ATE | Awards

Awards & Scholarships

Distinguished ATE Member Award

Award • Submission Deadline: December 1

Award exemplifies the best of teacher education in this nation, which includes outstanding contributions to ATE; outstanding contributions to teacher education; and professional, academic, and ethical standards.

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Distinguished Clinician in Teacher Education Award

Award • Submission Deadline: October 15

Award established to recognize and honor school-based teacher educators whose work in a clinical environment helps teachers become better at what they do.

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Distinguished Dissertation in Teacher Education Award

Award • Submission Deadline: September 30

Award intent is to encourage, recognize, and promote exemplary doctoral level research that substantially contributes to the improvement of teacher education.

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Billy G. Dixon Distinguished Program in Teacher Education Award

Award • Submission Deadline: October 1

Award established to recognize and honor outstanding teacher education programs that exemplify collaboration between local education agencies and institutions of higher education in program development and administration.

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Robert F. Schuck Distinguished Research in Teacher Education Award

Award • Submission Deadline: July 1

Award established to recognize and promote exceptional research that substantially contributes to the improvement of teacher education.

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Duaine C. Lang Distinguished Mentoring Award

Award • Submission Deadline: July 1

Award established to recognize leaders who have outstanding contributions in mentoring students and others into ATE and other leadership positions.

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Hans C. Olsen Distinguished Teacher Educator Award

Award • Submission Deadline: July 25

Award established to select and honor those individuals whose contributions to the preparation of teachers is worthy of special recognition.

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Marilyn Nicholas National Student Teacher of the Year Award

Award • Submission Deadline: June 30

This prestigious award recognizes one student teacher-intern annually who has demonstrated the ability to plan and develop classroom management skills and instructional strategies that support all students; establish interpersonal relationships with students, parents, faculty, and staff; and reflect on the teaching and learning process.

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Prestigious NSTOY Award
Renamed in Honor of
Dr. Marilyn Nicholas
(March 2025) | Read More

John P. Sikula State Unit Awards

Award • Submission Deadline: January 2

Award program recognizes the efforts and accomplishments of affiliated units across the country. ATE units provide essential services and programs at the local and state levels, thereby supporting the national organization’s mission and goals. These awards are a vehicle for ATE to provide visibility and distinction to units that fulfill the performance criteria indicated.

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Peggy Wittliff Newcomers Award

Award • Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Award purpose is to assist a public school teacher (P-12 school-based educator), who is a newcomer, to attend his or her second ATE Annual Meeting, immediately following their first ATE conference.

Marcia Swiatek Newcomers Award

Award • Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Award purpose is to assist a higher education teacher educator, who is a newcomer, to attend his or her second ATE Annual Meeting, immediately following their first ATE conference.

Taylor and Frances Journal Article Awards for The New Educator (TNE) and Action in Teacher Education (ACTION)

Award • Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Each year, TNE and ACTION editors nominate top articles published in their journal that year for consideration of this award. The ATE Professional Publications Committee reviews the nominees and selects the recipients.

ATE Mid-Career Award (New 2022)

Award • Submission Deadline: December 1

Award recognizes individuals who represent the best of teacher education, which includes evident contributions to ATE; outstanding contributions to teacher education; and demonstration of professional, academic, and ethical standards. Nominees should have at least 5 yrs of consecutive membership in ATE at the national level and 7 yrs. in their professional career.

Leadership Foundation for Teacher Education (LFTE) | Education Grants

Grant • Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Grants are intended to develop articulation with the national ATE Office, the Board of Directors, and with relevant Standing Committees, Commissions & Task Forces to further the mission of ATE.

Anne Gayles-Felton Endowed Scholarship (LFTE Award)

Scholarship • Submission Deadline: July 15

Scholarship awarded to a secondary education undergraduate student who shows promise not only as a prospective teacher but as a future teacher educator.

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Robert J. Stevenson Memorial Scholarship

Scholarship • Submission Deadline: July 15

Scholarship established to assist a classroom teacher working towards an advanced degree to enhance teacher leadership skills through the study of teaching. Applicants taking coursework leading to National Board of Professional Teaching Standards certification are encouraged to apply, as are those engaged in the study of curriculum and instruction and/or supervision.
Scholarship funded by LFTE

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