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Bronx Week, the annual event celebrating the borough’s rich history and attractions, this year featured a May 11 Bronx Educators Appreciation Day at the UFT borough office, which drew some 800 UFT members, family, friends, local elected officials and a smattering of school principals and district superintendents to honor the award-winners.
More than any other organization the UFT is positioned to lead the effort to make New York City’s schools the greatest school system in the United States. We will never stop fighting until our school system is the best school system in this country.
From promoting compassion to reinventing the school model, from exploring new technology to implementing dynamic teaching practices, the workshops at the 2012 UFT Spring Education Conference reflected the changing landscape of education. “We’re moving away from the concept of teaching as an island unto yourself,” said Mitch Godkin of Russell Sage JHS in Queens.
Saying that the union won’t wait for Bloomberg’s departure in 2013, UFT President Michael Mulgrew on May 12 mapped out a path for improving New York City public education built on bringing the public back into public education and ensuring that city schools work for and with the whole community.
He never expected to be elected to the New York City Council and chair its education committee. “Robert Jackson always fought for the right thing, never acting out of a political plan, but got where he was fight by fight,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew, presenting Jackson with the John Dewey Award, awarded for excellence in education, on May 12.
UFT members got their annual chance to grill the experts on some tough education questions at Operation Soapbox, the opening event of the union’s Spring Education Conference. UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University, were on the hot seat.
Student work from schools across the city was on display to impress and educate at the Spring Education Conference exhibit fair.
More than 500 people came to the UFT’s District 21 Scholarship Dinner Dance on May 10 in Brooklyn to honor those who have made a positive difference for children and school communities and to raise money for worthy scholarship winners from each school in the district.
More than 200 educators came to UFT headquarters on May 10 for a conference on combating bullying that was jointly sponsored by the union and the Council for Unity. The conference featured a keynote address by the director of the documentary “Bully,” an array of workshops, and a panel discussion with activists from a wide range of backgrounds.
The UFT Speech Improvement Chapter held its annual Better Speech and Hearing Month celebration on May 7. Awards were presented for the best speech and hearing projects.
Eadie Shanker’s name is often followed by the description, “wife of the late UFT and AFT president, Albert Shanker.” But the former Queens teacher blazed some trails of her own — which is why she was named a winner of the Not For Ourselves Alone: The Sandy Feldman Outstanding Leadership Award at the NYSUT Representative Assembly in Buffalo on April 26.
Proud parents, family members and friends joined UFTers, administrators, and community and political leaders on April 19 at a Queens catering hall to celebrate the 13th annual District 24 Scholarship Dinner Dance.
After the Annual Meetings wrapped up, the chapter got back to holding its general membership meetings in Shanker Hall, Manhattan, the first taking place on April 17.
More than 370 educators turned out for a night of honoring their own and raising money for a good cause at the annual UFT District 20 Scholarship Dinner Dance on May 2 in Brooklyn.
City Councilman Robert Jackson, the chair of the Council’s Education Committee, will receive the union’s most prestigious honor at its annual Spring Education Conference this year. Jackson will be presented the John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education on Saturday, May 12, at the New York Hilton.
The UFT’s 26th annual School Secretaries of the Year Awards Luncheon on March 31 honored members with its six traditional awards and a new one.
The Hellenic American Education Association/UFT held its annual Greek heritage celebration on March 15 at union headquarters with a look back on the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire, which was won on March 25, 1821.
The theme of the day was “Collaboration: Changing Lives Together,” and it brought 450 early childhood educators to UFT headquarters for their fifth annual conference on March 24. “We can’t do it alone, we know it takes parents, teachers, family child care providers, administrators and advocates for children,” said UFT Vice President for Elementary Schools Karen Alford.
Members of the executive board of the UFT’s Guidance Counselors Chapter received a treat at their monthly meeting on March 19: the presentation, by UFT Director of Staff LeRoy Barr, of a proclamation from the City Council recognizing the chapter’s work in honor of National School Counseling Week, which took place Feb. 6-10.
The secret is out: Aminda Gentile, the former UFT vice president and Teacher Center director, loves Tootsie Rolls and Peppermint Patties. The scores of friends, relatives and colleagues who gathered at a retirement party in her honor on March 22 learned her secret when she was presented with a large crystal bowl filled with her sweet-tooth favorites.
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