November 23, 2021
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan, the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences in the Department of Educational Psychology, will be presenting an online book talk hosted by Madison’s A Room of One’s Own bookstore on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 6 p.m. During the event, Nathan will discuss his book, “Foundations of Embodied Learning: A Paradigm for Education,” with Martha Wagner Alibali, a professor of psychology and director of the Cognitive Development and Communication Lab at UW–Madison.
November 22, 2021
The UW–Madison School of Education honored the 2020 and 2021 recipients of the Rockwell Award for Outstanding Cooperating Teachers on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the Memorial Union’s Great Hall.
November 20, 2021
A series of books by UW–Madison’s Michael Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Department of Educational Policy Studies, has been translated and published by the company Agahpub in Iran.
November 19, 2021
Students from UW–Madison's Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) program have teamed up with the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County to help kids and families stay active this Thanksgiving.
November 19, 2021
UW–Madison alumnus Dominic Ledesma is the recipient of the Joseph C. Beckham Award for dissertation of the year from the Education Law Association. He earned his PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2021.
November 18, 2021
UW–Madison alumna Mary Pfeiffer was named Wisconsin Superintendent of the Year by the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA) on Monday, Nov. 8. Pfeiffer currently is the superintendent of the Neenah Joint School District. She earned two degrees from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis — a master’s in 1999 and a PhD in 2006.
November 17, 2021
UW–Madison student Caitlin Mary Margarett has been selected to show her work at a Satellite Art Show presented by Performance Is Alive in Miami Nov. 30 – Dec. 4. The piece she is presenting, “for the love of god,” documents the damage and land destruction caused by the 2020 Iowa Derecho.
November 16, 2021
UW–Madison’s Courtney Bell is one of 15 experts selected nationwide to serve on a new, ad-hoc committee created by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) to provide practical, evidence-based guidance to make STEM learning in the PreK–12 system equitable. Bell is director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and a professor of learning sciences with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology.
November 15, 2021
UW–Madison’s Carl Grant, the Hoefs-Bascom Professor in the School of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is the author of a new book that is titled, “James Baldwin and the American Schoolhouse."
November 11, 2021
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education's Department of Educational Psychology, was elected as president of the Psychometric Society.