June 22, 2021
LaVar Charleston, an innovative leader and accomplished researcher with nearly two decades of experience related to diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education, has been named to lead UW–Madison’s diversity and inclusion efforts. Since June 2019, Charleston has served as the inaugural associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion in the School of Education.
June 22, 2021
Four people with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education — Matthew Hora, Stacey Lee, Bailey Smolarek, and Matthew Wolfgram — are leading a project to further understand and reduce inequalities in higher education among Hmong Americans. The project is one of 15 chosen to receive grants through the through UW–Madison’s Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative.
June 21, 2021
Crystal Stonewall, a UW–Madison School of Education alumna and current UW–Madison law student, has been honored by the State Bar of Wisconsin as a 2021 Outstanding Public Interest Law Student of the Year. Stonewall earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 2019.
June 19, 2021
UW–Madison alumnus Pao Lor is the author of a new memoir, titled “Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival,” published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Lor earned his doctorate from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and currently holds the Patricia Wood Baer Professorship in Education at UW–Green Bay.
June 18, 2021
Transgender, two-spirit, and nonbinary (TNB) people have increased risk for mental health concerns, including anxiety, trauma-based distress, depression, self-harm, and suicide. To improve mental health outcomes for these individuals, a project led by the School of Education’s Stephanie Budge seeks to assess whether e-therapy (telehealth) interventions matching TNB clients with TNB therapists makes a positive difference. The project is one of 15 chosen to receive grants through the through UW–Madison’s Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative.
June 17, 2021
The School of Education’s Diego Román and Lisa M. Barker are working on a project that aims to improve education for Latinx students in rural Wisconsin by training their teachers in how to engage English learners (ELs) in discussion about topics, such as water quality, that directly affect local communities. The project, titled “Teaching local socio-scientific issues to Latinx English learners,” is one of 15 chosen to receive grants through the through UW–Madison’s Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative.
June 16, 2021
In addition, the CCWT study found that half of internships during the COVID-19 pandemic were in-person positions, while quality indicators for online internships were low.
June 15, 2021
Christine Pfund and Jenna Rogers of the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) are co-investigators on a project that aims to reduce inequality in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical sciences (STEMM) fields through culturally aware mentor training. Their study is among 15 chosen to receive grants through UW–Madison's Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative.
June 14, 2021
UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal, a professor in the School of Education's Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, is first author of an article published in the journal Cognition and Instruction that is titled, “Inclusive Future Making: Building a Culturally Responsive Behavioral Support. Joining Bal as co-authors of the paper are UW–Madison alumni Kemal Afacan and Halil Ibrahim Cakir, and Tremayne Clardy, the new superintendent of the Verona Area School District.
June 11, 2021
UW–Madison’s Brenda Spychalla, the co-CIO of the School of Education and co-director of MERIT, has been honored with the UW-IT Professionals Lifetime Achievement Award.