Andy Hargreaves Quotes

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

Andy Hargreaves

• Problem
• Leadership
• Teachers

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

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• Change
• Propose
• Implement

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.

Andy Hargreaves

• Creativity
• Strength
• Collegiality

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Andy Hargreaves

• School
• Powers
• Capacities

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

Andy Hargreaves

• Leadership
• Deal
• Fears

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

Andy Hargreaves

• Raise
• Gap
• Bar

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

Andy Hargreaves

• Learning
• Quality
• Teachers

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

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• Education
• Teachers
• Dynamos

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

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• Life
• Service
• Purposes

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

Andy Hargreaves

• Nature
• Teaching
• Leaders

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

Andy Hargreaves

• Respect
• Support
• Teachers

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

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• Comfortable
• Foot
• Bucket

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

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• Done
• Never
• Teaching

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

Andy Hargreaves

• Innovation
• New
• Improvement