USA: Alabama; Alaska; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Hawaii; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York City; New York; North Carolina; North Dakota; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virginia; Washington, DC; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin; Wyoming
USA Territories: American Samoa (USA); Guam (USA); Puerto Rico (USA); Virgin Islands (USA); Northern Mariana Islands (USA)
USA Compact Free Associations: Marshall Islands (USA) Republic of Palau (USA)
Canada: Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador; Northwest Territories; Nova Scotia; Nunavut; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Quebec; Saskatchewan; Yukon
Israel
International country outside of the USA, Israel and Canada.
Award to honor and recognize a USA or international individual for outstanding contributions as a leader within the field of reading. The awardee must be a member of the funding source and must demonstrate an excellent influence on students, teachers, colleagues, children, and parents through instruction, lectures, writings, and/or research.
The awardee must also demonstrate the following characteristics:
(A) Initiation and development of original ideas that have increased knowledge and understanding of the reading process and/or improved practices in reading instruction and development;
(B) Selfless dedication and tireless efforts, encouragement and inspiration, unassuming devotion; service as a prophet (rather than a profiteer) in furthering the development of the field of reading;
(C) Outstanding contributions to the design and implementation of reading courses; outstanding lectures, over a long period, for reading professionals;
(D) The production of definitive material or important restructuring of existing material with exhaustive coverage of the given field, and outstanding contributions from the point of view of communication - brilliant pedagogy in print; and
(E) Superior service in several important capacities in reading, e.g. as teacher, scholar, researcher, psychologist, linguist, supervisor, author, lecturer, critic, administrator, counselor, or clinician.
For additional information, contact committees@reading.org.
Mailing Address:
International Reading Association
IRA William S. Gray Citation of Merit
800 Barksdale Road
Newark, DE 19711