May 26, 2020
The 90-minute event was recorded and can be accessed via the Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition team's website. The panel focused its efforts on these questions: Why is gesture important for learning and teaching? What can gesture research tell us about how to make online learning effective? What can we expect to be challenges for online learning? What advice for parents do you all have right now — and for teachers facing online instruction?
May 25, 2020
Each May, the UW–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Awards in the Creative Arts. And once again, artists associated with the School of Education were recipients of these honors. Fred Stonehouse received the Creative Arts Award and Leslie Smith III was recognized with the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts.
May 22, 2020
Caleb Probst worked on this project during both the 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years, and says the experience was influential in defining his first year of graduate school. Probst, who is finishing up his master’s degree this summer, will begin pursuing a PhD with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the fall. He currently has a strong interest in the power of children’s informal learning opportunities.
May 22, 2020
Diana Rodríguez Gómez earlier this spring was named the winner of the 2020 Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Junior Faculty Teaching Award. She is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies.
May 21, 2020
UW-Madison’s Jerlando Jackson co-authored a recent article titled, “Mixed-reality simulations to build capacity for advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geosciences.” Co-authors on this paper include Jason Chen of the William & Mary School of Education and M. Shane Tutwiler of the University of Rhode Island.
May 21, 2020
UW-Madison’s John Baldacchino recently released two new books, “Sejjieħ il-Ħsieb: Limitu u Ħelsien (Rubblewalls of Thought: Limit and Freedom)” and “Educing Ivan Illich: Reform, Contingency, and Disestablishment.”
May 20, 2020
Pauline Ho is a PhD student within the human development area of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Her work was selected for funding in the amount of $3,000.
May 19, 2020
UW–Madison’s William Schrage, a professor of exercise physiology with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, was recently awarded a five-year, $3.04 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
May 18, 2020
The early career researchers receive $350,000 to execute rigorous five-year research plans that stretch their skills and knowledge into new disciplines, content areas, or methods. Green received his PhD in 2013 from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
May 15, 2020
A team of education researchers from across the country has pooled its expertise to develop the, “At-Home Early Math Learning Kit for Families.” Among those helping with the initiative is UW–Madison's Amy Claessens, who holds the Gulbrandsen Distinguished Chair in Early Childhood Education.