September 8, 2021
It was a beautiful late summer day for members of the School of Education community — many used to seeing each other only in boxes on their computer screens — to reunite for the traditional Welcome Back Bash for faculty and staff, in the North Plaza of the Education Building overlooking Lake Mendota, on Thursday, Sept. 2. While enjoying a full tailgate lunch, and picking up T-shirts tagged with the phrase “Lead and Inspire,” attendees took a break from their workdays to catch up with colleagues and kick off the new school year.
September 3, 2021
UW–Madison’s Elizabeth Fennema, a professor emerita in the School of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
September 2, 2021
We spoke to some of our students, faculty, and staff to learn how the pandemic impacted them, what they learned from it, and what they are looking forward to this semester. Following are their stories.
September 2, 2021
We'd like to introduce you to one of the School of Education's newest faculty members — Suzanne Eckes, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
August 27, 2021
UW–Madison’s Erica Turner, an associate professor in the School of Education's Department of Educational Policy Studies, has received an honorable mention for the American Sociology Association’s Pierre Bourdieu Award for the Best Book in Sociology of Education.
August 26, 2021
UW–Madison’s Kevin Henry, an assistant professor in the School of Education's Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, has been awarded a Theories of Blackness, Indigeneity, and Racialization in Research to Reduce Inequality in the Lives of Young People Writing Fellowship from the William T. Grant Foundation.
August 25, 2021
UW-Madison’s School of Education is welcoming faculty and staff back to campus with its typical Welcome Back Bash event on Thursday, Sept. 2. The School will again introduce new faculty members during the event, with three talented scholars joining us for the start of the fall semester.
August 24, 2021
UW–Madison’s Karla Ausderau, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, has been awarded a COVID-19 Response Research and Education Award from the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) at the UW–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
August 23, 2021
UW–Madison’s Hyunwoo Yang is a recipient of a Dissertation Grant Award from the American Education Research Association (AERA) for his project titled, “The Effects of Wisconsin's Universal 4K Program on Academic Achievement Gaps.”
August 20, 2021
UW–Madison’s Matthew T. Hora, Ross J. Benbow, and Changhee Lee have published a new paper in the Journal of the Learning Sciences titled, “A sociocultural approach to communication instruction: How insights from communication teaching practices can inform faculty development programs.”