July 18, 2022
Three individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have been named to the fifth cohort of Morgridge Fellows. They are: Khrysta A. Evans, a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies; CJ Greer, a PhD student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis; and Marquel Norton, a PhD student in the Department of Counseling Psychology.
July 14, 2022
UW–Madison student Janel Anderson, a PhD student in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, has been selected to attend the Philosophical Perspectives on Care Institute from July 12 – 29 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
July 13, 2022
Applications are now open for The Discussion Project’s in-person course, with new sessions starting in August 2022 and January 2023. The course is free and open to all UW–Madison instructors, including faculty, academic staff, and graduate students.
July 12, 2022
The UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) hosted a festschrift on June 3 to honor longtime faculty members Julie Mead and Julie Underwood ("the Julies") on the occasion of their retirements.
July 11, 2022
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was named an international guest professor and will spend three months at the Institute für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at Heidelberg University in Germany.
July 8, 2022
One of the most highly respected education journals in the country has released a special issue this summer, co-edited by a UW-Madison School of Education faculty member, dedicated to research about the experiences of transgender elementary and high school students.
July 8, 2022
WCER researchers will help Wisconsin students better lead improvements in their schools, neighborhoods.
July 7, 2022
The UW–Madison School of Education’s Early Career Teaching Institute will host a public keynote address by Juliana Urtubey, the 2021 National Teacher of the Year, on Tuesday, July 26, at 4 p.m. Both the presentation and reception that follows are in Varsity Hall at Union South, and are free and open to the public. However, registration is required.
July 6, 2022
KT Horning started working at the CCBC as an undergraduate volunteer in 1979, learned and thrived under the mentorship of director emerita Ginny Moore Kruse, and took over as the center’s director in 2002. A remarkable career that spanned parts of six decades ended on July 1, when Horning retired from the university.
July 5, 2022
Field Day Lab’s newest online learning game, The Legend of the Lost Emerald — an immersive, boldly illustrated point-and-click adventure game that teaches while it entertains — won its first accolades recently with a top prize in the 2022 International Serious Play Awards Program in Orlando, Florida.