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Special Education Intervention Teacher (formerly known as IEP teacher)
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The Special Education Intervention Teacher is a centrally funded learning specialist. Learn more about this position and the role these educators play for students with disabilities.
OLR - labor guidance: Program preference
OLR - labor guidance: Program preference
Contract 2023: Teacher programs
See changes to teacher programs for elementary school and special education teachers.
DOE Memo: Frequency, Duration, and Location of Related Services
This memo, dated May 26, 2010, provides updated information regarding the frequency, duration and location of related services. It clarifies that travel time may not be included as part of the direct service time. It also clarifies that related...
Teachers will return in the fall if...
New federal funds, now being held up in Washington, are the only possible way New York City will be able to invest in the protective measures and staff required for schools to safely re-open in September — even on a limited basis.
Chancellor’s Regulation A-501: Promotion Standards
This regulation implements a systemwide policy with clearly defined standards for student promotion for each grade from grades K through 12.
Organizing for the win
More than a hundred 3- and 4-year-olds with disabilities at the Mosaic Pre-K Centers in Queens will now receive the related services they need to thrive, the culmination of a two-year organizing effort by the union and the broader school community.
NYSED guidance: Bilingual and English as a new language services for English language learners who are students with disabilities
NYSED guidance: Bilingual and English as a new language services for English language learners who are students with disabilities
Restrictions on Assignment of Special Education Teachers and Service Providers to Other Duties
Special education teachers and providers for these services must serve each student as mandated and may not be assigned to other duties (like exam scoring or coverage/proctoring for other classes) that would prevent them from doing so, except in...
Professional activities fact sheet (elementary schools)
Contractual guide and list of options for professional activities for elementary school teachers.
UFT memo: Travel time and location of service for related service providers
Travel time may not be included as part of the direct service time for students receiving related services, and students with disabilities who receive instruction in special (self-contained) classes may receive related services in a location outside...
Making the most of parent-teacher conferences
Parent-teacher conferences are held four times a year, twice in the fall and twice in the spring. Ask your parent coordinator when the next conferences will be.
Samuel Berck, math teacher at Rikers Island
District 79 math teacher Samuel Berck instructs incarcerated students at the East River Academy at the Rikers Island jail complex.
High School Admission for Families of Students With Disabilities
Students with disabilities participate in High School Admissions in the same way as their non-disabled peers. All schools are expected to deliver special education supports and services to meet students’ needs. Students in 8th grade whose Committee...
Comptroller's SESIS Audit
Comptroller John Liu's report on the audit of SESIS.
DOE FAQ: Encounter Attendance
Answers to frequently asked questions on the following topics: access to students in the SESIS Service Capture Calendar, recording past service in the Services Calendar, recording session notes, recording group size, recording absences and...
Overworked, Underutilized
How the Department of Education’s Reorganizations of Special Education Turned School Psychologists from Mental Health Professionals into Paper Pushers. A report by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Nov. 2008.
Lead Teacher Assistant Q&A
The Lead Teacher Assistant is a true assistant to a teacher and not be solely driven by the Individualized Education Program (IEP) of a student with disabilities. This Q&A answers some of the most frequently asked questions about the new Lead Teacher...
Hundreds of NYC teachers hold citywide "Grade-In" protest to demand a Fair Contract
UFT educators across the city took part in "Grade-Ins" to fight for more autonomy during the workday and to call out the amounts of irrelevant administrative tasks they are forced to do that don’t serve their students.
Making the most of parent-teacher conferences
Leading with the positive, focusing on a student's specific goals and having parents be assured that an educator has a plan to further their child's needs are among the best ways to have more effective parent-teacher conferences.
Adrianna DeAngelis, special education teacher
Adrianna DeAngelis has taught a pre-K class at Birch Family Services for the past 14 years. She is one of 200 educators and support staff across Birch's four early childhood centers and schools represented by the UFT.