District Administration – Matt Zalaznick
“As teachers restart learning this new school year, they should focus on student social-emotional learning, or SEL, before trying to make up for learning loss, educators and other experts say. Students and staff will need to process the emotions and traumas experienced over the last several months before instruction can resume effectively. “We don’t want to start the year off by testing students, we want to start the year off by connecting with students,” says Ebony Lee, assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and assessment at Clayton County Public Schools outside Atlanta.” (more)