Want to be a skilled, successful teacher? Of course. Who doesn’t?But how do you get there: Is perfecting lessons late into the night? Keeping more binders, entering more data, even if you are exhausted and sick by December? If all your colleagues...

Funding for field trips and grants for outstanding STEM educators and inspirational teachers are among the offerings.

There is a dynamic among new retirees — after they hang up their school keys — of staying in touch with their work colleagues and friends and that is a good thing.

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the American Federation of Teachers’ Albert Shanker Institute published lesson plans and materials that K–12 teachers can use in their classrooms.

The UFT has lost another of its founding members with the passing of Roger Parente who died in August at the age of 86.

Because research shows that students’academic success is based on a combination of academic skills, good health and physical and mental fitness, the Move-to-Improve program provides teachers with the tools to integrate grade-level academic concepts...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew paid a visit to the Stapleton section of Staten Island on the second day of school to meet educators at PS 78/PS 14, one of the UFT’s 10 new Community Learning Schools this year.

Educators put their heads together to identify the early stages of problem behavior in children with autism and design strategies to keep the problem from escalating at one of the many Autism Spectrum Disorder Nest program workshops kicking off the...

The teacher evaluation system evaluates teachers as: Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, Ineffective, Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory. A probationary teacher who receives two “Ineffective” ratings in a row will be presumed to be incompetent...