About 125 participants were offered a wide range of workshops at the Spring New York City Association of Foreign Language Teachers/UFT Professional Development Workshops held at UFT headquarters on April 6.

Educators, parents and community partners from the six pilot schools in the Community Learning Schools Initiative came together on April 6 to share lessons learned and ideas for building on the program. UFT President Michael Mulgrew kicked off the session, and Vice President Karen Alford and facilitators from the UFT Teacher Center led the event.

Unlike what many assume, Irish culture is not all about great writers — great dead writers, at that — remarked Noel Kilkenny, the consul general of Ireland in New York and a guest speaker at the UFT Irish-American Heritage Celebration on April 4.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with the staff of Chinatown’s PS/IS 126 for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on, among other topics, the state budget, the importance of the union’s political work, the status of contract negotiations, special education reform, teacher evaluations and the expected drop in state test scores this year.

Quick: Who was the last Byzantine emperor? Which poet wrote the ode that became the Greek national anthem? Which famous French artist painted the “Massacre of Chios”? For people answering Constantine XI, Dionysios Solomos and Eugene Delacroix in that order, chances are good that they attended the Greek Independence Day Celebration at UFT headquarters on March 21, where a quiz was part of the fun.

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The UFT joins with the National Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (NLCLAA) with all its affiliates, allies, and civil society organizations to repudiate all efforts to the privatization of Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, and the...

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Nearly 500 educators came to UFT headquarters in Manhattan on Saturday, March 16 to learn new strategies and techniques to improve their teaching at the 6th Annual Early Childhood Education Conference. The theme of the conference was “Today We Shape Tomorrow.”

UFT President Michael Mulgrew covered the big issues facing the union, including contract negotiations, teacher evaluation, the SESIS arbitration and the upcoming mayoral election at a Meet the President gathering on March 13 in East Harlem.