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• Not perfect, but better

  There was a time when the staff at PS 276 in Brooklyn could only accentuate the negative about Principal Jonathan Straughn. A time when they picketed in protest in front of their school. And a time when the principal, who called the union “toxic,” refused to meet with UFT President Randi Weingarten on her Oct. 3, 2006 visit to the school to try to sort things out.

• Citizen/soldier makes his mark in classroom and, soon, in Iraq

  Tony Plata, 5th-grade teacher and data specialist at PS 46 in the Bronx, leads a double life: He’s also a captain in the New York National Guard with more than 130 soldiers under his command.

• Tribute to paras stresses partnership with teachers

  The UFT hailed the contributions of New York City classroom paraprofessionals at the union’s annual Para Festival.

• Working in a Yoga Wonderland

  There’s a new approach to a 5,000-year-old curriculum at PS 811 in the Bronx. And the lesson plans were designed by one of the earliest unions.

• Making beautiful music together

  Two beacons of light illuminate a single state-of-the-art building in Brooklyn’s District 23.

• What a ‘Rush’!

  “Raise It Up,” the glorious signature song from the movie “August Rush,” was the brainchild of teacher and musician Tevin Thomas and a few of his jam-buddies from Impact Repertory Theatre in Harlem.

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