ASCD Wins Top Awards for Publications, Newsletters, Digital Media

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August 3, 2020

Alexa Epitropoulos, 1-703-575-5784

ALEXANDRIA, VA— ASCD had a strong showing at Association Media and Publishing's EXCEL awards, winning multiple Gold awards across categories for its books and digital and print publications, including seven for its flagship magazine Educational Leadership^®.

ASCD brought home more than 10 Gold awards overall. The ASCD book Becoming the Educator They Need: Strategies, Mindsets, and Beliefs for Supporting Black and Latino Students by Robert Jackson won the Gold award for Best Technical Book. Educational Leadership won the top award for General Excellence, which recognizes originality and quality of content, design, writing, organization of articles, and general readability. Newsletters Education Update and ASCD Express won three Gold awards, including for Editorial Excellence in print and digital, respectively.

ASCD's notable EXCEL honors include these:

• The ASCD book Becoming the Educator They Need: Strategies, Mindsets, and Beliefs for Supporting Black and Latino Students by Robert Jackson won Gold award for Best Technical Book.
• Educational Leadership won the Gold award for General Excellence.
• ASCD Express won the Gold award for Editorial Excellence for Digital.
• Education Update won the Gold award for Editorial Excellence for Print Newsletters.
• Educational Leadership won Gold awards for Best Single Topic Issue for its April 2019 issue "Separate And Still Unequal: Race in America's Schools" and Best Feature Article for Pedro Noguera's "Why School Integration Matters."
• Education Update won the Gold award for Print Newsletter Redesign.
• The ASCD book Your Students, My Students, Our Students: Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms by Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Julie Kroener won the Bronze award for Best Technical Book.
• Educational Leadership won a Bronze award for Best Article Design for "School Shootings: What We Know, What We Can Do," from its October 2019 issue.

The Association Media & Publishing's EXCEL Awards is the largest and most prestigious award program that recognizes excellence and leadership exclusively in nonprofit association media, publishing, marketing, and communications.

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