Andy Hargreaves Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, School, Learning

• Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, School

• Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, School

• Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, School

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, School

• Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, School

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Creativity

  Andy Hargreaves, Dennis L. Shirley (2012). “The Global Fourth Way: The Quest for Educational Excellence”, p.83, Corwin Press

• Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

• Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Teacher, School, Design

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

• 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.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Country, Teacher, School

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

• 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

  Teacher, School, Government

  "The Global Search for Education: What Is the Fourth Way?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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