I was a high school representative on the United Federation of Teachers Executive Board from January 2009 to June 2019, just over 10 years. The first resolution that I wrote, that passed, was “...
This resolution was presented at the UFT Executive Board, and tabled for revisions. I wrote about it last week. Find below the actual text. The “field supervisors” don’t know the teacher, ...
https://jd2718.org/2016/04/26/resolution-for-appropriate-supervision/
If you were going to rate a restaurant, but you were in a far away land and didn’t know the culture, the cuisine, the expectations of the customers, the habits, the menu… you could not produc...
https://jd2718.org/2016/04/18/field-supervisors-are-the-wrong-administrators-to-observe-teachers/
Not exactly, but something like it. Because of “Turnaround” – adopted in a 2010 Weingarten/reform contract – there is a group of “displaced teachers” every year – who will have a jo...
Probably the contract will be ratified. Across the city, teachers, while not enthusiastic about the money or the language, are relieved to be getting something. Now, if it were just the Bronx hig...
https://jd2718.org/2014/05/24/if-the-contract-is-not-ratified/
by Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher, JFK HS, and former Bronx High School UFT District Rep For the greater part of the 44 years that I have been a member of the UFT teachers truly believed t...
For readers arriving from Gotham Schools – no, it was not canceled; I was planning to apply this coming fall. And yes, I supported the agreement. I may be the only teacher in NYC who is hurt by...
https://jd2718.org/2011/06/25/funny-thing-about-the-agreement-to-prevent-layoffs/
The MSM loves when teachers attack teachers unions and other teachers … and I hate it. The Daily News ran an anti-union opinion piece by a teacher (Matt Polazzo) a week and a half ago. (Maintai...
One of the best things this blog has done is to promote a “Do Not Apply” list of schools, mostly Bronx high schools, in NYC. The list started last June, as a useful piece of information for n...
https://jd2718.org/2009/07/07/can-we-still-say-do-not-apply/
At last Monday’s Executive Board meeting a question and follow-up about the UFT’s age discrimination revealed: the suit was withdrawn, without prejudice, when the ATR side agreement was reach...
https://jd2718.org/2009/04/13/no-current-uft-age-discrimation-suit/
The details have changed. The need to show good numbers remains. We have a victory, and need to press the point. Please come. Please bring people with you. And if you cannot come, please recruit ...
I’ve read the document, but only discussed with a couple of people. And it’s hard blogging without a computer. Quick thoughts: The RTRs (Teaching Fellows who never had a job and are threatene...
Right now, the most vulnerable members of the United Federation of Teachers are ATRs and RTRs. ATR (Attendance Teacher Reserve) are mainly teachers whose schools closed and were not picked up by ...
The United Federation of Teachers (New York teachers union) Executive Board voted tonight in support of a motion brought by President Randi Weingarten to hold a rally in support of ATRs on Novemb...
There were 1600 Teaching Fellows hired in New York City this year. That number was too high. There were teachers already in the system, but who weren’t teaching. These Attendance Teachers in Re...
https://jd2718.org/2008/10/20/teaching-fellows-late-october-notes/