Andy Hargreaves

Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.

— 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

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

— Andy Hargreaves

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

— Andy Hargreaves

Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.

— Andy Hargreaves

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

— Andy Hargreaves

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

— Andy Hargreaves

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

— Andy Hargreaves

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

— Andy Hargreaves

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

— Andy Hargreaves

Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners.

— Andy Hargreaves

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

— Andy Hargreaves

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

— Andy Hargreaves

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

— Andy Hargreaves

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

— Andy Hargreaves

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

— Andy Hargreaves

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

— Andy Hargreaves