May 20, 2022
Tessa Michaelson Schmidt was recently named the next director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), a library of UW–Madison’s School of Education. Schmidt will start in this role July 25, and will provide leadership and vision for the CCBC and its team of librarians.
May 16, 2022
UW–Madison’s Beth Fields, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, was recently awarded an American Occupational Therapy Foundation Early-Career Research Excellence Award.
May 13, 2022
A project with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education is one of seven that have been awarded 2022-23 Wisconsin Idea Fellowships. The winning proposal, by Siena Laws and Elizabeth Liu, aims to "promote mental health knowledge and create a sense of community at Madison East High School through the power of peer learning."
May 12, 2022
Mary Alice “Buff” Brennan, a longtime UW–Madison faculty member who dedicated her career to supporting and encouraging dance students, died on April 8, 2022. Brennan was a professor emerita in the School of Education’s Dance Department, where she was on the faculty from 1967 until her retirement in 2002.
May 11, 2022
Badger Talks LIVE is showcasing the UW–Madison Dance Department in a series in live, virtual events throughout the month of May.
May 11, 2022
On Saturday, May 14, UW–Madison will celebrate its Spring 2022 Commencement. We reached out to a few of the more than 600 students who are graduating from programs in the School of Education to learn about their favorite memories, advice for incoming students, and future plans.
May 4, 2022
UW–Madison alumnus Mike González received a 2022 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Principal Leadership Award. González, who earned his master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies in 2006, is principal of Bessie Allen Middle School in the School District of North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
May 2, 2022
SHAPE America, the Society of Health and Physical Educators, honored recent UW–Madison alumnus Brett Frieder as a Major of the Year during the organization’s 136th National Convention and Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana.
April 30, 2022
“Somewhere Between,” an MFA thesis exhibition by Carley Schmidt, presents a poetic meditation on the changing landscape. The exhibition is on view at Tandem Press through May 20.
April 29, 2022
The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2022 Annual Meeting recently wrapped up after being offered both in person in San Diego and virtually. More than 125 faculty, staff, and students from the UW–Madison School of Education presented at the conference, which ran April 21-26.