On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted. — Andy Hargreaves Arrogance Copy Share Image
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. — Andy Hargreaves Adolescence 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 and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East. — Andy Hargreaves East Copy Share Image
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection. — Andy Hargreaves Excellence 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
Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it. — Andy Hargreaves Career Copy Share Image
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
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 Circles Copy Share Image
Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official… — Andy Hargreaves Colleagues Copy Share Image
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines. — Andy Hargreaves Achieve Copy Share Image
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career. — Andy Hargreaves Careers Copy Share Image
We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest… — Andy Hargreaves Approach Copy Share Image
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching. — Andy Hargreaves Education 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
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves. — Andy Hargreaves Agents Copy Share Image
Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!" — Andy Hargreaves Dreams Copy Share Image
On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor. — Andy Hargreaves Alignment Copy Share Image
It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not. — Andy Hargreaves Essentials Copy Share Image
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education. — Andy Hargreaves Dashboards Copy Share Image
We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"! — Andy Hargreaves Andrew Copy Share Image
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change. — Andy Hargreaves Afterthought Copy Share Image
Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears. — Andy Hargreaves Courage Copy Share Image
Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present. — Andy Hargreaves Compromise Copy Share Image
Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them. — Andy Hargreaves Development Copy Share Image
Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated. — Andy Hargreaves Change Copy Share Image
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention — Andy Hargreaves Economic Copy Share Image
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. — Andy Hargreaves Evaluation Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest. — Andy Hargreaves Career Copy Share Image
Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done. — Andy Hargreaves Done Copy Share Image
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book. — Andy Hargreaves Book Copy Share Image
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced. — Andy Hargreaves Growth Copy Share Image