Writing and Research Awards

AACTE presents the following Writing and Research Awards. These awards are overseen and selected by the Committee on Research and Dissemination.

Outstanding Book Award

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.

Recent winners:

Millennial Teachers of Color by Mary E. Dilworth
Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me by Marcelle Haddix
Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice by Eva Zygmunt and Patricia Clark
Rethinking Field Experiences in Preservice Teacher Preparation: Meeting New Challenges for Accountability by Etta Hollins (Ed.)
Education and Democracy in the 21st Century by Nel Noddings

Outstanding Dissertation Award

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:

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
(Re)constituting Teacher Identity for Inclusion in Urban Schools: A Process of Reification and Resistance by Molly Baustien Siuty, University of Kansas
The Effects of Guided Video Analysis on Teacher Candidates” Reflective Ability and Instructional Skills by Sarah A. Nagro, Johns Hopkins University
#Learningtoteach: Using Instagram to Elicit Pre-service Teacher Reflection by Monica T. Billen, University of Tennessee
“Students Drive Where I Go Next”: Ambitious Practice, Beginning Teacher Learning, and Classroom Epistemic Communities by David Stroupe, University of Washington

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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:

“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
“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)
“The Roles of Urban Indigenous Community Members in Collaborative Field-Based Teacher Preparation” by Anna Lees, Western Washington University
“Field Placement Schools and Instructional Effectiveness” by Matthew Ronfeldt, University of Michigan
“Unpacking the “Urban” in Urban Teacher Education: Making a Case for Context-Specific Preparation” by Kavita Kapadia Matsko and Karen Hammerness

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2020 AACTE Awards

Award winners will be honored at the 2020 AACTE Annual Meeting, February 28 – March 1 in Atlanta, Georgia, during the general sessions.

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Awards Highlights

Outstanding Book Award

Outstanding Dissertation Award

Outstanding JTE Article Award

2020 AACTE Awards