AFT President Randi Weingarten joined American Federation of Professional Educators of North Carolina President Joanna Loftis ...

How does the mind work—and especially how does it learn? Teachers’ instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut ...

In rural, high-poverty communities across upstate New York, our students face growing mental health needs. Rates of anxiety, depression, trauma exposure, and even suicidality continue to rise. Yet, ...

For exemplifying what it means to be a great union member, a school bus assistant and AFT member in West Virginia has placed ...

Inside building 14 at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center—a wing dedicated to mental health and substance use—Nathan Hultstrom spends his shifts ensuring that he and his fellow peer recovery specialists ...

Since the earliest days of the pandemic, the AFT has advocated for safe in-person schooling with layered mitigation measures. We invested in an aggressive back-to-school campaign across the country, ...

Our Mission The AFT is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their ...

A recent controversy in the reading world is whether findings from reading research, sometimes referred to contemporaneously as the “science of reading,” apply to students who are not proficient in ...

I have never looked forward to our TEACH conference as much as I have this year. That’s because of you—the educators in this room and the educators of this nation. It’s been a tough year; I don’t know ...

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