While UFT President Michael Mulgrew brought the capacity crowd from Districts 16 and 23 at the Meet the President gathering on April 23 up to date on scores of current issues, he put the focus on the future, what he called “the bigger discussion — where do we want to go?”

UFT President Michael Mulgrew addressed the challenge facing teachers trying to prepare students for more difficult tests based on the new Common Core Learning Standards without a curriculum during a Meet the President gathering for District 15 members on April 15.

Dozens of UFT members from the School Secretaries and the Teachers Assigned chapters attended a Meet the President event at UFT headquarters on April 18.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew had a wide-ranging discussion with high school educators from Brooklyn and the Brooklyn and Staten Island HS district (BASIS) at a gathering at Brooklyn Tech HS on April 16. Among the topics discussed were the upcoming mayoral election, what the future of education should look like in New York City, the fact-finding process to resolve the contract impasse, teacher evaluations and school budgets.

Paperwork, SESIS compliance, testing and more testing — all the things that take time away from instruction — were a prevalent theme at the Meet the President event for members from Districts 27 and 28, held at the UFT’s Queens borough office on Dec. 13.