Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill that will allow UFT members who are enrolled in the Board of Education Retirement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paraprofessionals play an instrumental role in schools as part of a team providing educational and support services to children. The teacher is the team leader and has sole responsibility for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are moving outside the New York metropolitan areas, it is essential that you update your personal information (mailing address, phone number and email address) with the UFT Membership ...

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 ...

UFT Welfare Fund-eligible members now have access to more than three times as many dentists through the UFT Welfare Fund’s Scheduled Benefit Plan, which is its most popular dental plan. “The UFT ...

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 ...