Nathan, Alibali part of virtual panel examining ‘Instructional Gestures for Classrooms and On-Line Mathematics Learning’

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?

Stonehouse, Smith honored with 2020 Awards in the Creative Arts

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.

Grand Challenges project, ‘What the Moon Saw,’ influential experience for Probst while pursuing master’s degree

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.

UW–Madison’s Baldacchino releases two new books

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.”

UW–Madison alum Green receives 2020 William T. Grant Scholars award

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.

Researchers release free, at-home early math resources for families

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.