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Biography
Dr. Lotan is Professor Emerita and the former Director of the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø Teacher Education Program (STEP). Her teaching and research focus on aspects of teaching and learning in academically and linguistically diverse classrooms and topics in teacher education. Currently, she directs the Program for Complex Instruction at º£½ÇÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø, where she works on the development, research and worldwide dissemination of complex instruction, a pedagogical approach to creating equitable classrooms. For ten years before starting graduate work, Dr. Lotan taught English and French in junior high and high school.
Other titles
Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Graduate School of Education
Program affiliations
CTE: Teacher Education
(MA) GCE/IEPA
Research interests
Equity in Education | Teachers and Teaching
Recent publications
Ploeger, S., Pescarmona, I., Bunch, G. C., & Lotan, R. A. (2025). Building equitable, excellent, and democratic classrooms around the world: Complex Instruction and beyond. INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION.
Lotan, R. A. (2024). Complex instruction in heterogeneous schools: building equitable, excellent, and democratic classrooms. INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION.
Lotan, R. A. (2022). Equitable classrooms: A compelling connection between theory and practice. (M. Webster Jr. & L. S. Walker, Eds.), Unequals: The power and of status and expectation in our social lives (pp. 178–199). Oxford University Press.
