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Ray Reutzel is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Wyoming. Prior to his current position, he was the Emma Eccles Jones Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair of Early Literacy Education at Utah State University, a position he held for 14 years. He is the author of more than 230 published research reports in top tier research journals, articles, books, book chapters and monographs. He is the coauthor of the best-selling textbook on the teaching of reading, Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the Difference, 8th Edition published by Pearson. He has received more than 17 million dollars in research/professional development grant funding. He has been active in securing legislative and private foundations gifts in excess of 40 million dollars. He is the past Editor of Literacy Research and Instruction and The Reading Teacher and is the current Executive Editor of the Journal of Educational Research. He received the 1999 A.B. Herr Award and the 2013 ALER Laureate Award from the Association of Literacy Researchers and Educators. Ray served as President of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, ALER, from 2006 to 2007. He was presented the John C. Manning Public School Service Award from the International Reading Association, May 2007 in Toronto, Canada and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association from 2007 to 2010. Ray was a member of the Literacy Research Association's Board of Directors from 2012-2015. Dr. Reutzel was elected a member of the Reading Hall of Fame in 2011 and is serving as its President from 2017 to 2019. Ray was also recently named as a member of the International Literacy Association's prestigious Literacy Research Panel from 2018 to 2021. He is also an author of school-based literacy instructional materials with Curriculum Associates.

Dr. Robert B. Cooter, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of literacy education at Bellarmine University. His continuing work focuses on ways of improving education for children living at the poverty level. Cooter previously served as editor of The Reading Teacher (International Literacy Association) and has also coauthored with D. Ray Reutzel Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the Difference, 8th Edition and The Flynt/Cooter Comprehensive Reading Inventory-2 (CRI-2) with E. Sutton Flynt and Kathleen S. Cooter.

In the public schools, Dr. Cooter previously served as the “Reading Czar” (associate superintendent) for the Dallas Independent School District (TX) leading their massive literacy initiative and was named a Texas State Champion for Reading. Drs. Robert and Kathleen Spencer Cooter received the Urban Impact Award from the Council of Great City Schools for their work designing and implementing highly effective training programs for teachers of reading serving children in low SES elementary schools in Dallas and Memphis. Later, Cooter and his team were awarded a $16 million academic literacy research project in Memphis funded by the US Department of Education. Cooter now resides in Texas and enjoys spending time with his bride of 20+ years, and their dogs, friends and grandkids on their houseboat, Our Last Child.

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