“Our union was appalled by the content in a recent DOE newsletter. The content was offensive to the Jewish community and came on top of a series of similar egregious communications under the DOE ...

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, flanked by educators and union leaders, called on the city Department of Education to reimburse employees on time for tuition and mileage costs ...

Would you like to build greater emotional resilience and improve your communication under pressure? In this episode of the Brewing Wellness podcast, Lexi Mulee, a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) ...

Annual raises of 3%, 3%, 3%, 3.25% and 3.5% percent. Ratification bonus of $3,000 Annual bonuses of $400 on May 16, 2024; $700 by May 5, 2025; $1,000 on May 1, 2026; and $1,035 on May 1, 2027. This ...

What Mental Health Services are available through Provider Wellness? Through Provider Wellness, all Providers have free, 24/7 access to the UFT's confidential helpline – by phone or by text – provided ...

Eligible teachers with 14 years of service can apply for a one-year Educational Research Project sabbatical. The research project has to be in the field of education and job-related. The project must ...

After graduating from Queens Technical HS in 2015, UFT Career and Technical Education Award winner Mohammed Hossain spent two years in college pursuing his passion — electrical engineering. But rather ...

At the beginning of the year, I tape this chart to my students’ tables and teach them to use the hand signals whenever we’re in ‘discussion mode.’ Students who are more timid can contribute without ...

Forms of communication come and go, but public speaking has remained popular from ancient times through today. People tune into award shows primarily to watch the acceptance speeches. A speech can ...

With more than 300 unions in New York City, several of them are bound to be confronting problems at any given moment. At the same time, there are plenty of UFT retirees who have the time and the ...

The 11th-grader, a recent immigrant from Central America living in a city shelter, arrived some two hours late for the start of classes at John Adams HS in Ozone Park, Queens. He had his head down on ...

Diffit for Teachers is an AI-powered software that is making my classroom fundamentally more inclusive. Teachers can make a free account. Text in the curriculum has usually been written to reach the ...