One of the many benefits of membership in the Teachers’ Retirement System is that members can borrow against their invested retirement funds.

Adaptive physical education teachers help improve students’ locomotor skills, object control skills, perceptual motor function and physical fitness in a setting that focuses on differentiating instruction so it is developmentally and socially...

The best antidote for the ongoing anti-union poison is member engagement. The UFT has launched a door-knocking campaign to connect with our members as the best way to prepare for the expected, potentially devastating Supreme Court decision in the...

The third annual Men in Education symposium drew more than 150 fathers, grandfathers, uncles, teachers and mentors to UFT headquarters in Manhattan on March 24 for a day of workshops, presentations and inspiration designed to help men become more...

Forty sophomores and juniors from the International School for the Liberal Arts in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx visited upstate college campuses on a two-day College Hunting trip on April 12 and 13.

This is one classroom management technique I use in my 1st-grade classroom.

The influence of classroom peers on student academics increases each year from 4th grade through 7th grade, when it begins to plateau, according to new research.

Tara Jarvis traverses New York City wearing a huge grin. “People smile back at me and that’s when I realize I’m smiling,” says Jarvis, a first-year art teacher of students with special needs at District 75’s Brooklyn Transition Center. After a...

The stories of scores of women who helped to build the UFT into the powerhouse it is today were told at a HERstory Sunday brunch on March 25 at union headquarters in Manhattan as part of Women's History Month.

The time has come again for UFT members to choose their union representatives at the school level. UFT members in each school or functional chapter must conduct chapter elections to determine who will represent them for the next three years.