NCTE Affiliate Excellence in Integrated Media Award recognizes affiliates’ multiplatform communications that engage members, provide professional resources, and build professional community.
NCTE Affiliate Excellence in Programming Award recognizes affiliates' distinctive programs supporting teachers and students to strengthen literacy, classroom skills, student learning, and affiliate engagement.
NCTE Affiliate Creative Pathways Award recognizes affiliates for mentoring, inclusive outreach, and programming that help educators entering teaching find sustained support through their early career years.
NCTE Affiliate Intellectual Freedom Award honors individuals, groups, and institutions for defending intellectual freedom, recognizing courageous action against censorship and sustained leadership.
NCTE LGBTQIA+ Advocacy & Leadership Award supports an LGBTQIA+ community member by recognizing service, scholarship, and advocacy that strengthen the literacy profession and advance LGBTQIA+ people.
NCTE Leadership Award for People with Disabilities honors disabled leaders for service, teaching, scholarship, and community work that strengthen literacy communities and advance disabled people.