IRA/Weekly Reader Eleanor M. Johnson Award

Doris Coffey

Doris Coffey is an early elementary reading specialist in a public school in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Huntington College in Indiana. The first thirty years of her career were spent in Michigan where she taught grades K-3 and later served as Reading Recovery teacher and literacy coach. It was there that she earned a master’s degree from Michigan State University, and later became a certified Reading Recovery teacher through Ohio State. Now as a reading specialist in a Title I school in Tennessee, she teaches literacy training to teachers and strategic reading interventions to students in grades K-6.