Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present. — Andy Hargreaves Compromise 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
On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor. — Andy Hargreaves Alignment Copy Share Image
It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure. — Andy Hargreaves Disgust Copy Share Image
Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!" — Andy Hargreaves Dreams 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
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust. — Andy Hargreaves Blind Copy Share Image
There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves Character 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
On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice. — Andy Hargreaves Best practices Copy Share Image
A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it. — Andy Hargreaves Capacity Copy Share Image
When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate. — Andy Hargreaves Creativity Copy Share Image
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past. — Andy Hargreaves Classic Copy Share Image
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity. — Andy Hargreaves Creativity Copy Share Image
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership. — Andy Hargreaves Bad teacher Copy Share Image
Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection. — Andy Hargreaves Excellence Copy Share Image
Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system. — Andy Hargreaves Change 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
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East. — Andy Hargreaves East Copy Share Image
Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings. — Andy Hargreaves Activate Copy Share Image
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it! — Andy Hargreaves Emotion Copy Share Image
Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement. — Andy Hargreaves Betrayal Copy Share Image
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society. — Andy Hargreaves Caring Copy Share Image
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on… — Andy Hargreaves Average Copy Share Image
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. — Andy Hargreaves Education Copy Share Image
Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures. — Andy Hargreaves Asian Copy Share Image
The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give. — Andy Hargreaves Bags Copy Share Image
