

She recently gave the keynote address at the MOFET Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel and the New England Educational Research Association in April 2019. Cochran-Smith is also a frequent keynote presenter nationally and internationally. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education.ĭr. Lindsey Award for Research in Teacher Education, and the Edward C. Imig Award for Achievement in Teacher Education, the Margaret B. Over the span of her career, she has received many other awards, including AERA’s Research to Practice Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Literacy Research Association, the Carl Grant Research Award from the National Association of Multicultural Education, and all of the major awards from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), including the David G. She was awarded the AERA Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Legacy Award in 2019.

Cochran-Smith has received two honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland, and the University of Alicante in Alicante, Spain, in recognition of her international work in teacher education research, practice and policy. Cochran-Smith is a former AERA President, an inaugural AERA Fellow, and an elected member of the National Academy of Education. Cochran-Smith also co-edited (with Sharon Feiman Nemser, John McIntyre, and Kelly Demers) the Third Handbook of Research on Teacher Education: Enduring Questions in Changing Contexts, which was published in 2008.Ī frequently honored scholar, Dr. Cochran-Smith has written nine other books, six of which have won national awards, and more than 200 articles, chapters, and editorials related to teacher education. From 2000-2006, she was the chief editor of the Journal of Teacher Education. The book won four awards and was named a Critics' Choice for 2018 by the American Educational Studies Association.

Cochran-Smith and Project TEER published Reclaiming Accountability in Teacher Education(Teachers College Press) in April 2018. Most recently, Professor Cochran-Smith was the principal investigator for a Spencer Foundation funded research project about teacher preparation at “new graduate schools of education” and the leader of Project TEER (Teacher Education and Education Reform, click link for Project Page), which explored the impact and implications of the education reform movement for teacher education practice and policy. Dr. Cochran-Smith is widely known for her scholarship regarding teacher education research, practice and policy and for her sustained commitment to teaching and teacher education for diversity and social justice. A teacher, education scholar and practitioner for more than 40 years, Dr. program in Curriculum and Instruction from 1996-2017.

MARILYN COCHRAN-SMITH is the Cawthorne Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College, in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
