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UFT Teacher Center played vital role

The UFT Teacher Center, a comprehensive school-based professional development program, provides vital technology assistance and ongoing support to educators on both technology and content issues.

Remote control

As teachers navigate the world of remote classrooms, they get a boost from tech-savvy colleagues.

Painting the bigger picture

Janet Lombardi and her son, Zach, are both Staten Island teachers, who share their passion for activism through art with their elementary school students.

A room for nursing moms

IS 61 now has a “calm, quiet and clean” lactation room thanks to the efforts of Hearing Education Services Chapter Leader Raquel Sepulveda and the school's principal and parent coordinator.

Keep calm and teach on

The Bronx Collaborative Schools Plan is helping Kingsbridge International HS in the Bronx, one of 50 schools that joined the DOE-UFT initiative’s original cohort last year, focus and improve on the school community’s social-emotional learning.

Noteworthy graduate: Dr. Sara Guevara, family medicine physician

Dr. Sara Guevara built on the mentoring and support she received in Brooklyn public schools to become a family medicine physician who is working in underserved communities in New York City.