

        Expanding Horizons
        March 2025 meeting
        March 2025 meeting
        Expanding Horizons
        Books for Children
        Expanding Horizons
        D4 2024 Spring Conference
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        We're Not Going Back to School
        We're Not Going Back to School
        HART 5/13/2022 Meeting
        TRTA April 2022 State Conf.
        At  the TRTA 2022 State Conf.
        At the TRTA 2022 Conference
        2021 Annual Holiday Luncheon
        2021 Annual Holiday Luncheon
        2021 Annual Holiday Luncheon
        2021 Annual Holiday Luncheon
        2021 Annual Holiday Luncheon
        2021 Annual Holiday Luncheon
        2021 Annual Holiday Luncheon
        2021 Annual Holiday Luncheon
        Opening: HART Meeting 11/19/21
        HART Meeting 11/19/2021
        HARTbeat Editor Howard Lindsay
        Correspondence Cards
      • HARTbeat Newsletters

        Cherry Wong, Editor

        Issues (Click on the issue you want to read)

        August 2021

        November 2021

        February 2022

        May 2022

        August 2022

        November 2022

        February 2023

        May 2023

        August 2023

        February 2024

        May 2024

        August 2024

        November 2024

        February 2025

      • HART Sings!

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        Paul and Sue Ofeld receive the Dr. Kate Bell Memorial "Spirit of Hart" award for their music contributions to the Houston Association of Retired Teachers.

      • HART Projects:

        HART Scholarship Fund, Inc.

        Each spring, the Houston Association of Retired Teachers awards up to five scholarships to junior or senior students who are enrolled in a college of education. We rotate through the following universities: University of Houston, St. Thomas University, Houston Baptist University, Rice University, and Texas Southern University.

        Mail Donations to:HART Scholarship Fund, Inc. P.O. Box 6727Houston 77265-6727.

        • The 2024 HARTScholarship winners attend Rice University and are working toward their Master ofArts in Teaching, specifically math.
        • Mitch Blakely, who is a lawyer bytraining, discovered he has a passion for teaching while subbing in a mathclassroom.
        • Nma Ejiawoko earned her BS in Mathematics from South Carolina StateUniversity in 2022 and is a student-teacher resident in Spring Branch districtthis term.
        • Gregory Kabay comes from a family of teachers: his parents aremembers of HART; his wife is a teacher in HISD; and Gregory taught at ParkerElementary in Houston ISD for fifteen years.
        • Rathna Ramesh, who received a BAin Social Policy Analysis from Rice University in December of 2023, strives tomake her classroom a space where students can enjoy learning.
        • Sechan Yoon, who tutored students in Guam and received his BAin Mathematics from Rice University in 2023, wants to be mindful of holdingevery one of his students to a high standard and believes that every studentcan achieve great things both in and outside of the classroom.
        • Each recipientwill receive $1500 to be applied toward the summer or fall semester of 2024.Thank you for your generous support of the HART Scholarship Fund, which allows us to support future teachers in our local universities.

        HART Continuing Education Fund #1

        Stilwell Retirement Residence/ Kate Bell Assistance Fund

        Kids' Meals

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        Webmaster - Richard A. Smith
        Immediate Past Webmaster - Tom Sanders
         

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