Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andy Hargreaves
Government
Across
Implementing
Ideas
Teacher
Guidelines
Every
Create
District
People
Within
Broads
Community
Broad
Individual
Collaboration
Curricula
School
Teachers
Finland
Together
Schools
Confine

More quotes by Andy Hargreaves

Image
Walking makes us take problems in our stride.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
Sustainable leadership does not compromise the future by expanding and accelerating too quickly in the present.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
There is no morality without temptation otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
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
Image
We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
The teacher has more power than the Minister.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
Andy Hargreaves
Image
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
Andy Hargreaves