Haya Kaplan (PhD) is a senior lecturer at Kaye Academic College of Education. She is the head of the Center for Motivation and Self-Determination as well as the head of Kaye Induction Unit. Kaplan is also the head of the Educational Counseling M.Ed program in the College. Her primary research interests are motivational processes affecting autonomous motivation in students and teachers, and educational reforms based on Self-Determination Theory.