Andy Hargreaves Quotes
Top 99 wise famous quotes and sayings by Andy Hargreaves
Andy Hargreaves Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Andy Hargreaves on Wise Famous Quotes.
One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
Your most memorable students are in your first classes and your last classes: make your last years the finest of your career.
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.
High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.