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They’ve got the beat
A new drum line at the East Village Community School in Manhattan allows students to grow and explore through music.
Teaching is a calling— and I was called to teach
I couldn’t sleep the night before school. As a third-year teacher and a career changer, I sometimes still can’t believe I’m a special education teacher at the same public high school my daughter once attended.
The power of words
Students from Manhattan's Maxine Greene HS for Imagination and Inquiry brought history to life through the words of minorities, the working poor, immigrants, rebels and dissenters, at a Lincoln Center performance that capped their two-year AP...
Thomas Walsh
Thomas Walsh was a UFT member for 34 years, most recently teaching English literature at the LaGuardia High School of Music and Art in Manhattan.
In his class, learning equals fun and games
A five-year veteran of Major League Lacrosse, Kieran McArdle is a first-year K–5 physical education teacher at PS 48 in upper Manhattan and the embodiment of what the city’s Department of Education hopes to achieve with PE Works.
Citywide Chapter Leader Meeting 2019
Chapter leaders from across the city gathered at UFT headquarters on Sept. 20 to learn more about their responsibilities and the issues facing New York City public schools as the new school year begins.
Manhattan Parent Newsletter - September 2019
This is the Sept. 20 issue of the Manhattan parent newsletter.
‘Signs’ of respect
When Rita Fattorusso invites one of her prekindergarten students to the front of the class to lead morning exercises, the other students pay strict attention. If they don’t, they’ll miss their classmate’s instructions: He uses American Sign Language...
Learning about ‘sacrifice and compromise’
Fourth-graders from Brooklyn’s PS 10 who took the “Sweatshop Workers” tour at the Tenement Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side were fascinated to learn about the immigrant children who had lived there.
Labor Day Parade 2019
More than a thousand UFT members and their families marched up Fifth Avenue in the annual Labor Day Parade, and then gathered for food and games at a barbecue at the Robert F. Wagner Middle School on the Upper East Side.