Awards Program

This award, overseen by AACTE’s Committee on Global Diversity, recognizes the infusion of diversity throughout all components of a school, college, or department of education (SCDE) as critical to quality educator preparation and professional development. Specifically, the incorporation of issues related to culture, language, demographics, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic status, and exceptionalities in the education process are perceived as important. Nominees must be from AACTE member institutions.

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This promising practice award, overseen by AACTE’s Programmatic Advisory Committee on Educator Diversity (PACED), recognizes a promising practice from an educator preparation program (EPP) or department within a school or college of education. The selection is based on the demonstration of outcomes and advocacy related to various activities, practices, programs, pedagogies, systems and/or policies that lead to, or are likely to lead to, an increase in educator diversity.

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This award recognizes exemplary practice in the intercultural, global, cross-cultural, and international arenas. It is overseen by AACTE’s Committee on Global Diversity as part of its mission to assure that a global/international perspective is brought to policy and programs associated with the preparation of education professionals. Nominees must be members of AACTE.

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This award, overseen by AACTE’s Committee on Innovation and Technology, recognizes an innovative use of educational technologies in an AACTE member school, college, or department of education (SCDE).

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This award, overseen by the AACTE Holmes Programmatic Advisory Committee, recognizes Holmes Program institutions that demonstrate exemplary and innovative practices in supporting graduate students of color resulting in increased productivity of its scholars.

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The Margaret B. Lindsey Award, overseen by the AACTE Board of Directors recognizes distinguished achievement in research over the last decade that has had a major impact on the field of educator preparation. Lindsey was a longtime professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, whose own writing and research had a tremendous and lasting impact on the field.

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This award, overseen by the AACTE Board of Directors, recognizes an individual for distinguished achievement in the field of policy and/or research related to policy in educator preparation. The career achievement acknowledged by this award must take place in the formulation, implementation, research, or analysis of educator preparation policy. The award is named for AACTE President/CEO Emeritus David G. Imig, who led the Association from 1980 to 2005.

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This award, overseen by the AACTE Board of Directors, recognizes outstanding contributions to educator preparation, either through distinguished service to the educator preparation community or through the development and promotion of outstanding practices in educator preparation at the collegiate, state, or national level. It is named for Edward C. Pomeroy, who was AACTE’s executive director from 1952 to 1980.

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This award, overseen by the AACTE Committee on Research and Dissemination and sponsored by SAGE Publications, recognizes exemplary scholarship published in the Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) in the areas of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation. The editors of the JTE will submit their awardee nominations for consideration by the Committee on Research and Dissemination.

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This award, overseen by the AACTE Committee on Research and Dissemination, recognizes exemplary books that make a significant contribution to the knowledge base of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation.

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This award, overseen by AACTE’s Committee on Research and Dissemination, recognizes excellence in doctoral dissertation research (or its equivalent) that contributes to the knowledge base of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation.

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