The start of the school year, when the previous year is still fresh in your mind, is a great time to make some “new year’s resolutions” to improve your teaching practice. UFT Teacher Center coach and 10 th-grade social studies teacher Shawn Fisch...

6th-grade teacher Ruth Duran shares tips for educators about how to make summer learning for students feel less like homework by engaging them in activities that tap into their creative sides and activities they genuinely enjoy.

There are great podcasts, many made for educators by educators, that discuss relevant issues, share solutions and foster community. Get some inspiration through your headphones and take a listen to one of the teacher-friendly podcasts provided in...

A cluster teacher at PS 372, The Children’s School, in Brooklyn, shows off the LEGO wall he's built in his classroom to support the educational needs of his District 75 students.

Two Massachusetts families have filed a lawsuit against the creators and publishers of widely used whole-language reading curricula claiming that they engaged in “deceptive and fraudulent” marketing of curricula they knew was ineffective.

This school year, as outside consultants took over most of the training, teachers grew increasingly frustrated with their lack of voice and the lack of support. So we headed to the bargaining table to demand changes. The revised curriculum policy...

The UFT has asked the State Education Department to investigate the city Department of Education for its continued failure to provide mandated special education services to students.

Integrated co-teaching (ICT) classes are taught by two teachers — a general education or content-area teacher and a special education teacher. A co-teaching relationship needs two willing partners who are communicative, collaborative and cooperative...

As part of their fight for a fair contract, educators across the city on March 30 set out to make their heavy workload visible to their school communities and to the city during a citywide grade-in.

In September, the DOE rolled out GAMA, a new online grading, attendance and parent messaging system. The implementation has been a disaster.