UFT President Michael Mulgrew (standing, right) meets with educators at PS 157 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant/East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on June 1 to present an overview of the educational landscape and a question-and-answer session.

Among those at the meeting are Altagracia Hernandez (left), a 1st-grade teacher, and Wanda Salerno, a 6th-grade teacher.

Educator Karen Blythe Major makes a point.

Educators listen to news about educational challenges here and across the country.

Wanda Salerno raises an issue.

Laura Peterson asks a question.

Mulgrew talks after the meeting with (from left) PS 157 Chapter Leader Daniela Luccioni, Yeidy Levels and Josemi Fermin.

PS 157 educator Roseann Dalton gets some time with UFT District 14 Representative Iradies Munet.

It’s a colorful world inside and outside of art teacher Susan Lee-Hettinger’s PS 157 classroom.

Mulgrew and PS 157 Chapter Leader Daniela Luccioni.

Pre-K teacher Michelle Renna welcomes Mulgrew into her classroom at PS 23 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

PS 23 Chapter Leader Liz Cortes (left), a 4th/5th-grade math teacher, and Magdalene Poulos, a 4th/5th-grade reading teacher, discussed some of the exciting new programs at their school with Mulgrew as they led him through the building.

All hands are raised for a spirited lesson in Travis Russell’s kindergarten classroom at PS 23.

Mulgrew learns about the science experiments going on in Debra Prout’s hands-on science room at PS 23.