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Learn with Apple: Projects with Clips

Register for a UFT Teacher Center workshop on Apple's Clips app. These 60-minute UFT Apple workshops are designed especially for New York City educators. In this session, participants will dive into the creative world of the Clips app. Discover how this versatile tool can be used to captivate and showcase student learning in dynamic ways. Learn how to leverage features such as posters, media uploads, emojis, voice-over-video effects, live titles, music integration and more!

Learn with Apple: Gather Notes and Organize Ideas

Register for a UFT Teacher Center workshop on Apple's Clips app.  These 60-minute UFT Apple workshops are designed especially for New York City educators. In this session, pariticipants will learn how to leverage the iPad Notes app for instruction enhancement. Explore some of the diverse features of the app, including creating to-do lists, sketching, utilizing tables, organizing content and scanning documents. Unlock the full potential of this multipurpose tool and discover practical applications for teaching and learning.

UFT provides support for phonics-based curricula

Hundreds of UFT members took advantage of a free UFT Teacher Center course on the science of reading in July. The course, which combined in-person and virtual learning, was part of the union’s effort to support educators as the Department of...

Changing how we teach kids to read

UFT Vice President for Education Mary Vaccaro writes that the DOE will require the use of one of three evidence-based literacy programs grounded in phonics in all elementary schools by September 2024. The UFT Teacher Center is committed to doing...

A+ course options expand

In the four years since the introduction of A+ credits as part of the 2018 DOE-UFT contract, the course offerings have expanded for teachers working toward their MA+30 salary differential.

We’re your home for professional learning

UFT Vice President for Education Mary Vaccaro writes that the UFT Teacher Center has been a leader in providing New York City public school educators with high-quality professional learning for more than 40 years. The program recently has begun...

Middle Schools Conference

The UFT’s Middle Schools Conference was back on April 9 after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, with workshops on social and emotional wellness, culturally responsive STEAM classrooms, integrated co-teaching and other topics.

Centers of attention

When Cara Jacofsky began her teaching career 23 years ago, she was determined to become the best teacher she could be for her students, so she connected with the UFT Teacher Center. “The first few years of my teaching career, they would plan lessons...

Dream team

The teacher leader team at IS 145 in Jackson Heights, Queens, has stepped up to help keep pace with the changing needs of the students and the teachers at the school, which is located in one of the city’s most ethnically diverse neighborhoods.

Psychologists Appreciation Day

Nearly 400 school psychologists attended this year’s Psychologists Appreciation Day on Nov. 12, the chapter’s first hybrid event featuring workshops on assistive technology and intelligence assessments.