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Visual support for developing vocabulary

All the bulletin boards in my classroom have pictures to explain the strategies I teach.

TV ad: Stop blaming teachers

The UFT took to the airwaves on Feb. 3 in its all-out campaign to blast Governor Cuomo’s education priorities and to educate the public and state lawmakers about what #AllKidsNeed.

PS 209 and P 9 where kindness counts!

One 5th-grader stopped some boys from another class from teasing his friend. “I know what to do to be a good friend and person,” he explained.

UFT African-American Heritage Committee Dinner Dance

For the past 12 years, members and friends of the UFT African-American Heritage Committee have gathered to mark Black History Month and to honor those who exemplify the group’s ideals.

The power of sharing

A mindfulness committee is just one of the ways in which educators at the ASL & English Secondary School have been able to use the dedicated PD time in the new UFT-DOE contract to customize their individual professional learning experiences.

UFT: DOE needs to hire more ELL teachers

Sounding the alarm that students just learning English are not getting the services and supports they need, UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus told the City Council Education Committee on Feb. 25 that the Department of Education needs to...

UFT to close its K–8 charter; seeks renewal for high school

The UFT announced on Feb. 27 that it will close its K–8 charter school in East New York, Brooklyn, at the end of the school year. At the same time, the union has asked the State University of New York to renew the charter for grades 9–12.

Light shed on Cuomo’s harmful agenda in live webcast

UFT President Michael Mulgrew convened a live webcast Q-&-A on Feb. 10 to paint a clearer picture for members of the governor’s harmful education proposals and the looming state budget negotiations in which the governor wields inordinate power.