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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.
Admin & Management

SEL priority: Students must feel safe before they can learn

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Administrators in Naperville School District 203, where SEL has been entrenched in the curriculum for years, have focused first on professional development for teachers in the post-COVID world.
Admin & Management

9 ways to boost social-emotional learning post-COVID

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CASEL and the Committee for Children's Second Step program—two of the leading nonprofit SEL providers—offer tips for social-emotional learning during the COVID pandemic.
Admin & Management

4 stories of how student voice is growing in volume

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While some districts have been steeped in student voice for several years, the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing Black Lives Matters movement has given more urgency to these efforts.
Admin & Management

How Chicago’s 200 student voice committees solve problems

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In Chicago, students as young as elementary age learn to organize and build civic leadership skills within the district's 200 student voice committees.
Admin & Management

How a superintendent builds a ‘high level of student voice’

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Student voice has had a significant impact on diversifying the curriculum and altering the dress code in Maryland's Howard County Public School System.
Admin & Management

Student voice creates a greater sense of belonging and diversity

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Asking students for feedback but not taking any action is worse than not asking them at all, says Principal Arria Coburn of the Springfield Renaissance School principal.
Admin & Management

Here’s where student voice inspires eighth-grade activism

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Students on the Superintendent's 8th Grade Council in the Pendergast Elementary School District have a voice in planning budgets and organizing big events.
Admin & Management

How to create your own elementary school tech curriculum

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Mississippi lacks an elementary school tech curriculum, so STEM-focused educators at Madison County Schools developed their own computer science program.
Admin & Management

6 options for serving school lunch, based on cost and safety

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Whether districts are resuming with in-person or online learning, models for adjusting foodservice come with different capacities for social distancing and nutritional variety.
Admin & Management

Tackling trauma: 6 steps for enhancing student mental health care

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District leaders can fortify school mental health services by training teachers to spot trauma, focusing on COVID's inequitable impacts, enlisting parents and building community partnerships.
Admin & Management

CDC prioritizes in-person learning in guidance for reopening schools

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Bringing students and teachers back to classrooms for in-person instruction is the guiding principle in the CDC's revised guidelines for reopening schools during a continued surge in COVID infections.
Admin & Management

How students can run robotics missions remotely

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The shift to online learning did not short circuit students' ability to embark remotely on some multidisciplinary robotics missions in their Compton USD classrooms this summer. 
Admin & Management

9 reasons synchronous classes engage English language learners

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Building community during synchronous classes sessions with videos and music will help keep English-language learners engaged in online learning during the coming school year.
Admin & Management

Schools can only reopen safely where COVID is under control

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Reopening schools is crucial but students and teachers cannot return to classrooms safely until surrounding communities have controlled COVID infections, a group of Johns Hopkins University medical experts say.
Curriculum & Instruction

6 steps for boosting student engagement in online learning

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Educators have a better chance of keeping students engaged in online learning with synchronous class meetings, small-group instruction, social media and some other strategies.
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