Leadership Quotes by Andy Hargreaves · Page 3

There is no algorithm for creativity.

— Andy Hargreaves

Deadwood did not kill itself!

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

— Andy Hargreaves

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on…

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

— Andy Hargreaves