Andy Hargreaves

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

— Andy Hargreaves

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

— Andy Hargreaves

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

— Andy Hargreaves

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

— Andy Hargreaves

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

— Andy Hargreaves

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

— Andy Hargreaves

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

— Andy Hargreaves

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

— Andy Hargreaves

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

— Andy Hargreaves

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

— Andy Hargreaves

We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over…

— Andy Hargreaves

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not…

— Andy Hargreaves

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

— Andy Hargreaves

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

— Andy Hargreaves

Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.

— Andy Hargreaves

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

— Andy Hargreaves

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

— Andy Hargreaves

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

— Andy Hargreaves

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

— Andy Hargreaves

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

— Andy Hargreaves

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

— Andy Hargreaves

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

— Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

— Andy Hargreaves

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

— Andy Hargreaves

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

— Andy Hargreaves

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

— Andy Hargreaves

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

— Andy Hargreaves

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

— Andy Hargreaves

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

— Andy Hargreaves

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

— Andy Hargreaves

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

— Andy Hargreaves

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

— Andy Hargreaves

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

— Andy Hargreaves

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

— Andy Hargreaves

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

— Andy Hargreaves