Saturday, March 9, 2013

Andy Hargreaves' 100 Quotes/100 Days - Some Good Ones!

Andy Hargreaves, Professor of Educational Leadership at Boston College, posts a daily quote on his Twitter account. https://twitter.com/HargreavesBC

100 Quotes/100 Days #89 The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well-being of students and their learning.
#88 Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, clssrms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

100 Quotes in 100 Days #87 #Teachers who *believe* they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do.

100 Quotes in 100 Days #86 High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

100 Quotes in 100 Days #78 #Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people’s feelings.

100 Quotes in 100 days #72 Courageous leadership is not fearless ldrshp. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

100 Quotes in 100 days #66 Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

100 quotes in 100 days #63 Blame and betrayal are the emotional enemies of improvement.

100 quotes in 100 days #56 *Every* learner has special needs.

100 quotes in 100 days #54 Ed leaders must have the will at times to release ldrship to the teachers the parents and the students

100 quotes in 100 days #46 Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

100 quotes in 100 days #45 #Teaching is a passionate profession.

#42 We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

100 quotes in 100 days #37 On being: Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

100 quotes in 100 days #35 On change: Improvement is about doing something better; #innovation is about doing something new.

100 quotes/100 days #24 You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

100 quotes in 100 days #19 #Change is easy to propose, hard to implement & especially hard to sustain.

100 quotes in 100 days #14 Trust processes as well as people.

100 quotes in 100 days #9 Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers – not for, with or by them

100 quotes in 100 days #8 Too often, shared visions really mean, “I have a vision; you share it!”

100 quotes in 100 days #4 On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

100quotes in 100days #3 What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

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