Friday, June 9, will be a remote workday for all DOE employees due to the unhealthy air quality. It will be a remote-instruction day for students scheduled to be in attendance.
The Living for the Young Family (LYFE) program provides child care for teen parents enrolled in high school or high school equivalency programs. The educators in LYFE also provide parenting classes and individual instruction to the student parents as well.
The union’s signature education conference of the year was a fun and inspiring day for more than 1,300 UFT members that featured a morning discussion on self-care, CTLE workshops, a performance by hip-hop icon Kurtis Blow and a gala luncheon.
Hip-hop legend Kurtis Blow gives a few educators a chance to join in during his energetic performance. Blow also spoke about “hip-hop pedagogy” programs in schools and his newly formed labor union for artists, the Hip-Hop Alliance.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew leads the crowd in a karaoke rendition of “Come and Get Your Love” after a speech about using love to fight all the hate directed at educators.
Setting boundaries, work-life balance and managing stress were some of the topics tackled by townhall panelists (from left) Dr. Pina LoGiuduce, a a naturopathic doctor; Dido Balla from MindUp; Liza Reyes, a UFT Teacher Center site coach at PS/IS 266 in Queens; Tina Puccio, the UFT Member Assistance Program director; Michelle Jervis, a school social worker at IS 391 in the Bronx; and UFT President Michael Mulgrew, the moderator.
Members take a moment for guided meditation and deep breathing during the town hall.
AFT President Randi Weingarten (left) and UFT President Michael Mulgrew (right) share a joke with the crowd during a luncheon full of rousing speeches and singalongs.
William Tsang, a CTE teacher and technical coordinator at In-Tech Academy (MS/HS 368) in the Bronx, works with his information technology students to demonstrate a video game on a student-built computer.
Donna Coppola, a UFT rep for Staten Island (back row, left) and Joseph Caputo, the CTE dental lab teacher at Tottenville HS, smile for the camera with dental lab students and some of the prosthetics they build at their school.
Participants in the Autism in the Classroom workshop share their thoughts about the developmental disorder after reading a brief article about it.
Hip-hop legend Kurtis Blow gives a few educators a chance to join in during his energetic performance. Blow also spoke about “hip-hop pedagogy” programs in schools and his newly formed labor union for artists, the Hip-Hop Alliance.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew leads the crowd in a karaoke rendition of “Come and Get Your Love” after a speech about using love to fight all the hate directed at educators.
Setting boundaries, work-life balance and managing stress were some of the topics tackled by townhall panelists (from left) Dr. Pina LoGiuduce, a a naturopathic doctor; Dido Balla from MindUp; Liza Reyes, a UFT Teacher Center site coach at PS/IS 266 in Queens; Tina Puccio, the UFT Member Assistance Program director; Michelle Jervis, a school social worker at IS 391 in the Bronx; and UFT President Michael Mulgrew, the moderator.
Members take a moment for guided meditation and deep breathing during the town hall.
AFT President Randi Weingarten (left) and UFT President Michael Mulgrew (right) share a joke with the crowd during a luncheon full of rousing speeches and singalongs.
William Tsang, a CTE teacher and technical coordinator at In-Tech Academy (MS/HS 368) in the Bronx, works with his information technology students to demonstrate a video game on a student-built computer.
Donna Coppola, a UFT rep for Staten Island (back row, left) and Joseph Caputo, the CTE dental lab teacher at Tottenville HS, smile for the camera with dental lab students and some of the prosthetics they build at their school.
Participants in the Autism in the Classroom workshop share their thoughts about the developmental disorder after reading a brief article about it.
