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Taking stock in students’ skills

NY Teacher Article Feature Stories
Steven Leaderman, a teacher at P370, a District 75 program in Coney Island, has created an innovative vocational program that has his students sort and deliver school supplies. The program helps the students develop key vocational and life skills...

UFT’s large and diverse ‘family’

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Union leaders and representatives from the union’s private, nonprofit and Department of Education functional chapters gathered at union headquarters on Jan. 16 to kick off a new union initiative intended to showcase and amplify the work of members in...

Ways to build SEL skills in the classroom

NY Teacher Article Teaching
As a school counselor, I recommend that classroom teachers do these four things to support students in their social-emotional growth. 


A safe Nest for autistic students

NY Teacher Article Feature Stories
A team of teachers, speech therapists, occupational therapists and other related service providers create an environment where students with autism and general education students can learn in their 5th-grade Nest classroom at PS 682 in Brooklyn.


Tools to aid speaking and listening

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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 media-rich resources provide ways to listen to language...

Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration

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Save the date for the Speech Improvement Chapter's Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration. Registration will be available shortly. 

Speech Improvement Chapter Year-End Celebration

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Save the date for the 2025 Speech Improvement Chapter's end-of-year celebration. Registration will be available shortly. 

Speech Improvement Chapter meeting

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Speech Improvement Chapter members are invited to register for a hybrid chapter meeting. Attendees will be updated on issues of importance to the chapter as well as the union as a whole.

Organizing for the win

NY Teacher Article Feature Stories
More than a hundred 3- and 4-year-olds with disabilities at the Mosaic Pre-K Centers in Queens will now receive the related services they need to thrive, the culmination of a two-year organizing effort by the union and the broader school community.


Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration 2024

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At the 18th annual Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration on May 30 at Shanker Hall, members of the UFT’s Speech Improvement Chapter and their students were honored for exceptional projects completed in speech therapy this year. The 32 projects displayed the wide variety of therapies that speech language teachers provide.