Leadership Quotes by Andy Hargreaves · Page 2

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

— Andy Hargreaves

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

— Andy Hargreaves

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

— Andy Hargreaves

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

— Andy Hargreaves

Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

— Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

— Andy Hargreaves

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

— Andy Hargreaves

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

— Andy Hargreaves

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

— Andy Hargreaves

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

— Andy Hargreaves