You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share
