Honors and Awards

2020
  • Spencer Foundation Mentoring Award 
  • AACTE Best Book Award for Reclaiming Accountability 
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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)

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