Diane Lapp lapp@mail.sdsu.edu

Diane Lapp, Professor of Reading and Language in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, has taught in elementary and middle schools.  Dr. Lapp who codirects and teaches field based preservice and graduate courses spent her recent sabbatical  team teaching in a public school first grade classroom. Dr. Lapp has coauthored and edited many articles, columns, texts, handbooks and children’s materials on reading and language arts issues. These include the following two which were codeveloped with James Flood: Teaching Reading to Every Child a reading methods textbook in its fourth edition; and The Handbook of Research in Teaching the English Language Arts, second  edition soon to be released. She has also chaired and cochaired several IRA and NRC 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, a member of the California Reading Hall of Fame, and IRA’s 1996 Outstanding Teacher Educator of the Year. Dr. Lapp is the coeditor of California’s major literacy  journal The California Reader.