Do the short winter days leave you feeling down? Join Dr. Gail Brightwell, a licensed school psychologist with the Positive Learning Collaborative, to learn about the impact of seasonal affective ...
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 ...
The UFT is holding elections for president and other officers, executive board members and convention delegates in 2025.
UFT volunteers transformed Shanker Hall at union headquarters into a wonderland of candy-cane balloons, games and crafts for ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Educators know that collaboration among colleagues is vital to support and serve our students. We each bring our own experiences, teaching styles and strategies to the table. Incorporating strategies ...
More than 50,000 graduate students and other student workers on 51 university campuses nationwide have formed unions since 2022, according to the National Labor Relations Board. The organizing ...
Tikkun olam — Hebrew for “repairing the world” — was the theme for the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee Awards dinner for a second straight year. The event, which was held at Russo’s on the Bay in Queens ...
Eighth-graders in the United States lost ground on digital literacy between 2018 and 2023, according to the International Computer and Information Literacy Study, which assesses preparedness for the ...
The union’s Supplemental Health Insurance Program’s 2025 premium notices will be sent in early January to retirees who have not elected to pay premiums via automatic pension deduction. Retirees who ...
For social worker Chanisse Wade, creating a “culture of celebration” is critical to bolstering students’ social and emotional well-being. Highlighting the small wins — like noticing when a student ...