A Madison dance troupe led by UW–Madison Dance Department lecturer AJ Juarez recently appeared on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” earning praise from judges and advancing to the next round of competition. Juarez’s group, Barrio Dance Factory, was featured on the Tuesday, July 7, episode of the show. The 28-member troupe opened the two-hour program with …
UW–Madison’s Luis Columna, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, has received the Hollis Fait Scholarly Award from the National Consortium for Physical Education for Individuals with Disabilities (NCPEID). One of the organization’s highest honors, the award recognizes a distinguished record of scholarly activity in adapted physical education and adapted physical activity. …
By Kari Dickinson In a room overlooking the summer blooms at Madison’s Olbrich Gardens, 10 educators sit with notebooks open as UW–Madison School of Education Dean Marcelle Haddix speaks. “I strongly believe that you can’t be a teacher of writing if you yourself don’t identify as a writer,” Haddix says. “I really appreciate spaces like …
By Karen Rivedal, Office of Research & Scholarship Communications A new study led by UW–Madison education researchers offers one of the first detailed assessments of how K–12 teachers view the potential use of automated scoring and feedback of writing assignments by young multilingual learners. The study, published in Assessing Writing, “Educator perspectives on automated writing scoring and …
Story and photos by Ted Hyngstrom, Division of the Arts Raleigh Savage usually spends her semesters investigating the inner workings of the human brain — studying concepts such as neurons, axons, and dendrites, with little time to learn about much else. But in her final summer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the neurobiology major is branching …
UW–Madison’s Francesca López, the Jim and Georgia Thompson Distinguished Professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, has been selected to serve on the William T. Grant Scholars Selection Committee. Launched in 1982, the William T. Grant Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising early-career researchers in the social, …
A new report from WIDA, housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, was featured in Education Week. The report found that, for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, English learners’ average English-language proficiency test scores did not decline. Instead, scores held steady or increased in most grade …
After nearly a decade at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s historic Silver Buckle Press is returning to campus, under the ownership of the Art Department within the School of Education, and will serve as a hands-on teaching resource for students and faculty. The return marks the next chapter in …
By Jill Schaefer, for the UW–Madison Summer Term website When rising University of Wisconsin–Madison junior Jimena Rico-Sotelo was five years old, she entered the American school system speaking only Spanish. “I know firsthand what it feels like not to understand English but want to learn how to speak it,” said Rico-Sotelo, a Milwaukee native majoring …
Two teams of UW–Madison students in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction’s spring 2026 Game Design 2 course have earned international recognition for games they developed to address global challenges. The student teams participated in the Games for Change (G4C) Student Challenge, an international game design competition that invites young people to create digital games …