It was a day of greetings and learning for educators and students across the city as they headed back to school on Sept. 8, 2022.

During the UFT-sponsored March Madness initiative in which union members at roughly 200 schools participated, Horace Harding School PS 206Q Chapter Leader Emma Gomez inspired colleagues to produce unique celebrations for each school day that month.

Pink Day returned to schools as UFT members across the city dressed in pink on Oct. 13 to raise awareness about breast cancer.

With social distancing guidelines and aggressive health and safety measures in effect, New York City public schools welcomed back thousands of students during a phased reopening.

Kids are kids, whether the calendar says 1890, 1910 or 2019.

So when 4th-graders from Brooklyn’s PS 10 took the “Sweatshop Workers” tour at the Tenement Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it’s no wonder they were fascinated to learn about the immigrant children who had lived there.

It was the first day of school for 1.1 million children and their educators and families across New York City on Sept. 5, 2019.