A festive celebration is underway as the UFT Community Learning Schools community celebrates the end of the school year.

Among the PS 65, Queens, celebrants are (from left) Principal Rafael Morales, Chapter Leader Michelle Stango, Director Lianna Brenner and teachers Lisa Calcagnile and Christine Rodriguez.

UFT District 21 Representative Kate O’Hagan (back row, center) joins reps of IS 96.

UFT Vice President for Elementary Schools Karen Alford (third from right) poses with PS 30 celebrants (from left) Mary LeBlond, who’s retired; Shell Lewis, the community school director; Johnnie Mae Russell, who’s retired; Tonya Spry of the UFT Teacher Center; and Monika Fleming, a teacher.

Members from PS 196, Brooklyn, and PS 78, Staten Island, gather for a group photo.

Award winners (seated, from left) Marie Rodriguez, the director at Curtis HS, Staten Island; Maria Brancale of PS 78, Staten Island; Lianna Brenner, the director at PS 65, Queens; Johnnie Mae Russell, a Teacher Center staffer at PS 30, Manhattan; and (standing, center) Richard Burke, the chapter leader at PS 19, Queens, post with UFT Vice President for Elementary Schools Karen Alford (standing, left) and Christine Schuch, the executive director of the UFT’s Community Learning Schools.

Community school directors and CLS staff from central UFT.

Students and staff from the International School for Liberal Arts, the Bronx, which has been part of the CLS Initiative since 2013–14, take a team photo. The students made all the desserts served at the party.