Andy Hargreaves Quotes About Leadership
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On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.
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Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.
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The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.
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The teacher has more power than the Minister.
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Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.
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High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
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Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.
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It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
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If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
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Trust processes as well as people.
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The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.
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Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
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On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.
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A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
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Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.
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Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
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Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
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Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
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Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
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Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.
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Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
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Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.
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High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.
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Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
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On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
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Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
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It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.
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Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
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High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
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Every solution has a problem.
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