Andy Hargreaves Quotes - Page 3

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

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

Deadwood did not kill itself!

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

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

Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.

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

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

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

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

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

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

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

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

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

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

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

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit