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Matt Zalaznick

Matt Zalaznick is a life-long journalist. Prior to writing for District Administration he worked in daily news all over the country, from the NYC suburbs to the Rocky Mountains, Silicon Valley and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He's also in a band.
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Job seekers want to be educators—outside K12, report warns

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"Teaching talent exists—it just tends to seek more autonomy, greater flexibility, and higher pay than the typical school provides," warns a report from a leading employment website.

How to build schools: Help your community tell its story

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"We worked on creating the story with the people of the community—it’s their story. Community members wrote their own story of what they wanted their community to look like for their children," Superintendent Jennifer Lowery says.

Black students are most common targets as school hate crimes double

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Schools trailed only homes and roads as the most common locations for reported hate crimes over a five-year period that includes the pandemic, according to an FBI study that also looked at the ethnicity and religion of the victims.

How one fearless superintendent is elevating education outside her district

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Superintendent Kimberly Rizzo Saunders is not sitting idly by while New Hampshire remains at the bottom of the list for per-pupil funding. 

In-demand careers: Gender bias in K12 schools may be perpetuating a lack of exposure for students

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Students have the natural talent to fill the nation’s most in-demand careers in healthcare, manufacturing, technology and finance. Education leaders may, however, be concerned that not enough students are being exposed to these fields, according to YouScience's 2024 State of the Future U.S. Workforce report.

‘A good life for every student’: 2 new lessons schools are learning

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"Happiness, fulfillment and stability" were the words students and their families used to described their ideal K12 outcomes to education reform researchers.

Arby’s Foundation pays off student lunch debt for 4 metro Atlanta school districts

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The $200,000 payments are part of the charitable organization’s $1 million effort to wipe out lunch debt at more than 750 schools nationwide. The national public school meal debt is $262 million a year.

AI has big potential but we need more help, leaders say

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Most superintendents and other administrators share two views of generative AI: the technology will improve instruction and educators need more guidance in adopting it, a new survey has found.

More than a dozen districts just selected new superintendents

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The Boise School District in Idaho has promoted Deputy Superintendent Lisa Roberts to serve as the district's first female leader. District elsewhere are also giving administrators their first shots at the superintendency.

In one district where teachers practice yoga, student behavior is better

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"It’s very hard for teachers or any human being to be responsible for the social-emotional health and wellbeing of another person without first attending to themselves," says Barbara Malkas, Massachusetts' 2024 Superintendent of the Year and a certified yoga instructor.

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