August 15, 2022
Teachers from across Wisconsin are helping launch Aqualab, the latest educational video game from UW-Madison's Field Day Lab.
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Back to school experts from UW–Madison are available to share insights
August 15, 2022
As parents, students, and teachers prepare for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year, experts from UW–Madison’s School of Education are ready to share their thoughts with media members on a range of school and education-related topics.
Teaching About the Holocaust workshop to help educators implement Act 30
August 12, 2022
Starting with the upcoming 2022-23 academic year, schools across Wisconsin will be required to provide education on the Holocaust and other genocides under a bipartisan bill signed into law this past spring. In an effort to give educators the tools they need to discuss these topics with students, the UW–Madison School of Education on Aug. 18 is hosting an on-campus workshop titled Teaching about the Holocaust.
Mixed-media dance theater work ‘Here Lies the Truth’ begins national tour in Hawaii
August 11, 2022
Li Chiao-Ping Dance is launching a national tour of its mixed-media, collaborative dance theater work, “Here Lies the Truth,” in August. The tour will begin in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 13, with performances in San Francisco and Minneapolis to follow in the fall and spring.
O’Connor is recipient of Forward Award from Wisconsin Alumni Foundation
August 10, 2022
School of Education alumnus David J. O’Connor is a recipient of a 2022 Forward Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Foundation. In his work as the American Indian Studies consultant at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, O’Connor trains educators about how to infuse their lessons with knowledge about First Nations’ histories, treaties, sovereignty, languages, and cultures.
Paper by Baldacchino is published in special journal issue celebrating 50 years of works by Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich
August 8, 2022
UW–Madison’s John Baldacchino, a professor in the Art Department, is the author of a new paper that was published in a special issue of the journal Espacio, Tiempo y Educacion celebrating 50 years of the publication of Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” and Ivan Illich’s “Deschooling Society.”
‘Thresholds,’ featuring photography by UW–Madison’s Jones, makes private emotions public
August 5, 2022
An exhibition co-created by UW–Madison’s Tomiko Jones opens on Monday, Aug. 8, at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD). Titled “Thresholds,” the exhibition addresses memory, identity, labor, and death through the photography-based work of Jones, an assistant professor in the Art Department, and Elizabeth M. Claffey.
Student scholars explain their work at Summer Education Research Poster Symposium
August 4, 2022
The students had been conducting research alongside faculty mentors as a part of the 10-week Summer Education Research Program (SERP). The young scholars, who came to Madison from around the country and beyond, delivered short presentations and spoke with those who attended the event about their findings.
Second NSF grant expands study of college and career success of students in military, veterans
August 4, 2022
WCER researcher Ross Benbow will use the $1.4 million grant to track military students/veterans from universities outside Wisconsin, too.
UW–Madison alum Lesko is new executive editor of Teachers College Record
August 1, 2022
UW–Madison alumna Nancy Lesko, who earned her master's and PhD from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been named the interim executive editor of the Teachers College (TC) Record, effective July 1.