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Centers of attention
When Cara Jacofsky began her teaching career 23 years ago, she was determined to become the best teacher she could be for her students, so she connected with the UFT Teacher Center. “The first few years of my teaching career, they would plan lessons...
Article Seventeen — Retention, Excessing and Layoff
Retention of Assignment — Regular Substitutes back to top A regular substitute who, upon completion of one year of service in a school, has been notified in writing by the principal that he/she will be reassigned in that school for the following...
Article Eighteen — Transfers and Staffing
The Board and the Union recognize the need to maintain both staff stability and an equitable balance of experienced and inexperienced teachers in the schools. To meet this need, and to provide opportunities within this framework for teachers to...
Teachers and the observation process
The UFT seized the opportunity presented by the 2018 contract negotiations with the city Department of Education to revise the teacher evaluation system to focus on quality of observations rather than quantity and to incorporate meaningful...
Joint Intentions and Commitments
Enhanced student achievement, based upon high standards and expectations, must be the driving force behind every activity of New York City public schools. To accomplish this, we must reinvent schools so that decision-making is shared by those closest...
Article Ten — Safety and Health
A. Assistance in Assault Cases The principal shall report as soon as possible but within 24 hours to the Office of Legal Services, to the Chief Executive of School Safety and Planning and to the Victim Support Program that an assault upon a school...
Article Eight — Safety and Health
A. Assistance in Assault Cases The principal shall report as soon as possible but within 24 hours to the Office of Legal Services and to the Chief Executive of School Safety and Planning and to the Victim Support Program that an assault upon an...
Courage in ‘a moment of great danger’
The courage and hard work of members during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was recognized on Nov. 7 at the UFT's annual Teacher Union Day celebration, held in Shanker Hall at UFT headquarters in Manhattan and online via Zoom.
No longer alone
A pre-K teacher and the UFT chapter leader at PS 150 in Queens, Jeanine Bradley has found her voice as an advocate, both in the community and at her school, for people with Crohn’s and for her fellow educators. And she makes sure her students, no...
Ready for remote
As COVID-19 ravaged New York City and forced schools to shut down, Brian Nagy enjoyed a unique position. He was ready for remote.