July 8, 2020
The following message from Dean Diana Hess was emailed to international students who are studying within the School of Education on Wednesday, July 8.
Diversity & Inclusion
Charleston speaks on ‘advancing equity’ within School of Education, campus-wide
June 24, 2020
UW–Madison’s LaVar Charleston, the School of Education’s associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion, took part in a virtual discussion on June 17 titled, “Advancing Equity when Campus is Closed.” Charleston reflected on the challenges his office has faced during the COVID-19 campus closure and discussed initiatives within the School of Education that promote an equitable and inclusive culture, as well as work that still needs to be done.
Working Together to Address the Impact of Racism: A Virtual Event to Promote an Equitable and Inclusive School of Education
June 19, 2020
Working Together to Address the Impact of Racism: A Virtual Event to Promote an Equitable and Inclusive School of Education
Message from Dean Hess on School’s commitment to racial justice
June 15, 2020
The following message from School of Education Dean Diana Hess was emailed to students, staff, and faculty across the School on Monday, June 15.
UW-Madison’s Ladson-Billings takes part in Real Talk Virtual Summit on Racial Justice
June 12, 2020
Boys and Girls Club CEO and President Michael Johnson along with Madison365 Publisher and CEO Henry Sanders teamed up to host the Real Talk Virtual Summit on Racial Justice. The summit brought together people of color from Wisconsin to put words into action.
Six from UW–Madison receive prestigious 2020 NAEd/Spencer fellowships and awards
June 11, 2020
PhD candidates Qing Liu, Huimin Wang, and Choua P. Xiong were named Dissertation Fellows, while faculty members Jordan A. Conwell and Diego Román were awarded Postdoctoral Fellows, and Kathryn Kirchgasler received a Research Development Award.
Four with ties to School of Education named Morgridge Fellows
June 9, 2020
The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship, defined as: teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, mutually beneficial collaboration with communities to fulfill campus and community objectives.
Madison365.com highlights ‘Wisconsin’s 38 Most Influential Native Americans’
May 28, 2020
This is the first list of its kind for Madison365.com, which over the previous five years has recognized Wisconsin’s most influential Black and Latino leaders. This report includes several alumni of UW-Madison’s School of Education.
Report co-authored by UW–Madison’s Jackson earns best paper honor at RESPECT 2020
May 27, 2020
The 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference was a virtual, international conference designed to serve as a premier venue for peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary research on broadening participation in computing.
UW-Madison’s Baldridge authors, ‘Negotiating anti-black racism in “liberal” contexts’
May 26, 2020
Bianca Baldridge, a sociologist of education and an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies, explains that her research “challenges liberal and progressive claims of social justice in education within predominantly white cities that reify anti-Black racism.”