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Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
Andy Hargreaves
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There is no algorithm for creativity.
Andy Hargreaves
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One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
Andy Hargreaves
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We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.
Andy Hargreaves
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The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.
Andy Hargreaves
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High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
Andy Hargreaves
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Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
Andy Hargreaves
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It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.
Andy Hargreaves
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Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
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We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!
Andy Hargreaves
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The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.
Andy Hargreaves
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Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.
Andy Hargreaves
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A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.
Andy Hargreaves
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A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
Andy Hargreaves
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Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
Andy Hargreaves
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What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
Andy Hargreaves
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Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
Andy Hargreaves
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A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
Andy Hargreaves
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Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
Andy Hargreaves
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You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
Andy Hargreaves
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If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
Andy Hargreaves
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High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.
Andy Hargreaves
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Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
Andy Hargreaves
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Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
Andy Hargreaves
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Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
Andy Hargreaves
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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.
Andy Hargreaves
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Every learner has special needs.
Andy Hargreaves
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On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Andy Hargreaves
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There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.
Andy Hargreaves
30.
Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
Andy Hargreaves
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The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
Andy Hargreaves
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Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
Andy Hargreaves
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Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
Andy Hargreaves
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Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
Andy Hargreaves
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It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.
Andy Hargreaves
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Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
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On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.
Andy Hargreaves
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Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
Andy Hargreaves
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On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Andy Hargreaves
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Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right.
Andy Hargreaves
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Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit
Andy Hargreaves
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Teaching is a passionate profession.
Andy Hargreaves
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The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.
Andy Hargreaves
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Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
Andy Hargreaves
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Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Andy Hargreaves
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Deadwood did not kill itself!
Andy Hargreaves
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Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
Andy Hargreaves
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Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
Andy Hargreaves
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It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
Andy Hargreaves
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There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
Andy Hargreaves