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 …
The award recognizes an administrator, program director, or staff member with a higher education institution who epitomizes leadership in the postsecondary field. Mock earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education in 2004. Cindi May, a 2018 SOTA Conference advisory board member and a professor from the College of Charleston, presented the …
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. …
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 he contributed …
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 …
Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Policy Studies. NPR reports: “Is a child who spends the day watching videos or playing in the backyard actually learning? Yes, say advocates of the ‘unschooling” movement.’ ” Guests of “On Point” who were asked to weigh in on this topic also included: Maleka Diggs, founder of Eclectic …
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 …
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 …
But he watched young teachers struggle with limited education coursework and the expectation to get a master’s degree early on in their careers. Van Divier found the solution to these challenges in UW–Madison’s Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction: Secondary Education and ESL Certification program. “For me, it made the most sense to find a …
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 …