In terms of specific uses of lean in schools to assist with continuous improvement, problems such as ineffective remediation, the lack of developmentally appropriate learning opportunities for students, and inadequate funding provide excellent opportunities for exploring lean thinking and applications. Consider, for example, the concerns expressed over standardized testing and what this means for culturally diverse populations. In terms of lean thinking, the basis for a successful lean enterprise is, in fact, founded on the utmost respect for all stakeholders, especially the employees and the customers, per Taiichi Ohno, the architect of the Toyota Production System, as described by Liker and Hoseus (2008). This means that lean organizations devote time and resources to understanding what is of value to those various stakeholders and then improving their systems to better meet those needs. For culturally diverse students, especially those at risk, our response in education has largely been of the mindset of remediation of students—“let’s fix these students!” Lean thinking is in opposition to remediation processes for students and supports in its place improvement of instructional processes. What is proposed in lean approaches is to fix the root cause of the problem in processes, rather than “fixing” people. Lean problem solving focuses on engaging people to identify process improvements and to create those solutions as a “Let’s fix the processes that do not work for these students!” approach. Lean does not use a one-way standardized formula derived from the top-down, but rather in- house solutions. So then, lean could be extremely helpful for students who suffer at the hands of the shortcomings of our current educational system. The tools of lean allow stakeholders to examine the educational system closely, develop collaborative solutions and participate in continuous improvement processes (Villareal, 2011; Brown, 2011). For the inequities in education that plague some of our students, lean is a viable process improvement approach to be considered.