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Provider Health & Wellness FAQs

The UFT has compiled the following questions and answers to assist family child care providers with details on our unique Provider Wellness program.

Lesson Study Guide

Lesson Study is a standards-based collaborative process used to improve instruction. One of the goals of this instructional planning model is to identify academic achievement gaps and students’ challenges. Teachers will then examine and refine...

Contract 2023: Time, the workday and remote work

Educators have more autonomy to decide when and how to do their out-of-classroom work. Read more details.

Nurses charge NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn puts patients at risk by ignoring mandated staff/patient ratios

On hundreds of occasions in the last 18 months, patients at NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn have been put at risk by the understaffing of nurses and aides, including in the hospital’s Intensive and Critical Care units. The Federation of Nurses/UFT...

Strategies to help new immigrant students

The influx of students from new-immigrant families these past few years has presented many challenges for New York City public school educators. Here are some proven strategies to support them.

The rules regarding teacher evaluations

The following Q&A answers some of the most frequently asked questions about the teacher evaluation system for the 2024-25 school year.

Health & Safety for the Paraprofessional

A useful guide to help paraprofessionals in the New York City public school system keep themselves healthy and safe.

Heads of Bureau Circular #11, 1973-1974: Maternity and Child Care Leaves

Regulations governing leaves of absence for maternity and/or child care for administrative (non-pedagogical) staff. Page 1 of this document is Heads of Bureau Circular #15, 1975-1976, which amends a section of Circular #11.

How educators are helping

School communities have pulled together to care for and educate tens of thousands of newcomer students, many of whom have arrived in New York City with little more than the clothes on their backs. The UFT hosted a listening session on Oct. 25 to...

Net-zero energy

Students learn how to combat climate change at eco-friendly, solar energy-powered school on Staten Island that has become a model for the Carbon Free and Healthy Schools campaign.

Obtaining required CTLE credits

The New York State Board of Regents requires certain teachers and paraprofessionals to collect and track professional learning credits called CTLE hours to maintain their state certifications. The following Q&A will help you learn more about these...

Finding common cause: The early years

The irony is stunning. As the UFT prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Department of Education has announced its plans to close the school where the first stirrings of teacher unionism began here almost a century ago.

Lead

Lead hazards in paint and water.

UFT.org Privacy Statement

The United Federation of Teachers and our affiliates (”UFT” or “Union”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes:

Article Nine — Education Reform

A. School-Based Management/Shared Decision-Making (SBM/SDM) The Union and the Board agree that SBM/SDM is a process in which all members of the school community collaborate in identifying issues, defining goals, formulating policy and implementing...

Article Twelve — Excessing and Layoff

A. Excessing Rules - Appointed Secretaries Before applying the Rules for involuntary excessing, the senior school secretary within license who volunteers will be excessed from the school to a vacancy within the same district or in the case of high...

Article Eleven — Excessing and Layoff

A. Excessing Rules-Appointed Psychologists and Social Workers Before applying the Rules for involuntary excessing, the senior social worker or psychologist (as applicable) who volunteers will be excessed to a vacancy within the same superintendency...

Class struggles: The UFT story, part 7

Roger Parente still gets up early. Only these days it’s to get in a game of tennis before the stifling mid-day heat of the Southern California desert sets in. Approaching 70, Parente is surprised how well a decade of retirement has agreed with him...

Testimony regarding the proposed FY23 Executive Budget

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New York State Senate & Assembly Committees on Finance, Ways & Means and Education regarding the proposed FY23 Executive Budget.

New York Institute of Technology

Learn more about opportunties through NYIT.

Class struggles: The UFT story, part 1

The UFT turns 36 this year [1996]. As unions go, that makes us a fairly new kid on the block. But the reality is that our labor roots stretch back to 1916 and that most of our founding mothers and fathers have either retired or passed on. Even those...

A Parent’s Guide to Special Education in New York State for Preschool and School-Age Students with Disabilities

A Parent’s Guide to Special Education in New York State for Preschool and School-Age Students with Disabilities

Guidance from the DOE on March parent-teacher conferences

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza issued guidance from the DOE to schools about March parent-teacher conferences.

Teacher Union Day Honorees

Teacher Union Day offers an opportunity to celebrate our union's recent accomplishments while remembering the brave educators who put everything on the line in the 1960 strike that forged this union. Congratulations to this year's honorees!

Article Eleven — Retention, Excessing and Layoff

A. Retention of Regular Substitutes A regular substitute who, upon completion of one year of service in a school, has been notified in writing by the principal that he/she will be reassigned in that school for the following school year shall be...

Article Eleven — Excessing and Layoff

A. Excessing Rules — Appointed Counselors Before applying the Rules for involuntary excessing, the senior counselor within license who volunteers will be excessed from the school or program to a vacancy within the same district or, in the case of...

United Federation of Teachers: 50 Years book

A PDF version of the limited edition book produced for the UFT's 50th anniversary in 2010. [This image-heavy file is relatively large (21 MB).]

High School Students' Attitudes Toward Animals

This unit will describe a project undertaken by Rhonda Donn, when she was a high school senior at Townsend Harris High School in Queens, New York, in 1990. It deals with an attitudinal scale she developed concerning high school students' attitudes...

Si Beagle registration FAQ

Read our FAQ to answer questions about registering for upcoming courses, seminars and trips through the Si Beagle Learning Centers program.