New York TeacherApril 11, 2024
The mayor and the DOE have been reluctant to implement the state class size law. UFT members, standing together with parents, community members and students, will make sure this historic opportunity to make transformational change is not lost.
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Latest News
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‘Follow the law’
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A powerful Lobby Day
About 900 educators, along with 100 public school parents, made the three-hour trek by bus to Albany for UFT Lobby Day on March 11 to urge lawmakers to fix Tier 6 of the pension system, overhaul mayoral control of city schools and increase state foundation aid. That same week, thousands more UFT members sent emails urging their state representatives to support the union’s lobbying priorities as part of the UFT’s first-ever Virtual Lobby Day.
Member Spotlight
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Kudos to Amanda Dutton, PS 134, Manhattan
Amanda Dutton, the chapter leader at PS 134 in Manhattan, has stood up again and again for students with disabilities and the UFT members who work with those students at her school.
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Monique Scrubb, adult education teacher
Around the UFT
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Paraprofessionals Festival & Awards Luncheon
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2024 CTE Awards
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HERstory celebration
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School Counselors Conference
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Social Workers Appreciation Day
Your Rights and Benefits
Know Your Benefits
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Dental care
Know Your Rights
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School-based options
Your Well-being
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Suicide prevention
You Should Know
Grants, Awards & Freebies
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Grants, Awards & Freebies
See our list of current opportunities for educators to receive funds and recognition for their hard work and dedication.
For Your Information
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Switching schools
Q&A on the Issues
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Voting in your chapter elections
Secure Your Future
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Your TDA options at retirement
Opinions
VPerspective
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Fighting to put patients before profits
Editorials
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Start strong
Editorials
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Past-due payments
Editorial Cartoons
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Teaching Resources
Learning Curve
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Staying in step with your teaching partner
Integrated co-teaching (ICT) classes are taught by two teachers — a general education or content-area teacher and a special education teacher. A co-teaching relationship needs two willing partners who are communicative, collaborative and cooperative to be successful.
Linking to Learning
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Using simulations in your class
Teacher to Teacher
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Let students take the wheel sometimes
Building Your Career
Inside My Classroom
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Put-ups and put-downs
New Teacher Articles
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Preparing for tenure
New Teacher Profiles
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With a song in his heart
Retired Teachers News
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Get ready, Get set, VOTE!
With the RTC leadership election coming up, I have asked Election Committee Chair Nina Tribble to write this month’ s column.
— Tom Murphy
GET READY: It’s time again for Retired Teachers Chapter elections. Every three years, RTC members vote to elect who they want to lead their chapter.
When the RTC elections took place three years ago, we were in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and had to make some modifications in light of pandemic restrictions. Today, we are in a better place.
The RTC bipartisan election committee — made up of Doreen Crinigan, Robert Greenberg, John Soldini and me — is overseeing this year’s election and using the standard procedures and processes used prior to the pandemic.
Our election committee was empowered to develop and publicize the rules of the election. We have completed that initial step. Our committee is overseeing a process that we believe is simple, straightforward and transparent in order to…
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A helping hand is just a phone call away
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