Andy Hargreaves Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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