2026 Distinguished Paper Award
The Leadership Team of the Supervision & Instructional Leadership SIG (#51) of the 熊猫视频, is听pleased to announce that Patrick Ocran and Alyson L. Lavigne听have been selected as recipients of the SIG鈥檚 2026 Distinguished Paper Award for their co-authored manuscript, Empowering Mathematics Teacher Development: The Necessity of Content-Specific Supervision and Feedback, published this year in Theory into Practice.
The Distinguished Paper Award recognizes outstanding research that advances the knowledge base of supervision and instructional leadership and makes a meaningful contribution to both theory and practice in the field. Their听work exemplifies these aims through its advocacy of the importance of content-specific supervision and feedback for both pre- and in-service teacher development, and evidence that such feedback offers unique benefits for promoting teachers鈥� growth and development in ways that general/generic supervisory feedback may not provide.
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Patrick Ocran is a PhD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction (Mathematics Education and Leadership) and a Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow at Utah State University. His research focuses on mathematics teacher positioning, classroom discourse, mathematical identity, teacher supervision, and STEM pathways.
Alyson Lavigne is an associate professor of School Leadership at Utah State University. Her research focuses on teacher retention, teachers鈥� beliefs, teacher supervision and evaluation, and culturally and linguistically minoritized students鈥� experiences.
听SIG AWARDS
The Supervision & Instructional Leadership SIG awards scholars in the field through the Distinguished Paper Award and the Distinguished Achievement Award.听
The Distinguished Paper Award recognizes research achievements and encourages high quality research that adds substantially to the knowledge base to theory and practice in the field of supervision and instructional leadership.
The Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes scholars who have made career-long, significant contributions to the field of supervision and instructional leadership. Their contributions may include, but are not limited to, scholarship via advancing theoretical and conceptual understandings and/or empirical research as documented in various publication materials; teaching and mentoring graduate students and early career scholars; practicing supervision and instructional leadership, and so on.
Award winners are recognized at the Annual Meeting during the SIG鈥檚 business meeting and will receive a plaque in recognition of their accomplishments.
Beginning in 2026, the SIG will offer Graduate Student Travel Awards to graduate students who show promise in the field of instructional supervision through their research, teaching, and/or practice.
A list of previous award winners going as far back as 2019 are listed below.
Previous Award Winners
2026 Graduate Student Travel Award
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2025 Distinguished Achievement Award
No award given.
2024 Distinguished Paper Award
Brendan M. Butler (Old Dominion University), Rebecca West Burns (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania), and Craig J. Willey (Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis), "" published in the Journal of Educational Supervision听听
2023 Distinguished Achievement Award
Mary Lynne Derrington (University of Tennessee)听
2022 Distinguished Paper Award
Dwayne Ray Cormier (Virginia Commonwealth University), 鈥溾�� published in the Journal of Educational Supervision
2021 Distinguished Achievement Award
Bernard J. Badiali (The Pennsylvania State University) was selected to receive the Distinguished Achievement Award for his contribution to the fields of supervision and Professional Development Schools, and for his unwavering commitment to the Supervision and Instructional Leadership SIG.听 Dr. Badiali has served as mentor to many doctoral students and junior faculty through his years of service to our SIG.
2020 Distinguished Paper Award
Jo Beth Jimerson and Sarah Quebec Fuentes (Texas Christian University), "The Role of Leadership Content Knowledge in the Provision of Instructional Feedback"听
2019 Distinguished Achievement Award
Helen M. Hazi (West Virginia University)