Leadership Quotes by Andy Hargreaves · Page 2

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

— Andy Hargreaves

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

— Andy Hargreaves

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

— Andy Hargreaves

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

— Andy Hargreaves

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

— Andy Hargreaves

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

— Andy Hargreaves

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

— Andy Hargreaves

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

— Andy Hargreaves

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

— Andy Hargreaves

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

— Andy Hargreaves

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

— Andy Hargreaves

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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