Professor Battle has been steeped in the honorable tradition of educating and exchanging ideas from a very young age. As the eldest, she was expected to teach and tutor her four siblings, so it was no surprise to her when she was given the responsibility of teaching students at the Jones & Haywood School of Ballet in Washington, DC and later in the New York City area. She later drew upon those earlier hard-earned lessons in interpersonal communication and reciprocal teaching.

As a performer Lettie appeared as a dancer, singer, actress on both coasts and Europe in DON'T BOTHER ME I CAN'T COPE, RAISIN, THE WIZ (original Broadway cast and film), SHOWGIRLS, WOMEN of BREWSTER PLACE and PURLIE.

Unable to dismiss her growing concern about her children's educational experiences, she investigated and augmented her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts from New York University with post-graduate coursework in social work, psychology, secondary education, adult education, curriculum development, research, educational administration and early education.

She was continually motivated not only by her student's enthusiasm but also by her own children's eager participation. She pursued her ideas of teaching and learning in private and public schools, alternative programs, minimum-security facilities and colleges around the country.

Under the tutelage of Professor Reuven Feuerstein in Israel, she has becomed a Certified Trainer of Instrumental Enrichment (IE), an intervention cognitive program. She is also trained in the Learning Propensity Assessment Device (LPAD).

For the past ten years, she has worked as a certified IE trainer for the Boston Annenberg Challenge, as a consultant in the Boston, New York, Washington, Illinois, Missouri, and Washington, DC public school systems, featured n the Mind Of A Child, the award-winning Canadian educational film, presenter at conferences across the country and Israel, trainer for state agencies and the private work sector as well as a college professor at Cambridge College (NITE) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As an older, wiser, accomplished educator, Lettie continues to be nourished and inspired as an independent educator.