Honors and Awards
2020
2019
2018
2014
2012
2011
2009
2007
2005
2004
2003
2000
1999
1997
1995
1991-1996
1991
1987
1975
1973
- Spencer Foundation Mentoring Award
- AACTE Best Book Award for Reclaiming Accountability
2019
- AERA Division K Exemplary Research Award for Reclaiming Accountability
- Annual Book Award, American Association of University Professors for Reclaiming Accountability
- NEERO Ambassador Award, distinguished mentoring and keynote presentations, April 2019
2018
- Reclaiming Accountability, named a Critics' Choice Award (American Educational Studies Association), 2018
- American Educational Research Association Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Legacy Award, March 15, 2018
2014
- Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award of the Literacy Research Association, December 4, 2014
- Bjorn Christiansen Memorial Lecturer. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, October 2014
2012
- Honorary Doctorate. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, November 30, 2012
- Doctor Honoris Causa. University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, January 27, 2012
2011
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education David C. Imig Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education for Inquiry as Stance (M. Cochran-Smith and S.L. Lytle)
2009
- National Academy of Education Elected Member
2007
- AERA (American Education Research Association) 2007 Annual Award for Relating Research to Practice: Interpretive Scholarship for Policy, Practice and Politics in Teacher Education (Corwin, 2006)
- AACTE (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education) 2006 Annual Award for Best Publication on Teaching and Teacher Education for Studying Teacher Education (M. Cochran-Smith & K. Zeichner, Eds.) (Erlbaum/AERA)
- C.J. Koh Endowed Distinguished Professorship Inaugural holder of National Institute of Education’s Koh Chair, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2005
- New York State Association of Teacher Educators/New York Association of Colleges for Teacher Education First Annual Impact Award for outstanding contributions to the field
2004
- John E. Cawthorne Chair in Teacher Education for Urban Schools Inaugural holder of Boston College’s Cawthorne endowed chair in teacher education
- Carl Grant Multicultural Education Research Award National Association for Multicultural Education’s (NAME) award for outstanding contributions for multicultural research
- Edward C. Pomeroy Award AACTE’s highest honor for outstanding contributions to the field of teacher education
- Distinguished Service AwardNew England Education Research Organization award for service to the organization and mentoring of student researchers
2003
- Elected to the Laureate Chapter of the KDP international education honor society
- Elected by Membership of the American Educational Research Association. (President Elect, 2003-04; President, 2004-05; Immediate Past President, 2005-06)
2000
- Boston College Award for Outstanding Research University-wide Senior Faculty Award for Distinguished Research
1999
- Margaret Lindsay Award for Distinguished Research in Teaching and Teacher Education
- AACTE award for outstanding research in the field of teacher education over a period of at least a decade
1997
- AERA Division K Annual Award for Outstanding Research in Teacher Education For “Uncertain Allies: Understanding the Boundaries of Race and Teaching” (published in Harvard Educational Review)
- ATE (Association of Teacher Educators) 1997 Annual Award for Outstanding Research in Teacher Education for “Uncertain Allies: Understanding the Boundaries of Race and Teaching” (published in Harvard Educational Review)
1995
- AACTE (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education) 1995 Annual Award for Excellence in Professional Writing in Teaching and Teacher Education for Inside/Outside: Teacher Research and Knowledge (TC Press)
1991-1996
- Joseph L. Calihan Chair in Education (endowed term chair), Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania
1991
- NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Richard C. Meade Award for Distinguished Research in English Education For Learning to Write Differently (Ablex)
1987
- Graduate School of Education Award for Excellence in Instruction Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
1975
- Outstanding Young Educator, Brecksville-Broadview Heights School System, Brecksville, Ohio
1973
- Phi Beta Kappa