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Andy Hargreaves

Professor Emeritus

Department

TCS Teaching, Curriculum, and Society

Profile

Andy Hargreaves is Research Professor at ֱ College, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa, and Honorary Professor at Swansea University.He is former President of the , Adviser in Education to the First Minister of Scotland and to the Minister of Education for New Brunswick in Canada. Andy is President and co-founder of the a group of nations committed to broadly defined excellence, equity, wellbeing, inclusion, democracy, and human rights in education. He is an elected member of the .

Andy’s current projects address developing and researching a national network of schools that serve high needs populations through ; implementation of inclusive education policies; and building global education policy networks to advance humanistic values. These total almost $3m in funding.

Andy has consulted with and addressed the OECD, the World Bank, the International Baccalaureate, Education International, the International Confederation of Principals, governments, universities, and professional associations worldwide. He has given keynote addresses in over 50 countries, in 47 US states and in all Australian states and Canadian provinces. Andy is ranked the with most influence on US education policy debate. In 2015, ֱ College gave him its Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Education University of Hong Kong and the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the University of Bolton (his hometown university) in the UK. Professor Hargreaves’s books have received 8 outstanding writing awards, including (with Michael Fullan) the Grawemeyer Award, the most prestigious and highest value award in the field.

Andy has created new knowledge in the field including the concepts of professional capital, contrived collegiality, sustainable leadership, and the emotional practice of teaching.

Professor Hargreaves’s research is . His classic text on is among the most cited research books on teaching by a living author, including all languages. Andy’s most recent books are : the beating heart of educational transformation (2023), : A memoir of education & social mobility (2020), and, with Dennis Shirley, : Who do our kids think they are and how do we help them belong? (2024), three forces that will uplift your students in a volatile world (2022), and (2021). Andy’s opinion pieces can be read in The Washington Post, Education Week, The Conversation, The London Times, the Canadian Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
  • Principal Investigator: ARC Education Project convening Education Ministers & teacher union leaders annually to promote broad excellence, equity, inclusion, democracy & human rights in professionally run systems.
  • Principal Investigator: LEGO Foundation, , a $2.73 million project to build and investigate a network of 40 schools across 7 Canadian provinces, to support play-based learning for marginalized students after COVID-19
  • Co-investigator: 3-year developmental evaluation of Nova Scotia Inclusion strategy, Canada
  • Since 2022, Professor Hargreaves has delivered in-person keynote addresses in the US,Canada, Australia, the UK, Ireland, Japan, Hong Kong, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, and Norway.
  • One of six global experts commissioned by the UN Secretary General and Education International in 2023, to contribute to the work and the final report of the .

Recent & Major Books (Lifetime Total: 35)

  • Shirley, D. & Hargreaves, A. (2024) The Age of Identity: Who Do Our Kids Think They Are…and How We Can Help Them Belong. Corwin Press

  • Hargreaves, A. (2023) Leadership from the Middle: The Beating Heart of Educational Transformation, New York, Routledge.

  • Hargreaves, A & Shirley, D. (2022). Well-being in Schools: three forces that will uplift your students in a volatile world, ASCD

  • Shirley, D. & Hargreaves, A. (2021), Five Paths of Student Engagement: blazing the trail to learning and success, Solution Tree.

  • Hargreaves, A (2020). Moving: a memoir of education and social mobility, Solution Tree

  • Hargreaves, A & O’Connor, M.T. (2018). Collaborative Professionalism: Corwin

  • Hargreaves, A., Boyle, A. & Harris, A. (2014)Uplifting Leadership, San Francisco, Jossey Bass

  • Hargreaves, A. &Fullan, M. (2012)Professional Capital: transforming teaching in every school,New York, Teachers College Press.

  • Hargreaves, A. &Shirley, D. (2012)The Global Fourth Way: the quest for educational excellence,Thousand Oaks, CA; Corwin Press.

  • Hargreaves, A., Lieberman, A., Fullan, M. & Hopkins, D. (Eds.) (2010)Second International Handbook of Educational Change. Dordrecht, Springer.

  • Hargreaves, A. & Shirley, D. (2009)The Fourth Way,Thousand Oaks, CA; Corwin Press.

  • Hargreaves, A. & Fink, D. (2006)Sustainable Leadership, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.

  • Hargreaves, A. (2003)Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity. New York: Teachers' College Press and Buckingham: Open University Press.

  • Hargreaves, A. (1994).Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers’ Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age. Continuum & Teacher’s College Pres

Recent Research Grants

  • LEGO Foundation. Playing at the Edge of Change: Creating & Researching a National Network of Playful Schools Serving High Needs Populations (with Trista Hollweck) $2,170,000, 2022-2023

  • Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. Taking the Panic out of the Pandemic: Creating and Using a Thought-meet to Stimulate and Support a Global Educational Movement for Equitable, Inclusive and Sustainable Educational Solutions to Covid-19 (with Trista Hollweck and Richard Barwell), $32,000, 2020-2021

  • ARC Education Project, an international consortium of education ministries and professional associations, 2020- $168,000 p.a.

  • Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Developmental Evaluation of the Implementation and Preliminary Outcomes of an Inclusive Education Policy Framework in Nova Scotia, $358,794 (with Jessica Whitley). 2019-2022

  • WISE Foundation, Professional Collaboration: An Illustrated, Researched-Based Typology, $103,000, 2016-2017

  • Council of Ontario Directors of Education, Leading From the Middle, $250,000 (with Dennis Shirley), 2015-2017

  • Northwest Rural Innovation and Student Engagement (NW RISE) Network, Education NorthWest, USA, $500,000 (with Dennis Shirley), 2013 -2018

  • Council of Ontario Directors of Education, Evaluation of “Essential for Some, Good for All” project, $400,000 (with Henry Braun), 2009-2013

Honors

  • Ongoing - Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)
  • 2024 Education Adviser to the Minister of Education, New Brunswick, Canada
  • 2022 - on US public policy debate - Education Week
  • 2020 -Life Member, International Congress for School Effectiveness & Improvement
  • 2017-2019 - Elected President, International Congress for School Effectiveness & Improvement
  • 2016
  • 2016 - International Education Advisor to the First Minister of Scotland
  • 2016 International Education Advisor to Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland
  • 2016 Education Advisor to Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario
  • 2016-19 AERA, International Relations Committee
  • 2016-19 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University
  • 2016-19 Professor II, University of Stavanger, Norway
  • 2015
  • 2010 Honorary Doctorate, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • 2010 Contribution to the Field Award, Learning Forward (formerly National Staff Development Council)
  • Outstanding Book/Writing Awards from the:
    • American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (2013, 1995)
    • International Leadership Association (2013)
    • National Staff Development Council (2009)
    • American Educational Research Association (2004)
    • American Libraries Association (2004)
  • Visiting Professorships & Fellowships in USA, Canada, England, Sweden, Hong Kong, Singapore & Japan

Opinion & Social Media (2020 - present)

  • Times Higher Education, February 15, 2024.
  • International Education News, February 14, 2024.
  • Principal Connections, Winter 2023.
  • Schools Week, December 1, 2023. ​
  • Education International, November 2, 2023. ​
  • Principal Connections, Winter 2022.
  • El Pais, September 2022. ​​​Andy Hargreaves: ""
  • International Confederation of Principals, August 2022.
  • Kappan, August 2022.
  • Times Education, UK. August 2022.
  • CBC Morning Radio (2022) January.
  • Washington Post (2021). to help students today. December 16.
  • Principal Connections, (2021).
  • Education Week, (2021). November 5.
  • Times Education UK, (2021). . July 2 (with Dennis Shirley).
  • Magisterio, (2021). Andrew Hargreaves: "." February 9.
  • Sydney Morning Herald, (2021). February 9.
  • Times Education, UK. 2020. December 11.
  • Schoolsweek UK. (2020). , by J.L. Dutaut. September 22.
  • International Education News. (2020). : a Memoir of Education and Social Mobility”. June 24.
  • The Conversation (2020), : Here Are 5 Big Issues and Opportunities, April 16.
  • Washington Post (2020). — after coronavirus, August 6.
  • Washington Post (2020), – For Everyone Teaching Kids at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis. April 7.
  • Times Education UK (2020) , April 3.
  • Globe and Mail (2020). . A student’s future should not be decided in Grade 9. July 9.
  • Toronto Star (2020). (with Michael Fullan).
  • Times Education UK (2020). . May 19.
  • Education International Worlds of Education (2020). Lessons from the Pandemic: October 3.

Select Papers & Chapters (2016 - present)

  • Hollweck, T., Cotnam-Kappel, M., Hargreaves, A & Boultif, A. (2023). Playing Our Way Out of the Pandemic, EdCan Net.
  • Hargreaves, A. (2022), "High school change: a reflective essay on three decades of frustration, struggle and progress"Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 60 No. 3, pp. 245-261.
  • Hargreaves, A. (2021). What the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Taught Us About Teachers and Teaching. In Vaillancourt, T. (Ed) Covid-19 and Education in Canada, the report of the COVID-19 Education Group, Ottawa, Royal Society of Canada.

  • Hargreaves, A. (2021). , Educational Leadership, Vol 79, No 4, pp 26-31, December.

  • Hargreaves, A & Shirley, D. (2021) Leadership, Identity, and Intersectionality, in Netolicky, D. (Ed), Future Alternatives for Educational Leadership: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Democracy, New York, Routledge.

  • Shirley, D., Hargreaves, A., & Washington, S. (2020). , Teaching and Teacher Education, March,

  • Hargreaves, A. (2020). Austerity and inequality; or prosperity for all? Educational policy directions beyond the pandemic, Educational Research for Policy and Practice, October.

  • &(2020), : revisiting and revising classic understandings of teachers' work,, Vol. 5 No. 3/4, pp. 327-336

  • Hargreaves, A. (2020) Large-scale assessments and their effects: The case of mid-stakes tests in Ontario.J Educ Change21,393–420. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-020-09380-5

  • & (2020). Leading from the middle: its nature, origins, and importance, , 5(1), 92-114.

  • Hargreaves, A. (2020). The Day After: education & equity after the global pandemic, in Soskil, M (Ed.) Flip The System US, New York, Routledge.

  • Hargreaves, A. (2019). Teacher collaboration: 30 years of research on its nature, forms, limitations and effects, Teachers and Teaching, 25(5), 603-621. DOI:

  • Hargreaves, A. & O’Connor, M.T. (2018). Cultures of collaboration: their origins and opponents, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2(2),74-85

  • Hargreaves, A., Wangia, S. & O’Connor, M. (2018). Battling education narratives, in Netolicky, D., Andrews, J. & Paterson, C. (Eds.) (2015) Flip The System Australia, Routledge, 120-133.

  • Hargreaves, A. & Lowenhaupt, R. (2018). Leading with Consistency, in Waite, D., & Bogotch, I. (Eds.) The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership, New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

  • Hargreaves, A. (2016). The place for professional capital and community, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 1(1).

Select Keynote Addresses (2015–2016)

2020
February

  • University of Manitoba, Joan Irvine Public Lecture, Winnpeg.

January

  • Int'l Congress for School Effectiveness & Improvement, Marrakech, Morocco, Plenary Address.
  • PUCRS University, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Two Public and Online Lectures.

2019
December

  • Learning Forward Conference, Thought Leader Lecture, St Louis, MO

November

  • Plan Ceibal National Event, Montevido, Uruguay, Public Lecture
  • Danish publishing launch of Collaborative Professionalism, Copenhagen

October

  • Gyeonggido Office of Education International Conference on Peace, Justice & Dignity, Suwon, South Korea, Keynote Address.
  • Icelandic School Leaders Annual Conference, Selfloss, Iceland, Keynote

September

  • Irish FÉILTE (Festival of Education), Galway, Keynote Conversation.
  • Welsh National Museum, Cardiff, Public Lecture.
  • Wales National Academy for Educational Leadership Wales, Swansea U

August

  • World Education Research Association, Biennial Congress, Tokyo, Plenary

June

  • University of Stavanger, address to Rogaland region educators, Norway

May

  • City of Rotterdam P-O Council, keynote for system leaders, Netherlands
  • Central Connecticut State University, 3rd Annual Teacher Leadership Fellow Program, New Britain, CT. Keynote Address
  • ULead Annual International Conference, Banff, Alberta, Keynote

April

  • American Educational Research Association Annual Congress, presentation to the AERA Educational Change Special Interest Group, Toronto, Canada
  • Shanker Institute Symposium, Teaching: Art, Craft or Science, invited presentation, Washington, DC.

March

  • 21stst Century Learning Conference, Hong Kong, Keynote, Collaborative Professionalism
  • Gonski Institute of Education, Sydney, Rethinking Standardized Assessment, Keynote
  • NCERT Annual Conference, Hilton Head, S. Carolina, Keynote Address.

February

  • Hong Kong University, Public Lecture, Identity and Equity in a Changing World.
  • Swiss Group of International Schools Congress, Basel, Keynote.

January

  • BETT Annual International Congress, London, Keynote, Collaborative Professionalism
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh, Invited Public Lecture
  • Scottish Parliament, Presentation of Evidence to Select Committee on Standardized Assessment
  • Presidential Address to ICSEI Congress, Stavanger, Norway

2018
November

  • Irish National Teachers' Organization Annaul Conference, Dublin, Keynote

September

  • Australian Council for Educational Leaders National Conference, Keynote

May

  • European Commission, Inpsiring Change Conference, Brussels, Keynote

March

  • 21stst Century Learning Conference, Bangkok, Keynote, Collaborative Professionalism
  • International Summit on the Teaching Profession, Lisbon, Portugal
  • ACSD Keynote, Collaborative Professionalism, ֱ Convention Center

February

  • Hong Kong University,100th Anniversary Conference, Keynote, Cultures of Teaching.

January

  • ICSEI Congress, Singapore, Presidential Address

2017
December

  • Teacher Leadership & Learning Project Conference, Toronto, Keynote

November

  • WISE Research Summit, Doha, Invited presentation on Collaborative Professionalism
  • International Congress of Congresses Association (ICCA), Prague, Keynote
  • CIDREE, Annual European Conference, Dublin, Keynote

October

  • Third Diane Ravitch Public Lecture, Wellesley College, MA
  • ACSD, Whole Child for the Whole World Conference, Keynote, ֱ

May

  • Rotterdam, Unite for Quality Education & Leadership Conference, Keynote

April

  • American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, ARC

March

  • Singapore Principals Academy, Leading from the Middle, Keynote
  • Hong Kong U, Public Lecture, The Case for Collaboration.

February

  • Harvard Graduate School of Education, Keynote, Asquith Lecture Hall
  • Cleveland Citadel of Freedom & Democracy, NPR, Leading From the Middle, Public Lecture

January

  • Whole Education National Conference, London, UK, Whole Teachers, Whole Leadership, Whole Systems, Keynote address.
  • ICSEI Congress, Ottawa, Canada, Leading from the Middle in Ontario

2016
December

  • Specialist Schools and Academies Trust National Conference, Birmingham, UK, Leading from the Middle, Keynote Address
  • Learning Forward Annual Conference, Vancouver. Bringing the Profession Back In.

November

  • 3rd International Congress of Escuelas Nuevas, Bogota, Colombia, Invited Address.

September

  • World Association of Lesson Study, Exeter-Professional Capital and Lesson Study, Keynote
  • Atlantic Rim Education Summit, Reykavik, Deep Collaboration, Invited Presentation.
  • Acceptance Speech for the Robert Owen Award for Public Education, Glasgow

August

  • European Educational Research Assocation, Invited Keynote Address, Dublin

June

  • Edutech Asia-Pacific Conference, Terms and Tools of Engagement, Brisbane, Australia

May

  • Instituto Pedagogico Arubano, Jubilee Conference, Aruba. Professional Capital in Teacher Education.

April

  • Grawemeyer Award Winners Panel, AERA, Washington D.C.
  • Qatar Education Development Foundation Conference, Doha, Uplifting Education

February

  • National Summit on the Teaching Profession, Washington, D.C
  • Acceptance Speech for Horace Mann Award, Horace Mann League, Phoenix, Arizona

January

  • International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Glasgow, Leading From the Middle
  • Royal Society of Arts Public Lecture, Professional Capital in Action, London
  • Visible Learning National Conference, London UK, Uplifting Leadership