UT Tyler Education Professor Earns International Service Award

TYLER — Dr. Kouider Mokhtari has received the 2014 John C. Manning Public School Service Award from the International Reading Association. Mokhtari serves as the Anderson-Vukelja-Wright Endowed Professor of Education within the UT Tyler School of Education and chair of the Tyler Area Partnership for Literacy. “I’m honored to be recognized by students, public school leaders and literacy professionals for the work I have done to promote and support literacy at the university school and community levels,” Mokhtari said. “I am also honored to join a prestigious group of international literacy experts who have contributed in meaningful and significant ways to advancing literacy within schools and communities around the world.”

The IRA Manning Public School Service Award recognizes a professor of reading education who has demonstrated their commitment to public education and has spent significant time working with public school teachers and their students in classrooms demonstrating effective approaches and techniques shown to improve reading instruction. Eligibility is open tocollege- and university-based teacher educators with a record of effective preparation of reading teachers and graduate students. He was recognized at the IRA 59th Annual Convention on May 11 in New Orleans.

Mokhtari regularly works in public schools to help enhance instructional practices and improve students’ literacy achievement outcomes