The 2023-24 Teaching Assistant Awards have been announced, and among the 31 honorees are seven exceptional graduate students from the School of Education. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of disciplines. Their contributions to the classroom, lab, and field are essential to the university’s educational mission. To recognize the excellence …
Jessica Stovall has received the 2024 Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Critical Educators for Social Justice special interest group. The Dissertation Award recognizes doctoral-level research that utilizes critical theory and critical methodologies. Stovall’s winning dissertation is titled, “‘We’re part of something way bigger’: The transformative potential of Black teacher fugitive space.” …
UW–Madison alumna Barbara Seyda, who earned her bachelor’s degree from the School of Education’s Art Department in 1980, has a forthcoming memoir that is titled, “Gaudy Sorrow.” “Gaudy Sorrow” is described as “a surreal, epistolary memoir” about Seyda’s Basque friend who died of Covid on Christmas Eve. The book, published by Finishing Line Press, is …
Omari “Motion” Carter, who comes to UW–Madison from London, England, is a new assistant professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department. He started his role in Jan. 2024 and teaches the dances of hip-hop culture, body percussion, and screendance practice. Recently, the School of Education communications team asked Carter to answer some questions to …
By Laurel White A new UW–Madison study sheds light on how state and local government laws, policies, and proposals limiting LGBTQ+ students’ rights have proliferated in recent years, how those policies harm students, and how states and school boards have failed to respond to federal court rulings related to LGBTQ+ inclusivity. The study, published in …
By Jill Schaefer and Autumn Sanchez, Division of Continuing Studies Megan Reilly always felt like something was different about her, but she couldn’t pinpoint it. As an undergraduate, she needed to know why she had to complete an assignment or task. If she didn’t, she might simply refuse to do it, much to the confusion of her …
By Laurel White As American public schools continue to reckon with widespread racial inequities, a School of Education research project is working to offer support and build understanding of how school leaders can facilitate anti-racist policy changes. Over the past two years, researchers from the UW–Madison School of Education and the University of Missouri have …
UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah is one of 16 extraordinary Wisconsinites being honored with a 2024 Fellows Award from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. This award, which honors high levels of accomplishment and a demonstrated lifelong commitment to intellectual discourse and public service, is the highest recognition conferred by the Wisconsin Academy. “I am …
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan offered his expertise to Madison’s WKOW/Ch. 27 last month, sharing his thoughts on the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in college admissions. Nathan is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in Learning Sciences in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. “This tool is likely to be very useful for young people …
The second season of UW–Madison faculty member Erica Halverson’s podcast, “Art Educators Save the World,” has concluded with an episode featuring three-time Emmy Award-winning actor Bradley Whitford — who got his start in acting while a student at Madison East High School. Halverson, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, …