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Passion and Promise video: PS 204, Brooklyn

What is the secret ingredient to success at PS 204 in Bensonhurst and so many other NYC public schools? Watch their video and find out!

Brooklyn’s District 20 wins #PublicSchoolProud award

District 20 came together to celebrate the arts in public school for the month of June. “District 20 is a large immigrant district. We have a huge immigrant population and a number of languages spoken,” Said District 20 Superintendent Karina...

PS 370, Brooklyn, wins #PublicSchoolProud award

PS 370, a District 75 school in Brooklyn, serves students with significant disabilities, and that requires some creative teaching. “Every child learns a completely different way from the student next to them,” says teacher Lisa Pines. The PS 370...

Kudos to Sandra Amede, MS 61, Brooklyn

Equilibrium has returned to MS 61, a well-respected Crown Heights school in with a strong gifted-and-talented program, after its relentless chapter leader took steps to get a bullying principal removed.

My students are the real champs

My students are the real champs! C- Cooperative, H- Honest, A- Accountable, M- Motivated, P- Polite!

Honing nonverbal communication skills

In my pre-K classroom, I strive to strengthen my students’ nonverbal communication skills because understanding facial expressions and gestures allows for communication to be fluid, natural and meaningful. For English language learners, these skills...

UFT pick Tish James wins primary

UFT-supported candidate Letitia “Tish” James won the Democratic nomination for state attorney general on Sept. 13, setting her up to make history as the first black woman to hold statewide office in New York should she win the general election in...

See change

PS 188 in Brooklyn, one of the UFT's 31 community learning schools, just became the first school in New York State with a fully equipped, full-service vision clinic that will serve its students and the roughly 5,000 students attending neighboring...

Fashion Show at Maxwell Career and Technical Education HS

Student talent — from fashion and award design to culinary and musical skill — was on display at William H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education HS in East New York, Brooklyn, as Maxwell hosted a fashion show on June 16.

In lockstep

A resounding feeling of togetherness characterized this year’s UFT 5K Family Run/Walk, which took place on May 6 in Coney Island.