Creativity and collaboration are alive and well at Hyde Park's Roosevelt K-8 school, where over 400 students and a committed staff are thriving and learning each day. Students make connections across grade levels, and all classes are fully inclusive. Read more about the Roosevelt, featured in this month's "We're Learning Here."

Teachers may be working without a contract for over a year, but through it all they and their students are focused on doing their job: teaching and learning and creating caring communities. Featured this month in "We're Learning Here," is Excel High School.

On Friday, November 18, thousands of BTU members around the city came to school that morning with an added purpose: to tell the school district that it's time to settle contract negotiations. View a video of thousands of BTU members as they picketed at their schools and community sites demanding that the school district 'Talk to Teachers.'

AFT President Randi Weingarten held a press conference with the BTU to criticize Supt. Johnson and the Boston school department for its uncompromising negotiating position against offering BTU members any compensation for working an extended day.

Watch the video of the press conference here.

There are a lot of reasons why we became educators: to inspire; to motivate;  to build confidence; to change the world.

Today there is a battle over the future of public education and the future of the teaching profession.

Boston attracts the best of our profession. View a new video about what's at stake.