{"id":8527,"date":"2025-11-09T19:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mybobs.com\/blog\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:28:50","slug":"heroes-at-home-tony-apuzzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybobs.com\/blog\/heroes-at-home-tony-apuzzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes at Home: Tony Apuzzi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tony Apuzzi<\/strong><br><strong>Westchester County, NY\u00a0<\/strong><br><strong>Special Education teacher, Port Chester High School<\/strong><br><strong>Founder of The Positivity Project\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For New York-based special education teacher Tony Apuzzi, the seeds of his mentorship nonprofit, The Positivity Project, were sown in 2001, when he began to reward students for achieving their goals with pieces from his prized sports memorabilia collection \u2014 almost 25 years later, he\u2019s grown the organization into one that connects his students with inspiration from successful athletes imparting academic and life lessons alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What drew you to this kind of work? What do you enjoy most about your work or volunteer service?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I started teaching in 1998. My entire career I\u2019ve always worked with at-risk, inner city kids and [for a span of time] court-adjudicated kids \u2014 a lot of whom didn\u2019t see a value in education. They were talking about dropping out, and I wanted to find a way to get them to understand how important education is. It\u2019s one thing coming from me, but it\u2019s a whole other thing when it\u2019s coming from individuals [like athletes] that they look up to and follow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a massive autograph collector \u2014 when I first started teaching I was trying to find ways to connect with my students and encourage them to do their homework. I started using sports memorabilia as a reward system for my students, and every time they met academic or social goals they would earn something. That morphed into me reaching out to sports teams to get tickets for kids to go to games \u2014&nbsp; we were able to take them to Yankees, Mets, Islanders, Knicks, Liberty games. [It was then that] I started making acquaintances with a lot of these athletes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, I was at a conference at the New York Institute for Special Education (NYI) and I was listening to Christy Rampone, who was the captain of the U.S. Women\u2019s Olympic soccer team. She was talking about how it\u2019s a challenge to get her kids to do their homework, and as she was talking, I kept thinking, <em>I wish my students could hear her talk<\/em>. At the end of the night, I had a conversation with her and mentioned that my students were a lot like her kids \u2014 I have trouble getting them to do their homework and come to school \u2014 and I asked if we could videotape a little message to them. She said, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s do that\u2019 and the kids really enjoyed it. I started thinking, <em>Can I do more of these<\/em>? And that\u2019s where the idea for the Positivity Project came up \u2014 because these people are positive role models, these are people that kids look up to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve also always had a background in photography, and I\u2019ve shot a lot of MLB, NFL, NHL games, and I started reaching out to venues asking if we could get credentials so that they could come in and ask questions \u2014 and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been doing now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing I enjoy most is helping kids that need positive role models in their life \u2014 helping them reach their goals, and move far beyond what their goals are. For a lot of my kids, graduating high school is a huge goal and getting into college is an even bigger goal. Getting them past high school and getting them into college and seeing them succeed is one of the things that I love about my job.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Can you share a moment or experience that made you especially proud?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The one that is the most meaningful to me \u2014 when I was [teaching] in the South Bronx at Paul Laurence Dunbar, I had a kid who had just lost both her parents and she was being raised by her grandmother. She had made a promise to her grandfather before he died that she would become the first person in the family to graduate college, and her grandmother asked me if I would help her reach that goal. The trust that her grandmother had in me to help her granddaughter was something that I was really proud of \u2014&nbsp; and she not only graduated from high school, she also graduated from college with an undergrad and graduate degree.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What and\/or who has influenced or inspired the way you serve others?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a way, it\u2019s a stress reliever. When I\u2019m under a lot of stress, working with the kids makes me forget what\u2019s going on in my life and keeps me focused on what\u2019s really important. There are little things that pop up in life that are not that important, but working with kids to help them reach their goals \u2014 that\u2019s the important stuff.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest influence in my life would probably be Alphonsina Torelli. She taught me the greatest lesson in my life \u2014 when you\u2019re looking at something, try not to see what it is \u2014 try to see what it could become. That\u2019s a lesson I\u2019ve taken through all my years of teaching. 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I just wish more people knew that if they\u2019d get involved and become role models for kids in their communities, we\u2019d be living in a much better world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>If you could give one message of encouragement to your community, what would it be?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s so important to surround yourself with positive role models and positive people \u2014 because when you do that, it\u2019s more than likely that positive things are going to happen. 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