Andy Hargreaves Quotes about Leadership - Page 3

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Teaching is a passionate profession.

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

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