Travers is an assistant professor with the School of Education and the Department of Kinesiology’s occupational therapy program. Earlier this year, she was appointed as the Carla and Michael Austin Occupational Therapy Faculty Fellow. Travers heads the Motor and Brain Development Lab within the university’s Waisman Center, where she is involved with more than a …
Schliesman is a librarian with the School of Education’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC). In that role, she oversees the CCBC’s Intellectual Freedom Information Service that responds to any teachers or librarians in the state who are facing a challenge to a book they have in their classroom or that’s in a school or public …
The possibilities Soosai Raj is exploring to that end promise new directions for computer science education. Soosai Raj’s research was inspired by his experiences first as an undergraduate at a university in India, then as a graduate student at UW–Madison. The approaches he explores would have helped him as a learner, he said. And he …
The workshops were designed to introduce Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) and to enhance teacher leaders’ capacity across three districts in Israel to implement the framework and accompanying professional development processes. King is a faculty associate with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and has also been a researcher with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), where …
Her dissertation is titled: “A critical race ethnography examining dual-language education in the new Latinx diaspora: Reinforcing and resisting bilingual education’s racial roots.” Chávez-Moreno earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction this past summer. She will be receiving her award and will be presenting her research at …
The grants, awarded through the Partnership Program’s Community Impact Grant program, each total $1 million over five years and support large-scale, evidence-based, community-academic partnerships aimed at achieving sustainable systems changes to improve health equity in Wisconsin. And among the projects receiving funding is one that’s utilizing the expertise of the School of Education’s Jerlando Jackson. …
DreamUp Wisconsin, the local implementation effort launched to meet the challenge, has selected 11 proposals, from a total of 46 submitted by teams of community and university partners, which offer innovative ideas to grow and support Dane County’s middle class. And among those involved with a winning proposal is the School of Education’s Elizabeth Graue, who …
She is a professor of educational organization and leadership in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. Cosner also recently accepted the position as director of UIC’s Center for Urban Education Leadership. Cosner received her PhD from the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2005. Her research interests include organizational change; school reform and …
UW–Madison’s Kimber Wilkerson and Melinda Leko were awarded a $2.5 million U.S. Department of Education Teacher Quality Partnership Grant to fund 40 graduate students who will work with students with disabilities in high-need and small, rural school districts across Wisconsin. Wilkerson is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special …
“Consider it not so Deeply” explores the conflicting layers of the female psyche in Shakespeare’s women through Skog’s powerful, demanding choreography, Shakespeare’s theatrical prose, and original sound, designed by Matan Rubenstein and Timothy Russell. The concert features a lively 60 minutes of evocative contemporary movement accompanied by both original music and that of Vivaldi, as well as spoken word. It …