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Ulster Teachers' Union representing teachers & school leaders in nursery, primary, secondary, special education across Northern Ireland #UTU

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🎄✨ Membership Plus ~ 12 Days of Christmas Competition – Winner! ✨🎄

🎉 Congratulations to ANDREW EWART! 🎉

Andrew, a UTU member, is one of the 12 Days of Christmas Competition winners and has bagged a fantastic £100 EXSTO Apparel gift card thanks to Membership Plus! 👕🎁
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🎄 CHRISTMAS CLOSURE NOTICE 🎄

Please note that UTU Headquarters will close at 12 noon on Tuesday 23 December 2025 🕛

🗓️We will reopen at 9:00am on Monday 5 January 2026.

🎅🏻✨ Wishing all our members and partners a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎉❤️📚🎄
December 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🎄✨ Merry Christmas from Ulster Teachers’ Union ✨🎄

As the year draws to a close, we would like to wish all our teacher members and our valued partners a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful, refreshing break.

🌟🎅 Thank you for your continued commitment, professionalism and support throughout the year
December 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🎄✨ UTU CHRISTMAS COMPETITION ✨🎄
Calling UTU teacher members! 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫

Get festive with your class and showcase their creativity 🎨🎶

🌟 Fantastic prizes to be won

Let your class shine this Christmas ✨

🔗 Full details in bio
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
📣 The Winter Edition of SHOUT UNION is here! ❄️📘

We’re delighted to share the latest issue, packed with inspiring stories, member voices, school features, and updates shaping education across NI. 👩‍🏫✨

🔗read by clicking the link ➡️https://linktr.ee/UlsterTeachersUnion
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Stephen McCord DGS attended the EI Global Conference on AI, held in Brussels, Belgium, from 4-5 Dec 2025, marking the first global gathering of member organisations to explore the opportunities and challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence in education and research.

#HumanCentredAI #GoPublic
December 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
No algorithm can replace the connection between teacher and student. The ❤️ of education will always be human.
#HumanCentredAI #GoPublic @eduinternational.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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AI should enhance, not undermine, teachers’ autonomy and working conditions. Educators demand clear policies and fair training so AI is a tool for quality education, not control.

#HumanCentredAI #GoPublic
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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🗨️ Do not look away! The fight here is about making sure the teachers have the power, the resources, so that any AI tool supplements, not supplants, the human endeavour of teaching.
- @rweingarten.bsky.social, president of @aft.org

#GoPublic #HumanCentredAI
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🔓 Unlocking voices: Discover how AI is transforming classrooms for students with disabilities.
Read about inspiring stories. ⬇️
#IDPD2025
https://eiie.io/4auGDKd
Keeping humanity at the center: Accessibility and artificial intelligence in education
In a classroom in upstate New York, a special education teacher pulls up a set of Tobii eye-tracking devices, each calibrated to a student’s unique gaze patterns. Around the room, quiet concentration ...
eiie.io
December 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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No algorithm can replace the connection between teacher and student. The heart of education will always be human.

#HumanCentredAI #GoPublic
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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At EI’s Global Conference on AI, @wayne-holmes.bsky.social of @ucl.ac.uk challenges myths about AI and education. What does a human-centred approach look like?

#GoPublic #HumanCentredAI
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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🗨️ AI reforms aren’t linear—they’re contested and political.
- @Kyungmee_Lee of @SeoulNatlUni unpacks the realities behind billion-dollar EdTech projects and their impact on classrooms.

#HumanCentredAI #GoPublic
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
How do we protect teacher autonomy, guarantee equity, safeguard privacy, and keep education public when Artificial Intelligence enters our schools? Education unions from around the world are coming together to build the #FutureWeNeed.
#HumanCentredAI #GoPublic

@eduinternational.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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📅 Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities!

We call for increased investment in education, education support personnel and the teaching profession to recruit and retain educators essential for achieving inclusive education for all.

#IDPD2025 #GoPublic
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Joint Union Health & Safety Rep Training 🦺💪

A productive day in Belfast as UTU, INTO & NEU came together for joint training — strengthening our shared commitment to safe, supported schools. 💙

#StrongerTogether #UnionTraining #HealthAndSafety
October 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
📅 World Arthritis Day | 12 October

Today we stand in solidarity with all teachers, school staff, and pupils living with arthritis. 💙

Arthritis can affect people of all ages — including colleagues in our classrooms and the children we teach.
October 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This afternoon, the Ulster Teachers' Union Central Executive Committee joined with our colleagues from Irish National Teachers' Organisation NI Northern Committee and NEU Northern Ireland officers & committee members for a Joint Meeting —
October 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
💚 World Mental Health Day | 10 October

Mental health isn’t just one part of our lives — it’s every part.

It’s a hard day’s work in the classroom, a chat in the staffroom, a quiet evening at home, or a moment spent supporting a pupil in need.
October 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
💪📚 Joint Union School Representative Training 🤝✨

A fantastic start to our first School Representative Training Day of the academic year — delivered in partnership with our Irish National Teachers' Organisation NI and NEU Northern Ireland colleagues! 🙌
October 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🎉📚 UTU Celebrates World Teachers’ Day! 📚🎉

This Sunday, 5th October 2025, we join with teachers around the world to celebrate the incredible work, dedication, and passion that educators bring to their classrooms every day. 🍎✨

#WorldTeachersDay #UTU #ProudToTeach #UlsterTeachersUnion
October 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
👥 JOINT UNION REPS TRAINING 👥

📌 Health & Safety in School

🗓 Day 1: Role of the Rep – Focusing on Health, Safety, and Wellbeing
📍 Belfast
🕤 Wednesday 15th October | 9:30am – 3:30pm

✊ Working Together for Teachers and Principals ✊

Register at 🔗 ti.to/jointunion/h...
September 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🌟 IN-PERSON PRE-RETIREMENT SEMINAR 🌟

📝 Learn valuable insights and get an in-depth look at the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

📅 Thur 16th October
🕓 4.00pm – 5.30pm
📍 Armagh City Hotel

Hosted in partnership with Platinum Financial Planning Ltd 💼✨

#RetirementPlanning #Teachers
Register at 🔗 in bio
September 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🎉 Great day at the joint INTO, NEU & UTU recruitment @ Ulster Uni Coleraine! 🙌
Amazing to meet so many passionate future teachers 🧑‍🏫👩‍🏫
Wishing you every success this year – UTU is here to support you 💪💙

#FutureTeachers #UnionStrong
September 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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We welcome today's clear statement from Belfast City of Sanctuary who have been building the Schools of Sanctuary initiative active in over 72 schools in NI.

Such clarity can be used by @Ed_Authority
& @education-ni.gov.uk

Pic: Jacquie White & Susan Neil, ETUG

www.ictuni.org/news/educati...
August 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM