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Providers Professional Development Spring Trainings: Marketing Your Child Care Program

Don't miss out on the UFT Professional Provider Education Program's upcoming professional development courses. This five week course is designed to fulfill a provider's 30-hour professional development requirement for license renewal. This course can be applied to OCFS training topics 3, 4 and 5.

Providers Professional Development Spring Trainings: The Family Engagement Journey

Don't miss out on the UFT Professional Provider Education Program's upcoming professional development courses. This five week course is designed to fulfill a provider's 30-hour professional development requirement for license renewal. This course can be applied to OCFS training topics 3 and 5.

Providers Professional Development Spring Trainings: ECE Health and Safety Practices

Don't miss out on the UFT Professional Provider Education Program's upcoming professional development courses. This five week course is designed to fulfill a provider's 30-hour professional development requirement for license renewal. This course can be applied to OCFS training topics 1 and 3.

Providers Professional Development Spring Trainings: Abusive Head Trauma

Don't miss out on the UFT Professional Provider Education Program's upcoming professional development courses. This five week course is designed to fulfill a provider's 30-hour professional development requirement for license renewal. This course can be applied to OCFS training topics 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9.

Katrina Thomas, PS 289, Brooklyn

Discarded plastic bottles inspired Katrina Thomas, the chapter leader at PS 289 in Brooklyn, to take the initiative to raise money to build a kindergarten in Ghana.

How I calculated true 'success'

An elementary school teacher shares what a math lesson taught him about a new way to measure success in this latest installment of New Teacher Diaries.

Noteworthy Graduate: Ariella Moshchinsky, Pediatric anesthesiologist

Growing up near Coney Island, Brooklyn, Ariella Moshchinsky knew early on that she would pursue a career in the sciences — and she says it was her public school education in Brooklyn schools that helped inspire her to achieve that goal.


‘Black’ eye for DOE

In a tremendous show of solidarity and the power of union organizing, hundreds of UFT members across District 21 in Brooklyn wore black in support of their colleagues at PS 99 in their struggle with their principal.


Brooklyn Parent Conference 2025

More than 100 parents, caretakers, educators and community members gathered at the UFT’s Brooklyn borough office on Oct. 25 for the UFT Brooklyn parent committee’s annual conference. This year’s conference theme was “Organize and Activate,” and attendees took in workshops on school safety, political action, special education and PTA organizing.

Growing scientists in Gowanus

Amber Carlin-Mishkin doesn’t just teach science — she teaches her students to think like scientists. Through a new partnership with the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, the 5th-grade teacher at PS 118 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, helps her students view their...