Professor Lee Teitel

Lee Teitel is the founding director of the Reimagining Integration: The Diverse and Equitable Schools (RIDES) Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.   RIDES supports schools, districts, and charter organizations in moving beyond desegregation (getting diverse students in their buildings) to become places where all children learn at high levels, feel included, appreciate their own and other cultures, understand racism, and work to dismantle it. The Equity Improvement Cycle that is at the heart of the RIDES Institute builds on over a decade of practical on-the-ground Instructional Rounds improvement work.  Through RIDES and as an individual consultant, Teitel has helped hundreds of teachers, administrators, and students in over 35 schools and districts around the country use the Equity Improvement Cycle to name, own, and address inequities in their schools. 

The interview was recorded December 2019