NYC budget director blames cafeteria menu cuts on too many kids eating
New York City slashed popular items like chicken tenders, dumplings, and cookies from cafeteria menus in February because too many kids were eating, a city official said Monday. Jacques Jiha, director of the Office of Management and Budget, offered the surprising explanation at a City Council budget hearing in response to questions from Education Committee […]
Summer Rising will face reduced hours this year. Here’s what NYC families should know.
Applications for New York City’s free summer programming opened Monday to all children in kindergarten through eighth grade. But in the wake of budget cuts ordered by Mayor Eric Adams, middle schoolers will face significantly fewer hours of enrichment programming this summer. Launched in 2021 with federal pandemic relief funding, the Summer Rising program was […]
The Youth Mental Health Crisis Needs Our Attention
The headlines are difficult to ignore these days. One cannot help but feel a bit of anxiety when consuming the state of our affairs in the news — war, climate, and the economy. So you may turn to social media instead for an escape? Perhaps consuming manicured images or videos of travel, food, and design […]
Digital Detox: Why Schools Are Swapping Laptops for Paper
Every teacher reading this has an opinion on the subject: Do students learn better from screens or from traditional, physical paper? While we know cell phones are not great for kids, some schools are now starting to question this 1-1 technology approach schools have submitted grants for and worked so hard to obtain for their students since the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Research Based Teaching Strategies for Special Education Students Presented by Glen Eschbach, on behalf of CITE
Are you an educator interested in improving and enhancing your Instructional Strategy Toolbox? Are you running out of ideas as to how to find the “key” to unlock the brilliance of your students? This workshop will provide participants an opportunity to learn evidenced based instructional strategies that have been proven to improve student learning outcomes […]
The list is out: See which curriculum is dominating NYC’s reading mandate
New York City kicked off its new literacy curriculum mandate this year, requiring elementary schools in nearly half of its districts to choose among three curriculums. One pick dominated: Into Reading, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Teachers wondered whether the same curriculum — which has won mixed reviews from educators — would continue to gain traction, […]
As NYC overhauls literacy approach, one public school gets phonics help from nearby private school
Clasping a deck of pale yellow flash cards, Sloan Shapiro delivered a phonics lesson she’s taught countless times at her Manhattan private school for children with reading challenges. “Q — U — Queen — Kwuh,” Shapiro chanted, pointing at the letters “Qu” printed on a card above a cartoon drawing of a queen. A chorus […]
This proposed NYC middle school will be ‘genderful.’ Here’s what that means.
For the past 10 years, I’ve been teaching math to middle school kids in New York City. My classes are filled with children, ages 10-14, concerned with their friends, their responsibilities, phones, and, if I’m lucky, pre-algebra. In that way, these students are the same as they were a decade ago. But in so many […]
