Andy Hargreaves Quotes

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• There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or…
• Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
• Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.
• Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
• It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
• The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
• We should test prudently; not profligately.
• Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
• When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.
• Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
• Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
• Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
• If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
• The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
• Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
• Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.
• Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
• We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
• It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
• What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

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