Book Awards

Since our founding in 2017, MEP has won more than 60 book awards from a variety of academic organizations and review media. We are incredibly proud of the scholarship produced by our authors and collection editors. Here’s the current list of winners:

Transforming Education for Social Justice

2026 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Beyond Labels

2026 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Methodology and Praxis

2026 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

The Metropolitan Community

2026 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Moments & Movements

2026 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Improvement Science in Education

2026 AACTE Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award winner

Transforming Teaching Through the Cycle of Care

2026 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Food Stories

2026 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Letters to the Field

2026 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Repertoires of Racial Resistance

2025 AESA Critic's Choice Award Winner

All In

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Practicing Restorative Justice

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Activists, Advocates, and Agitators

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Code Red

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

The Alchemy of Teaching

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

T* Is for Thriving

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Qualitative Research Design and Methods

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2024 AESA Critic’s Choice Award Winner

Acts of Resistance

2021 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Whiting Out

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Transforming Identities

2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

A Soul-Centered Approach to Educating Teachers

2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

The Action Research Dissertation

2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

The Antonia Darder Reader

2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Quests for Questioners

2024 AESA Critic’s Choice Award Winner

Win-Win

2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Thinking About Black Education

2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Our Bodies Tell the Story

2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

It's Not Rocket Science - A Guide to the School Improvement Cycle

2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Generative Knowing

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Justice for Black Students

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Insurgent Social Studies

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Children and Trauma

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Transformative Autoethnography for Practitioners

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Reckoning

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Improvement Science as a Tool for School Enhancement

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Transformative Critical Service-Learning

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

The Autism Industrial Complex

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Freirean Echoes

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Secret Lives of Children in the Digital Age

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Book Award Winner

Childhoods in More Just Worlds

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Ideas That Changed Literacy Practices

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

On Liking the Other

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Improvement Science

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Exploring the Archives

2022 AESA Critic’s Choice Award Winner

A Framework for Culturally Responsive Practices

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

The Commodification of American Education

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Opening Third Spaces for Research in Education

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Teaching Improvement Science in Educational Leadership

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Anticipating Education

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Studies - A Reader

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Our Children Are Your Students

2023 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2022 Choice Outstanding Book Award Winner

Learning That Matters

2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Pedagogies of With-ness

2021 Choice Outstanding Book Award Winner

Conservative Philanthropies and Organizations Shaping U.S. Educational Policy and Practice

2021 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

African-Centered Education

2021 AESA Critic’s Choice Award Winner, 2021 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

The Activist Academic

2021 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

The Age of Accountability

2021 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Focus Groups

2021 AERA Qualitative Research SIG Outstanding Book Award Winner

Nurture, Care, Respect, and Trust

2021 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Opting Out

2020 AESA Critic’s Choice Award Winner

A Cross-Cultural Consideration of Teacher Leaders' Narratives of Power, Agency and School Culture

2021 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Making Sense of Race in Education

2021 AESA Critic’s Choice Award Winner, 2021 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Researching Resistance

2020 Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention from Division B of AERA

Womanish Black Girls

2020 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance

2020 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

It's Not Education that Scares Me, It's the Educators...

2020 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Let's Chat—Cultivating Community University Dialogue

2019 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

2018 AESA Critic’s Choice Award Winner, 2019 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner

Indigeneity and Decolonial Resistance

2019 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention