This award, established in 2004, honors and carries on the work of Professor John Chorlton Manning. The award is intended to encourage and support the improvement of public education by recognizing the importance of integrating teacher preparation, professional development, and related research with the work of public schools, classrooms, teachers, and students.

The IRA John Chorlton Manning Public School Service Award is open to college- and university-based teacher educators with a record of effective preparation of reading teachers and graduate students. Professors of reading education who have demonstrated their commitment to public education and who spend significant time working with public school teachers and their students in classrooms demonstrating effective approaches and techniques shown to improve reading instruction are eligible.

This award is no longer available.  For more information, please contact thee Executive Office.

2011

Diane Lapp, EdD

Diane Lapp, EdD, Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, has taught in the elementary and middle grades, and currently in high school as an English/literacy teacher. Her major areas of research and instruction regard issues related to struggling readers and writers who live in economically deprived settings, their families, and their teachers. Dr. Lapp who teaches field based preservice and graduate courses at SDSU is also a peer coach at the high school where she teaches. Currently a coeditor of Voices From The Middle, published by NCTE, Dr. Lapp has also authored, coauthored and edited many articles, columns, texts, handbooks and children’s materials on reading and language arts issues and has also chaired and cochaired several IRA and LRA committees. Her many educational awards include being named as the Outstanding Teacher Educator and Faculty Member in the Department of Teacher Education at SDSU, the Distinguished Research Lecturer from SDSU’s Graduate Division of Research, and IRA’s 1996 Outstanding Teacher Educator of the Year. Dr. Lapp is also a member of both the California and the International Reading Halls of Fame. She can be reached at lapp@mail.sdsu.edu.