1. Judging from your own experience, do you think it was ethical for Dr. Edwards to discuss his former teachers with the new principal? Why, or why not? 2. Curricular changes are often influenced by and are manifestations of larger social forces. What societal changes are influencing curricular changes today? 3. Is it possible to bring a school facing the problem of unsatisfactory levels of student achievement to meet the current standards set by the district, state government, and federal government with a diverse faculty? Why, or why not? 4. One of the major problems of this school was the lack of incentive to change, a situation not unique to Washington Elementary School.Tradition and goal ambiguity tended to make this school sluggish. How can the new principal initiate change efforts and find ways of providing help instead of managing school-level programs? 5. How might the principal use the diversity of faculty as strength to improve the teaching and learning process?