The Wisniewski Award is named for Richard Wisniewski, Past president and treasurer of SPE, past president of AACTE 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.

Wisniewski Award Recipients

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2009.

Architects of Change, The John H. Lounsbury School of Education, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, 2008

Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 2007

Institute for Educational Inquiry, Seattle, Washington, 2006

Southern Maine Partnership, University of Southern Maine, 2005

Urban Teacher Education Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2004

Master in Teaching (MIT) Program, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 2003

Department of Education, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 2002

Bank Street College of Education, New York, 2001

Collaborative Teacher Education Program for Urban Communities of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2000