Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it. — Andy Hargreaves Career Copy Share Image
On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice. — Andy Hargreaves Best practices Copy Share Image
Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict. — Andy Hargreaves Communities Copy Share Image
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves Character Copy Share Image
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust. — Andy Hargreaves Blind Copy Share Image
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it. — Andy Hargreaves Economist Copy Share Image
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect. — Andy Hargreaves Challenges Copy Share Image
We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same. — 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
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it! — Andy Hargreaves Emotion Copy Share Image
Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East. — 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 Education 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 Action Copy Share Image
High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play. — Andy Hargreaves Creativity Copy Share Image
Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system. — Andy Hargreaves Change Copy Share Image
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate. — Andy Hargreaves Bacon 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 Bad teacher 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
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection. — Andy Hargreaves Excellence Copy Share Image
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity. — Andy Hargreaves Creativity Copy Share Image
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
