Awards Program

2025 Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award Winner:
Authors Patricia A. Edwards, Ph.D., Michigan State University; Kristin L. White, Ph.D., Northern Michigan University; Laura J. Hopkins, Ph.D., Life International School in Spain; and Ann M. Castle, Ph.D., Michigan State University, “Teaching with Literacy Programs”

2024 Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award Winner:
David Stroupe, Ph.D., author, “Growing and Sustaining Student-Centered Science Classrooms”

2023 Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award Winner:
Leslie Fenwick, author, Jim Crow’s Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal And Teacher Leadership

2025 James D. Anderson Outstanding Dissertation Award Winner:
Maya Kaul, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

2024 James D. Anderson Outstanding Dissertation Award Winner:
Mariah Deans Harmon, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, College of Education at Pennsylvania State University

2023 James D. Anderson Outstanding Dissertation Award Winner:
Lightning Peter Jay, Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching Learning and Educational Leadership, Binghamton University

2025 Martin Haberman Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) Article Award Winner:
“Different Methods for Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Instruction: Why Measures Matter” by authors Arielle Boguslav, Ph.D., Annenberg Institute at Brown University, and Julie Cohen, Ph.D., University of Virginia School of Education & Human Development

2024 Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education Article Award Winner:
“Developing an Equity-Centered Practice: Teacher Study Groups in the Preservice Context,” by authors Allison Firestone, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Rebecca Cruz, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Darcie Massey, University of California, Berkeley

2023 Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education Article Award Winner:
“Toward a Healthy Racial Climate: Systemically Centering the Well-being of Teacher Candidates of Color,” by authors Rita Kohli, University of California Riverside; Alison G. Dover, California State University Fullerton; Uma Mazyck Jayakumar, University of California Riverside; Darlene Lee, University of California Los Angeles; Nick Henning, California State University Fullerton; Eddie Comeaux, University of California Riverside; Arturo Nevárez, California State University, Stanislaus, (formerly, University of California Riverside); Emma Hipolito, University of California Los Angeles; Andrea Carreno Cortez, University of Washington (formerly, University of California Riverside); and Margarita Vizcarra, University of California Riverside

2025 Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity Winner: 
University of Dayton’s School of Education and Health Sciences, Department of Teacher Education

2024 Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity Winner:
New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s Teacher Residency

2023 Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity Winner:
Urban Social Justice Teacher Education Program at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education

2025 Increasing Educator Diversity: Promising Practice Award Winner:
Miami University’s College of Education, Health & Society, TEACh (Transformative Educators Advocating Change) program

2024 Increasing Educator Diversity: Promising Practice Award
University of Northern Colorado’s Center for Urban Education

2025 Best Practice Award in Support of Global and International Perspectives Winner:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of Reading and Elementary Education

2024 Best Practice Award in Support of Global and International Perspectives Winner:
Howard University (HU) School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction

2023 Best Practice Award in Support of Global and International Perspectives Winner:
College of Education, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign iGlobal Program

2025 Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology Winner:
Temple University’s College of Education & Human Development

2024 Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology Winner:
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)

2023 Best Practice Award for the Innovative Use of Technology Winner:
Kansas State University College of Education

2024 Best Practice Award for Exemplary Holmes Program:
University of Central Florida

2023 Outstanding Holmes Institution Award Winner:
Florida Atlantic University

2025 Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Winner:
Andrew Kwok, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University

2024 Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Winner:
Sarah McCarthey, Ph.D., Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2023 Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Winner:
H. Richard Milner IV, Vanderbilt Peabody College of Education and Human Development

2025 David G. Imig Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teacher Education Winner:
Mary Vixie Sandy, Ed.D., executive director of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing

2024 David G. Imig Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teacher Education Winner:
Jane West, Ph.D., former AACTE Senior Vice President

2023 David G. Imig Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teacher Education Winner:
AACTE Advisory Council of State Representatives

2025 Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education Winner: 
Wanda J. Blanchett, Ph.D., distinguished professor and former dean, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education

2024 Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education Winner: Kimberly A. White-Smith, Ed.D., Dean and Professor, School of Leadership and Education Sciences, University of San Diego, Vice President of the California Council on Teacher Education

2023 Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education Winner: Cassandra P. Herring, President and CEO, Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity