Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

— Andy Hargreaves

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

— Andy Hargreaves

Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Trust processes as well as people.

— Andy Hargreaves

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

— Andy Hargreaves

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— 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