Best 93 quotes of Andy Hargreaves on MyQuotes

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

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

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

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

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

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

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

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

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

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

Every solution has a problem.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

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

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

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

Every learner has special needs.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

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

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

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

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

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

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

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

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

In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas.

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

In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

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

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

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

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

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

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

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.

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

On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

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

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

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