Planting seeds of change at Manhattan school
A new community service club at MS 247 in Manhattan is changing the lives of its student members and the people their projects benefit.
Richard Porta
Richard Porta was a school counsellor at PS 134 in Manhattan known for his dedication.
They’ve got the beat
A new drum line at the East Village Community School in Manhattan allows students to grow and explore through music.
Amy Sims
Amy Sims served as a UFT chapter leader at City College Academy of the Arts in Manhattan for seven years.
UFT parent conferences
Kasandra Charles took a friend, a new public school parent, to a UFT parent conference in Queens on Nov. 10. It was “the best way to introduce her to the school system,” Charles said. The ninth annual Queens parent conference, and the union...
Kudos to Amanda Walsh, PS/MS 108 in East Harlem
When her former principal at PS/MS 108 in East Harlem declared, “The UFT is bad for teachers, bad for students and bad for schools,” Chapter Leader Amanda Walsh accepted the challenge and stood up to him.
In his class, learning equals fun and games
A five-year veteran of Major League Lacrosse, Kieran McArdle is a first-year K–5 physical education teacher at PS 48 in upper Manhattan and the embodiment of what the city’s Department of Education hopes to achieve with PE Works.
Teaching is a calling— and I was called to teach
I couldn’t sleep the night before school. As a third-year teacher and a career changer, I sometimes still can’t believe I’m a special education teacher at the same public high school my daughter once attended.
The power of words
Students from Manhattan's Maxine Greene HS for Imagination and Inquiry brought history to life through the words of minorities, the working poor, immigrants, rebels and dissenters, at a Lincoln Center performance that capped their two-year AP...
RX for success
The intent young scientists in sterile lab coats, masks and gloves laboring at busy lab stations like professional researchers are actually 11th-graders at Union Square Academy for Health Sciences, the only high school in New York City with a...