The KDP Laureate Chapter includes 60 living educators who have made a significant and lasting impact on the profession of education. The distinguished members of the current KDP Laureate Chapter include the following individuals.

Ted Tetsuo Aoki (1994) Michael W. Apple (2011) William C. Ayers (2000) James A. Banks (1997) David Berliner (1997) Louise M. Berman (1986) Gloria Ladson Billings (2009) Derek C. Bok (1997) John Brademas (1990) Bettye M. Caldwell (1978) Marilyn Cochran-Smith (2003) James P. Comer (1994) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2003) Larry Cuban (2000) Linda Darling-Hammond (1995) O. L. Davis, Jr. (1994) Barbara D. Day (2006) Lisa Delpit (2000) Harold D. Drummond (1984) Kieran Egan (2006) Elliot W. Eisner (1988) Ned A. Flanders (1988) William C. Friday (1978) Michael Fullan (1997) Howard Gardner (1992) Carol Gilligan (2006) Henry A. Giroux (1997) John I. Goodlad (1976) Ivor Goodson (2006) Patricia A. Graham (1988) Maxine Greene (1988)

Maureen Hallinan (2006) Andy Hargreaves (2003) Shirley Brice Heath (2009) Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. (1970) Philip W. Jackson (1994) M. Frances Klein (1995) Herbert M. Kliebard (2000) Alfie Kohn (2003) Jonathan Kozol (1997) Leonie Kramer (1994) Ellen Condliffe Lagemann (2006) Arthur E. Levine (1997) Ann Lieberman (1995) Donaldo Macedo (2003) Deborah Meier (2000) Frank Murray (2009) Zhou Nan-Zhao (2000) Sonia Nieto (2011) Nel Noddings (1994) Pedro A. Noguera (2011) Jeannie Oakes (2000) Vivian Paley (2006) Alan Schoenfeld (2006) Thomas J. Sergiovanni (1994) Lorrie A. Shepard (2011) Lee S. Shulman (1992) Robert J. Sternberg (2003) David B. Tyack (1997) Kenneth M. Zeichner (2011)