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Dr. Aaron Massey

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NBA champion Knicks have a lot to teach us about effective education

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What I’ve come to learn is that effective school teams are not much different than effective basketball teams. That the decisions made in film sessions, player meetings, and the front office are similar in importance to school board meetings, professional developments, and the central office. And that if winning is our goal (i.e. getting results alongside students), you have to have a feel for the game AND understand analytics. 

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A comic illustration titled "The Burden of Accountability" showing a woman with an apron reading "Teacher" carrying a boulder reading "Student Test Scores & Accountability." Below her is written, "Classroom Realities." In the background, two men labeled "Policymaker" and "Superintendent" are carrying briefcases reading "Gliding By."

In education, we are defining accountability too narrowly

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But while holding the right people accountable to the implementation of schooling is critical, a primary focus on accountability of implementation is incomplete. How excellent teachers and administrators navigate the conditions/systems of school, are a) are impacted by constraints of a system and b) have an impact on what we all want from school: results. 

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ICE out: a Black History Month reflection

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Right now, today, people are in the early stages of exploiting that some of us are afraid to speak up and some of us are not. You have just as valid of a reason to not speak up as those that didn’t speak up during Jim Crow. And though that might come off as direct, the gravity of what’s happening in your community, right now, is no less paramount. 

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We should ask teachers how to solve gun violence in America

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Boardhawk columnist Aaron Massey says the mass hooting last weekend at Brown University hit close to home. What, he asks, do teachers think about how to approach gun violence in American schools? “If you ask me, they are the ones that can make progress in solving gun violence.Teachers have a unique positionality in society in that they see children progress through the human developmental stages.”

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Ten questions to ask candidates that get at the heart of being a productive school board member

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instead of just learning about their theoretical stances that they squeezed into whatever political box was closest to them , there are additional questions that we should be asking candidates to better understand how school board candidates plan on being productive in the seat. 

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