2008 Wisniewski Award for Teacher Education
Awarded to the John H. Lounsbury College of Education
The Wisniewski Award is named for Richard Wisniewski, past president and treasurer of The Society of Professors of Education, past president of AACTE (American Association for Colleges for Teacher Education) and former Dean of the College of Education at the University of Tennessee. The purpose of the award is to recognize an institution that has made "singularly significant contributions to the theory and practice of teacher education." This award is awarded annually. The John H. Lounsbury College of Education received the Wisniewski Award for for Architects of Change--Creating a Culture of Leadership:
Undergraduate Cohort Teacher Education Program.
Wisniewski Award Recipients | |
| 2008 | Architects of Change, The John H. Lounsbury College of Education, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia |
| 2007 | Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts |
| 2006 | Institute for Educational Inquiry, Seattle, Washington |
| 2005 | Southern Maine Partnership, University of Southern Maine |
| 2004 | Urban Teacher Education Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| 2003 | Master in Teaching (MIT) Program, Evergreen State University, Olympia, Washington |
| 2002 | Department of Education, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2001 | Bank Street College of Education, New York |
| 2001 | Collaborative Teacher Education Program for Urban Communities of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
History of the Society of Professors of Education
John Dewey (1859-1952) of the University of Chicago, Paul Henry Hanus (1855-1941) of Harvard, and Walter B. Jacobs (1861-1932) of Brown University were founding members of the Society in 1902 as were James Earl Russell (1864-1945) and Frank McMurry (1862-1936) of Teachers College, Columbia University, Charles DeGarmo (1849-1934) of Cornell University, and Michael Vincent O'Shea (1866-1932) of the University of Wisconsin.
William Heard Kilpatrick (1871-1965) was also a member of
the organization.
Sources:
Society of Professors of Education website. SPE Awards. Retrieved July 15, 2009, from http://www.unm.edu/~spe/spe_wisniewski.html
Armstrong, J. A Brief History of the Society Professors of Education. Professing Education. Retrieved July 15, 2009 from http://profed.brocku.ca/docs/vol4/num2/anum1.htm
