Motivation

Many educators suggest that current economic conditions and legislative initiatives within our states and nation have lead to low morale and lack of motivation for school employees.  Using Herzberg's Hygiene theory and Maslow's Needs theory, please share your views on how and why current conditions may impact teacher motivation and share strategies that a building principal might employ to build morale and increase motivation.  

Force-Field Analysis

Describe Lewin's Theory of FFA and explain how it might be helpful for a school leader's successful implementation of a new initiative.  

School Change - Response for Module 3

Researchers (Katz & Kahn 1978) suggest that schools are open systems and as such they have inputs, transformation processes, outputs and feedback loops which correlate with organizational change.  How and why might knowledge of the open systems model be useful to a school principal as it relates understanding the  the characteristics of school change?