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UFT Vice President for Elementary Schools and New Member Initative Director Karen Alford testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education regarding teacher recruitment and retention.
School secretaries attending the annual School Secretaries Seminar at UFT headquarters on Jan 21 received pointers on how to handle challenging people from Tina Puccio, the coordinator of the UFT’s Member Assistance Program, who also outlined the work of the UFT Victim Support Program.
Thousands of UFT members in New York City and in Washington, D.C. joined the millions worldwide who marched on Jan. 21, 2017 to send a message to President Donald Trump on his first day in office.
The second annual Braille Challenge, an academic competition for the visually impaired, took place on Jan. 21 at John F. Kennedy Jr. School in Queens. Children of all ages competed in four categories including reading comprehension and deciphering charts and graphs.
The 11th annual Clinician’s Professional Development Day drew more than 300 school social workers and psychologists, who came to hone their skills and spend some time with their colleagues in a supportive environment. The all-day event took place at UFT headquarters in lower Manhattan on Jan. 20.