Dr. Rachel Lotan

Dr. Lotan is Professor Emerita, at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. She served as Director of the Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP) from 1999-2014. Currently, she directs the Program for Complex Instruction at Stanford, where she continues to lead research and dissemination of Complex Instruction, a pedagogical approach for building equitable classrooms. Dr. Lotan’s work lies at the intersection of research on teaching and learning, sociology of the classroom and schools, and teaching as a profession. She focuses on the conditions necessary to create equal-status participation of students in academically, linguistically, culturally, and socially heterogeneous classrooms. Dr. Lotan authored and co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, technical reports, and presented at international and national conferences and educational organizations. In 2014, she published the 3rd edition of Designing Groupwork: Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom, originally authored by E.G. Cohen, and currently works on the 4th edition.