Remote control
As teachers navigate the world of remote classrooms, they get a boost from tech-savvy colleagues.
UFT Teacher Center played vital role
The UFT Teacher Center, a comprehensive school-based professional development program, provides vital technology assistance and ongoing support to educators on both technology and content issues.
Painting the bigger picture
Janet Lombardi and her son, Zach, are both Staten Island teachers, who share their passion for activism through art with their elementary school students.
A room for nursing moms
IS 61 now has a “calm, quiet and clean” lactation room thanks to the efforts of Hearing Education Services Chapter Leader Raquel Sepulveda and the school's principal and parent coordinator.
Noteworthy graduate: Dr. Sara Guevara, family medicine physician
Dr. Sara Guevara built on the mentoring and support she received in Brooklyn public schools to become a family medicine physician who is working in underserved communities in New York City.
March 16, 1960: The UFT is founded
On March 16, 1960, members of the Teachers Guild voted to merge with the High School Teachers Association to form the United Federation of Teachers.
Keep calm and teach on
The Bronx Collaborative Schools Plan is helping Kingsbridge International HS in the Bronx, one of 50 schools that joined the DOE-UFT initiative’s original cohort last year, focus and improve on the school community’s social-emotional learning.
Learning on tap
For his work at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, where he has made water the core area of study this year in his environmental science classes, Jared Fox received a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching Science...
Learning through a different lens
Educators at Manhattan’s HS for Environmental Studies have found a new way to infuse environmental issues in the curriculum: through the lens of a TV camera.
Remembering Aamir
Aamir Griffin, a 14-year-old freshman, was doing what he loved most — practicing on a court near his home in Jamaica — when he was killed by a stray bullet in October.