Quotes from Andy Hargreaves

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

Every solution has a problem.

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

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

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

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

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

There is no algorithm for creativity.

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

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

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

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every learner has special needs.

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

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

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