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Matt Zalaznick

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Matt Zalaznick is the managing editor of District Administration, covering K-12 public school leadership, teaching and learning, student achievement, education technology, and federal education policy. A journalist since 1996, Zalaznick has reported on politics, law enforcement, and breaking news for newspapers and websites across the U.S. Virgin Islands, the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado, and the New York City suburbs. He holds a B.A. in English from Tufts University.
College & Career Readiness

How to develop students who are creators, not consumers

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Teachers should create opportunities for productive struggle where students learn to work independently and manage their time.
College & Career Readiness

Why you should stress COVID-era skills in CTE programs

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To eventually start their own companies, students need to learn about every facet of the work environment. Educators can facilitate this with makerspaces, project- and placed-based learning programs, and a strong focus on STEAM.
College & Career Readiness

How CTE develops on-the-job learners

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Businesses are looking to K-12 education to provide workers who can be trained and retrained as their industries change.
Curriculum & Instruction

How a district created a virtual learning academy during COVID

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Darlington County School District in rural South Carolina saw an overwhelming response when educators there created a virtual academy to enhance online learning this school year. 
Admin & Management

Why solving real-world problems is key to online learning

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Solving real-world problems in their communities will keep students engaged and working independently as they shift between in-person and online learning.
Admin & Management

3 major steps to building equity in schools

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Superintendents working to build equity in the era of COVID and online learning are revising curriculum, setting goals for diverse hiring, and reviewing discipline and other policies.
Admin & Management

How a Texas district provided childcare for essential workers

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Ector County ISD childcare staff stepped up to serve the children of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who were being exposed to COVID every day. 
Admin & Management

New COVID dashboard to provide early warnings for schools

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Superintendents and their teams can analyze COVID trends in their own districts and surrounding schools with an online dashboard that will go live in September.
Admin & Management

3 COVID insights from schools that have reopened

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Districts that have reopened are providing a cautionary tale about the risk of COVID spreading among teachers and students, Johns Hopkins University experts say. 
Admin & Management

How to block COVID’s spread from schools to the community

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Creating student cohorts of limited size is an effective way thay school administrators can stem COVID-19 transmissions when classrooms reopen for in-person instruction.
Admin & Management

9 things parents say about schools in the COVID-era

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Parents' confidence in public schools soared while their support for online learning grew sharply despite the COVID shutdown of schools this spring, according to an annual education survey.
Admin & Management

How parent engagement drives rising achievement

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A surge in family engagement has fueled a major turnaround in student achievement at the Bakersfield City School District in California, this month's District of Distinction winner.
Admin & Management

Here’s one way to get enough masks and PPE to reopen safely

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Schools can fortify their supply chain and build up reserves of masks, hand sanitizer and other PPE with a more strategic procurement approach.
Admin & Management

COVID-era edtech PD: What teachers are saying

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Teachers are eager to use edtech to personalize online learning as schools recover from COVID but say they aren't receiving enough formal professional development.
Education Technology

Ensuring privacy and security when sharing more data

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Privacy and security will be a key concern as school leaders share greater amounts of student data and teachers use new instructional tools.  
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