“It was as if the children had won the lottery,” said Sophy Aponte, the UFT Teacher Center coach at PS 18, a UFT Community Learning School in the Bronx that received a donation of school supplies on April 21.

District 75 paraprofessionals with 30 or more years of service left a UFT celebration in their honor satisfied that their life's work had not gone unnoticed.

Debra Penny has been elected as a new trustee on the Teachers’ Retirement Board.

No UFT Teacher Center can promise to boost your rating from “Developing” to “Highly Effective” in one year, but that’s exactly what happened to Cheryl Saunders, a 6th-grade special education teacher at IS 240 in Brooklyn.

The theater teachers at PS 264 in Bay Ridge decided not to do a traditional Cinderella for their class's musical production.

Students at PS 33 in Queens Village beta tested a new online game featuring New York City landmarks and geography for the EmblemHealth website.

There’s more to hospital operations than meets the eye. Just ask the 4th- and 5th-graders from PS 100 in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who toured Coney Island Hospital on May 12 as part of a professional development day for students.

New York City career and technical education students walked off with 41 medals — 19 of them gold — in 26 different contests in the New York State SkillsUSA Leadership and Skills Competition in Syracuse over the spring break in April.

Changes to the city health plan affecting GHI-CBP and HIP in-service members and retirees who are not Medicare eligible take effect on July 1.

Supporting English language learners in your classroom is no simple task. Here is a list of strategies you can implement right away.