Mulgrew visits Lyons Community School, the Green School and Brooklyn Latin School

September 22, 2015

Mulgrew visits Lyons Community School, the Green School and Brooklyn Latin School

UFT President Michael Mulgrew and AFT president Randi Weingarten held a breakfast meeting with teachers and other staff at co-located Lyons Community School, the Green School: An Academy for Environmental Careers and Brooklyn Latin School in Williamsburg on Sept. 22 to discuss the PROSE program and other topics.

Lyons Community Schools teachers and other staff, including Principal Taeko Onishi (seated on floor, in blue skirt, wearing glasses), listen to UFT President Michael Mulgrew talk about his own teaching experiences that led him to want to build the PROSE program during a Sept. 22 meeting in Williamsburg.

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Staffers listen to Mulgrew while finishing breakfast.

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Lyons English teacher Avram Kline (on floor, center) asks Mulgrew about ways that PROSE can help preserve art and music programs.

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AFT President Randi Weingarten talks with Lyons special education teacher Rob Martz, while Mulgrew chats with physical education teacher and basketball coach Steve Revell in the dance classroom before the start of school.

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Lyons Chapter Leader Daniel Morgenroth with Mulgrew and Weingarten.

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Green School Chapter Leader Kyle van Nort talks about the school’s efforts to introduce restorative justice as a school discipline practice.

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Meeting with Weingarten (lower right) and Mulgrew (right) in the school library are (from left) Green School Principal Cara Tait-Fanor, Chapter Leader Kyle Van Nort, UFT Brooklyn Borough representative Debra Poulos and UFT District 14 Representative Iradies Munet.

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