January 31, 2023
Check out what UW–Madison School of Education alumni from across the globe have been up to in this latest version of Class Notes for our alumni publication Learning Connections.
Learning Connections
Latest Learning Connections alumni magazine now available online
July 29, 2022
The Summer 2022 edition of Learning Connections, a magazine for alumni and friends of the UW–Madison School of Education, is now posted online. This issue centers on Rising to the Challenge — and above the political noise — to demonstrate how quality education can play a vital role in helping people better understand each other and work together to reimagine a better future.
Class notes: Summer 2022 Learning Connections
July 15, 2022
Check out what UW–Madison School of Education alumni are up to in these updates for the Summer 2022 edition of Learning Connections.
Graduate student scholarship honors leader in comparative education
July 14, 2022
Andreas Kazamias is among the world’s leading experts in comparative humanistic education. To honor and celebrate his remarkable career and life journey, three anonymous donors created a graduate student scholarship through the Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS) — which Kazamias helped found — in his honor.
New program aimed at health promotion and health equity graduates first students
July 14, 2022
After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the harsh reality of health inequity in Wisconsin and across the United States, the first graduates of the School of Education’s new program aimed at bolstering health education and combating inequity are entering the workforce.
A groundbreaking project for a trailblazing team
July 14, 2022
This work will mark the single largest study with Black women faculty members that has been conducted, says Rachelle Winkle-Wagner. The research team includes six Black women scholars who are pursuing their doctorates through the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
Puntambekar receives ‘Research Worth Reading’ honor
July 14, 2022
The paper being recognized by the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) is titled, “Supporting middle school students’ science talk: A comparison of physical and virtual labs.” This award is given to three papers published in JRST in the past year deemed to have the most significant impact for science educators and practitioners.
Kaplan developing forecasting models for UN Sustainable Development Goals
July 14, 2022
UW–Madison's David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education's Department of Educational Psychology, received a three-year, $897,000 grant from the Institute for Education Sciences to work on the development of probabilistic forecasting approaches to model trends toward the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
New program aims to address shortage of bilingual teachers
July 14, 2022
A new certificate program from the UW–Madison School of Education aims to meet a growing need for Spanish-language bilingual educators in Wisconsin and beyond.
Free, online learning game iPlan lets students re-imagine land use based on real science
July 14, 2022
UW-Madison School of Education researchers teamed with the New England conservation nonprofit Mass Audubon to produce the free, online learning game iPlan, which lets students re-imagine land use based on real science.