Since 1992, the John Dewey Society has also given annual awards in a variety of categories. A list of winners is below.

2022 – Daniel Tanner, Lifetime Achievement Award

2022 – Lisa Heldke and Cynthia Belliveau, Outstanding Achievement Award

2021 – Marilyn Fischer, Outstanding Achievement Award

2021 – Harry Boyte, Lifetime Achievement Award

2020 – Greg Seals, Outstanding Achievement

2020 – Denis Phillips, Lifetime Achievement Award

2019 – Roger T. Ames, Lifetime Achievement Award

2019 – Barbara Stengel, Lifetime Achievement Award

2019 – Wayne Jennings, Outstanding Achievement Award

2018 – Lynda Stone, Lifetime Achievement Award

2018 – George Wood, Outstanding Achievement Award

2017 – Leonard Waks, Lifetime Achievement Award

2017 – Kyle Greenwalt, Outstanding Achievement Award

2016 – Ken Howe, Lifetime Achievement Award

2016 – Richard Milner, Outstanding Achievement Award

2015 – Dennis Littky, Lifetime Achievement Award

2015 – Jason Irizarry, Scholarly Achievement Award

2014 – Walter Feinberg, Outstanding Achievement

2013 – Jane Roland Martin, Outstanding Achievement

2012 – Larry Hickman and Jo Ann Boydston, Outstanding Achievement

2011 – Nel Noddings and Eliot Eisner, Outstanding Achievement

2008 – Steven C. Rockefeller, Outstanding Achievement

2007 – David Hansen, Outstanding Achievement

2006 – Jim Garrison, Outstanding Achievement

2005 – Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Outstanding Achievement

2004 – John McDermott, Outstanding Achievement

2003 – Benjamin Barber, Outstanding Achievement

2002 – Thomas Alexander, Outstanding Achievement

2001 – Louise Rosenblatt, Outstanding Achievement

2000 – Vivian Paley, Outstanding Achievement

1999 – Philip Jackson and Herbert Kliebard, Outstanding Achievement

1998 – Thomas Green, Outstanding Achievement

1997 – Patricia Grahm, Outstanding Achievement

1996 – Alice Miel, Outstanding Achievement

1995 – Richard Bernstein, Outstanding Achievement

1994 – Harold Taylor and Deborah Meier, Outstanding Achievement

1993 – Ralph Tyler and Arthur Wirth, Outstanding Achievement

1992 – Maxine Greene, Outstanding Achievement