Although designating your financial beneficiaries isn’t as exciting as designating your next big unit of study, enrolling in the Teachers’ Retirement System is an important part of launching your teaching career.

Could you imagine what the city would say if the UFT closed the schools for a day to march in protest against what is occurring in schools throughout the city with regard to class size and other problems?

You didn’t cause it, but one of the students sitting in front of you this year with learning disabilities or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have already given up on learning.

NYSSCA is holding its annual conference on Nov. 1-2 in Syracuse. This year's event is titled, School Counselors: Setting the Standard for Student Success.

A free Guidance Expo will be held in Westchester County on Oct. 21. The Expo is literally an exposition of guidance and counseling ideas and activities. Pre-registration is required.

The UFT and the Albert Shanker Institute hosted career and technical education experts from around the country at a two-day conference at UFT headquarters on Oct. 10-11.

UFT members wore pink to school in the days leading up to the Oct. 20 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk to raise awareness about this important health issue.