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AACTE Awards Program

2022 AACTE Awards

The AACTE Awards Program recognizes excellence in both member institutions and individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of educator preparation. In identifying notable programs, practices, activities, writing, and research, these awards encourage all member institutions to strengthen the profession of teacher preparation through innovation, high standards, and leadership.

For more information about these award categories, click here.

To submit an award nomination, click here.

The 2021 award recipients were honored during the virtual AACTE 73rd Annual Meeting, February 24 – 26. For an overview of the 2021 award winners, see this press release

AACTE Award Categories

Innovative Use of Technology

Deadline to apply: October 8, 2021

To nominate someone, click here. Award winners will be honored at the 2022 AACTE Annual Meeting, March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

This award, sponsored by AACTE’s Committee on Innovation and Technology, recognizes an innovative use of educational technologies in a school, college, or department of education.

Recent winners:

University of South Florida, for Integration of Cybersecurity Instruction (2021)
Salisbury University (2020)
University of Central Arkansas (2019)
Northeastern State University (2018)

Global and International Perspectives

Deadline to apply: October 8, 2021

To nominate someone, click here. Award winners will be honored at the 2022 AACTE Annual Meeting, March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

This award recognizes exemplary practice in the intercultural, global, cross-cultural, and international arenas. It is sponsored 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.

Recent winners:

Multicultural Education and Diversity

Deadline to apply: October 8, 2021

To nominate someone, click here. Award winners will be honored at the 2022 AACTE Annual Meeting, March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

This award, sponsored 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 teacher 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.

Recent winners:

Research in Teacher Education

Deadline to apply: October 8, 2021

To nominate someone, click here. Award winners will be honored at the 2022 AACTE Annual Meeting, March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

The Margaret B. Lindsey Award recognizes an individual whose research over the last decade has made a major impact on the field of teacher education.

Recent winners:

James Hiebert, University of Delaware (2017)
Jeanne Wilcox, Arizona State University (2013)

Achievement in Teacher Education

Deadline to apply: October 8, 2021

To nominate someone, click here. Award winners will be honored at the 2022 AACTE Annual Meeting, March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

The David G. Imig Award recognizes distinguished achievement in the field of policy or research in teacher education. The recipient(s) of this award need not be from an AACTE member institution or otherwise affiliated with AACTE, although there should be an obvious connection between the achievement recognized and AACTE’s mission and work.

Recent winners:

Contributions to Teacher Education

Deadline to apply: October 8, 2021

To nominate someone, click here. Award winners will be honored at the 2022 AACTE Annual Meeting, March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

he Edward C. Pomeroy Award recognizes outstanding contributions to teacher education, either through distinguished service to the teacher education community or through the development and promotion of outstanding practices in teacher education at the collegiate, state, or national level.

Recent winners:

Outstanding Book Award

Deadline to apply: May 14, 2021

To nominate someone, click here. Award winners will be honored at the 2022 AACTE Annual Meeting, March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

This award recognizes as exemplary books that make a significant contribution to the knowledge base of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation. AACTE will accept ebooks should your warehouse not be able to ship hard copies by the deadline

Recent winners:

Science in the City: Culturally Relevant STEM Education by Bryan A. Brown (2021)
Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education (2020)
Millennial Teachers of Color by Mary E. Dilworth (2019)
Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me by Marcelle Haddix (2018)

Outstanding Dissertation Award

Deadline to apply: August 20, 2021

To nominate someone, click here. Award winners will be honored at the 2022 AACTE Annual Meeting, March 4-6 in New Orleans, LA.

This award recognizes excellence in doctoral dissertation research that contributes to the knowledge base of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation.

Recent winners:

“Bringing Clarity to the Construct: A Content Analysis of Disposition for Urban Teaching and Learning” by Sarah Mia Obiwo, University of Memphis (2021)
“Youth as Teacher Educators: Supporting Preservice Teachers in Developing Youth Centered, Equity-Oriented Science Teaching Practices” by Christina Restrepo Nazar, California State University Los Angeles (2020)
“Preparing Pre-service Teachers for Working with Linguistically Diverse Students: Examining University Teacher Preparation Programs Across the United States” by Emily Evans Fanaeian, Edgewood College (2019)
“(Re)constituting Teacher Identity for Inclusion in Urban Schools: A Process of Reification and Resistance” by Molly Baustien Siuty, University of Kansas (2018)

Outstanding JTE Article Award

This award, cosponsored by Sage, recognizes exemplary scholarship published in the Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) in the area of educator preparation or of teaching and learning with implications for educator preparation.

Recent winners:

“Re-thinking High Leverage Practices in Justice-Oriented Ways” by Angela Calabrese Barton, University of Michigan; Edna Tan, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and Daniel J. Birmingham, Colorado State University (2021)
“Critically Compassionate Intellectualism in Teacher Education: The Contributions of Relational-Cultural Theory” by Amy Rector-Aranda, Texas A&M University (2020)
“Why Seek the Living Among the Dead? African American Pedagogical Excellence: Exemplar Practice for Teacher Education” by Melanie M. Acosta, University of Alabama; Michele Foster, University of Louisville; and Diedre F. Houchen, University of Florida (2019)
“Capturing the Complex, Situated, and Active Nature of Teaching Through Inquiry-Oriented Standards for Teaching” by Claire Sinnema, Frauke Meyer, and Graeme Aitken, University of Auckland (New Zealand) (2018)