Stage Two: Interviews. Interview one administrator and two teachers within a school organization to determine areas they believe are in need of change. If you are unable to gain access through a local school or district office, you may go to the blog site Edutopia: Latest Blogs on K-12 Education Reform(http://www.edutopia.org/blogs) and contact administrators and teachers who have been involved in change initiatives at their school sites. Be sure to come up with a list of questions prior to the interview. You might base some of your questions on some of the data findings from the Week One Assignment, “Stage One: Problem Identification.” Examples of questions follow: 1. What do you think is the most important issue facing this school, and why do you believe it is the issue most in need of attention?

1. EDU 615 Week 2 Stage Two Interviews
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Stage Two: Interviews. Interview one administrator and two teachers
within a school organization to determine areas they believe are in need
of change. If you are unable to gain access through a local school or
district office, you may go to the blog site Edutopia: Latest Blogs on K-
12 Education Reform(http://www.edutopia.org/blogs) and contact
administrators and teachers who have been involved in change initiatives
at their school sites. Be sure to come up with a list of questions prior to
the interview. You might base some of your questions on some of the
data findings from the Week One Assignment, “Stage One: Problem
Identification.” Examples of questions follow:
1. What do you think is the most important issue facing this school,
and why do you believe it is the issue most in need of attention?
2. If you could change one thing about the curriculum, what would it
be and why?
3. What are some professional development topics that would most
benefit teachers at this school and why?
4. Why do you think third grade test scores in math are declining?
After conducting your interviews, in a three- to five-page paper (double-
spaced, not including title and reference pages), describe your findings

2. from the interviews and discuss how they are aligned (or not aligned)
with what you found when analyzing school record data for the Week
One Assignment. Format your paper as follows:
Part One
Description of how you collected and analyzed your interview data
a. Who did you interview? (You may use pseudonyms to protect the
identity of the interviewees.) Did you
place answers into categories to identify emerging patterns and themes?
How did you analyze the data to compare and contrast responses?
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EDU 615 Week 5 Stage Five Mental Model
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Stage Five: Mental Models. For this assignment, write a five- to seven-
page paper (double- spaced, not including title and reference pages) that:
1. Describe the problem/issue(s) identified previously (in Week
One).

3. 2. Describe strategies you identified, per the research for addressing
that issue(s)/problem(s) (in Week Three).
3. Describe how you would establish a moral purpose statement for
change, write at least one moral purpose
statement example to offer to stakeholders, and identify the steps you
would take to procure buy-in and
support for the endeavor from stakeholders identified.
4. Then take a look at the data you collected through the interviews
(e.g., face-to-face, blogs, emails),
consider past experience and conversations with colleagues and
supervisors, and examine demographic data to identify some of the most
prevalent mental models (i.e., established ways of thinking about a
topic) that exist within the organization in question. For example,
individuals within your organization may have a mental model that
technology is too complicated and they don't have time to learn how to
use it. Mental models in your school might be positive (e.g., a belief that
all students are worth "saving") or negative (e.g., a belief that leadership
is always trying to sabotage their efforts).
5. Describe two or three of the most prevalent collective mental
models you believe exist in your organization. Describe how these
mental models will either be an obstacle to your proposed change effort
or aid in its facilitation. In other words, describe how the mental models
either help or hinder (or both) the change initiative you believe is
necessary.
§ If you believe the mental models that exist in your organization will
hinder your change effort, identify at least one mental model that should
be cultivated in your organization to facilitate the necessary change and

4. remedy the identify issue/problem. Explain how this mental model can
be initiated, developed, communicated, and sustained in an effort to
implement the change needed.
6. Describe possible challenges to cultivating and sustaining the
mental model(s) identified, or suggest and provide possible solutions to
overcome the challenges and facilitate the change in thinking among
stakeholders.
7. Find at least one peer-reviewed research article and identify at
least two strategies recommended for either changing existing mental
models or using them to strengthen your plan for change.
Your paper must cite sources both in-text and on a reference page and be
formatted per APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing
Center.
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