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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

How to propel social-emotional learning in online education

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Sustaining social-emotional learning is crucial as students and teachers make the big shift to online and distance learning during the coronavirus closures.
Curriculum & Instruction

Student 3D-prints face shields for coronavirus fight

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Shortages of face shields and other protective equipment motivated high school senior Emmanuel Cuevas to use his 3D printer to produce face shields for local doctors and nurses.
Admin & Management

How higher ed is helping K-12 cope with coronavirus

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Teachers in the Bronx are receiving virtual PD in distance learning from Fordham University; Berea College is feeding K-12 students while schools are closed.
Admin & Management

District leader says let teachers innovate online

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With schools closed and shifting to online education due to the coronavirus, a Colorado superintendent says he and his leadership team are not scripting or dictating how teachers deliver virtual instruction.
Admin & Management

Kansas educators look ahead with school redesign

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Kansas educators were working on a school redesign project focused on personalized learning, soft skills and community partnerships when the coronavirus closed schools.
Curriculum & Instruction

How 5 districts elevate learning with competency-based education

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K-12 leaders transitioning to competency-based education share their learning experiences and offer guidance.
Curriculum & Instruction

How a big district shifts to competency-based education

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Leaders at Mesa Public Schools recognized that, though they had a high performing system, traditional school models were not preparing all students for the future.
Curriculum & Instruction

Utah district devotes entire high school to competency-based learning

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Students at Launch High School will work on experiential, hands-on learning projects through which they will demonstrate mastery of standards.
Curriculum & Instruction

Competency-based learning: Why it’s not all about the answers

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Competency-based educators in New Hampshire's Sanborn Regional School District constantly develop new performance tasks that allow students to show mastery.
Admin & Management

Why schools of education step up with STEAM

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Teacher training and PD at schools of education now focuses more heavily on STEAM, and how ed tech can power instruction.
Admin & Management

How districts help teachers tackle housing costs

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New residents were ready to pay rent on affordable teacher housing the day that Buncombe County Schools in North Carolina opened its teacher housing community.
Curriculum & Instruction

Does tough grading improve student learning?

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As your schools are going gradeless or switching to standards-based grading, a new report says that tough grading backed by high expectations will elevate student achievement.
Curriculum & Instruction

Why learning to read relies on content

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Adding more reading time to the school day—at the expense of subjects such as social studies and science—will not help struggling readers make progress, a CAO Summit speaker says.
Health and wellness

Why districts are adding nonbinary gender options

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Transgender students in the LGBT community can now list gender as nonbinary when registering in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.
Admin & Management

How rural North Dakota scales online early learning

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In North Dakota, the phrase “You don't have to recover from a good start" drives Superintendent Kirsten Baesler as she works to expand online preschool to rural communities.
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