The chapter leader at Staten Island Tech spearheaded the development of a programming school-based option (SBO) for this school year that addressed the needs of the school community at his specialized high school.

There will be one or two periods of time during the school year, based on a school's Measures of Student Learning selections, that will be designated as " MOSL windows" for the entire school district by the Department of Education. These periods will...

The Chapter Leader and the Principal consult on the activities, number of positions, qualifications, and duties and responsibilities for each activity. Teachers should be given a preference sheet with all of that information listed, and they get to...

You are entitled to a duty-free lunch period. This was a strike issue in the 1960s. Duty-free means just that. It’s free of any and all duty assignments. If you teach in an elementary school, you must have a daily 50-minute duty-free lunch period. In...

Unless modified through a School Based Option (SBO) pursuant to Article 8B of the Teachers' CBA, UFT-represented employees have a 6 hour, 20 minute workday with 155 minutes of extended time configured in different ways depending on the school. School...

A new three-year pilot workday for teachers and paraprofessionals will be launched for the 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years under the 2023 DOE-UFT contract. Both the DOE and the UFT must agree to extend it each year after that or the...

Homerooms have faded from most high schools but are still popular in many junior high schools. These periods are generally used to establish the tone for the school day. During this time, teachers do administrative tasks, such as taking attendance...

If you have a professional period in your teaching program, your principal will give you a preference sheet listing the appropriate menu (this is the same preference sheet for choosing your program). You must prioritize three of the activities and...

Most secondary school teachers and elementary teachers in eight-period schools are programmed for a professional period for which they are required to select a professional activity and to work on it. You select your activity from a menu appropriate...

With certain explicit exceptions, administrative assignments are prohibited unless the school chapter votes to create them through an approved school-based option [ see SBO ]. The exceptions are cafeteria duty, yard duty, hall patrol, AM/PM bus duty...