Andy Hargreaves Quotes about Leadership - Page 2

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

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

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

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

Every solution has a problem.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

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

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

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

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

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!