IASCE Welcomes New Executive Board Member

IASCE welcomes Rachel Lotan to our Board. Rachel A. Lotan is Director of the Stanford Teacher Education Program and professor (teaching) at Stanford’s School of Education. Her teaching and research focus on aspects of teaching and learning in academically and linguistically diverse classrooms, teacher education, sociology of the classroom, and the social organization of schools.

In her previous position as co-director of the Program for Complex Instruction at Stanford University, she worked on the development, research and world-wide dissemination of complex instruction, a pedagogical approach to creating equitable classrooms.  

Rachel received her Ph.D. in Education (Concentration: Social Sciences in Education) from Stanford University. She holds Masters degrees in Sociology and in Education (Concentration: Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning) from Stanford. She has a B.A. in English Linguistics and French Literature from Tel Aviv University.

After graduating from Stanford, Rachel was a post-doctoral fellow with the Center for Policy Research in Education, at Rutgers University.

Rachel lives in Palo Alto with her husband, Zohar, an electronics engineer. Born and raised in Central Europe and having lived in Israel, Rachel is fully proficient in six languages:English,  Hebrew, German, French, Hungarian, and Romanian.