OT/PTs are permitted to take three days of virtual professional development (live webinars) remotely per school year. A fourth virtual professional development day (live webinar) can be taken remotely ...

Monday, Dec. 23, will now be a school holiday, thanks to union advocacy, parental support and a student petition backed by UFT members from across the city. UFT President Michael Mulgrew, New York ...

School related professionals play an essential role in supporting the varied needs of students. This issue of the New York Teacher is dedicated to these UFT members. They number more than 46,000 in ...

UFT volunteers transformed Shanker Hall at union headquarters into a wonderland of candy-cane balloons, games and crafts for ...

The UFT is holding elections for president and other officers, executive board members and convention delegates in 2025.

After the other daily tasks — checking water, testing pH level and adding nutrients — were finished in the hydroponics lab at P141 @ IS 71 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, teacher Philip Gagnon invited a ...

When you send out a survey and 81% of all schools in the city respond, it is a strong indication that it is a topic that people feel passionately about. That is what happened when we asked our chapter ...

There are excellent online audio and visual resources that speech improvement teachers and classroom teachers alike can use to help students develop their listening and speaking skills. These ...

A 5th-grade class at PS 682 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn is learning about earthquakes. They start by watching a video, with captions on, about an earthquake in Japan. One student walks to the front of ...

“Beautiful! Keep going!” Lance Schatzman told a 5-year-old painting a pinwheel at the UFT’s Thanksgiving Luncheon for children living in temporary housing on Nov. 23. Schatzman, a 3-K teacher at PS ...

Shortly after Michael Mulgrew became president of the UFT in the summer of 2009, the new Retired Teachers Chapter leader, Tom Murphy, reached out to him with a proposal. “Tom said the retiree chapter ...