Nancy Miller, a member of the Federation of Nurses/UFT, has worked at Staten Island University Hospital for 34 years, the last six in the post-anesthesia care unit at the hospital’s South site.

With Teacher’s Choice, I purchased Didax algebra tiles to use as manipulatives during my 7th-grade expressions-and-equations unit. The tiles are squares and rectangles of different colors and sizes. The way I used them was to represent variables...

When I first came to my school, I felt the same way a lot of people do — that students should bring their own supplies. But when you work in an impoverished area, you find that more and more children come to school with nothing — not even a pencil to...

I teach students in grades K–5 either once or twice a week; each lesson ends with a lab experiment of some sort. That’s around 17 classes’ worth of experiments a week. So how do I run these labs? With everyday household goods, of course! For example...

Part of our reading unit is about awesome animals and insects. We wanted to explore the metamorphosis stage of butterflies, but the school’s funding couldn’t support us in that so we ordered it on our own using Teacher’s Choice funding. Each kid gets...

Salvadori is a program that shows students how art, design, math and science are embedded in the buildings, bridges and landmarks of the city. I do the project as an extension of a social studies unit on China with my 3rd-grade gifted and talented...

I buy a lot of books because the books that are provided in my classroom library are really outdated — nothing that students are interested in reading, nothing that stands out to them. I get excited about books and I want my students to get excited...

Charter schools have far higher suspension rates than public schools and are exempt from the DOE discipline code.