Helen Lee has been named the faculty director of The Studio, UW–Madison’s residential creative arts community for first- and second-year undergraduate students. Lee is an associate professor in the School of Education’s Art Department. She is an artist, designer, and educator, who holds an MFA in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and a bachelor’s …
UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings was featured recently on WORT-FM’s “The 8 O’Clock Buzz” morning show to discuss her perspective on critical race theory, and how it’s often misrepresented. Ladson-Billings is a professor emerita in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and is president of the National Academy of Education. The WORT-FM webpage previewing Ladson-Billings’ appearance explains …
Former UW System President Kevin Reilly is the author of an article published in the September/October 2021 issue of Trusteeship magazine that is titled, “A Wake-Up Call.” Reilly holds an appointment as a Regent Professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He also is a senior fellow at the Association …
The Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (CRPBIS) research center at UW–Madison has published a study in the leading journal Race, Ethnicity, and Education, titled “Transformative agency for justice: Addressing racialization of school discipline with the Indigenous Learning Laboratory.” The study was co-authored by UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal, a professor in the School of Education’s Department …
An opinion piece from the New York Times’ Jay Caspian Kang makes note of important work from UW–Madison’s John Diamond and Linn Posey-Maddox focused on the changing terrain of the suburbs and their schools. Diamond is the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education and a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership …
UW–Madison’s Brian Burt is the lead author of a new paper published in the Teachers College Record that examines Black male graduate students’ advising experiences in engineering — with the researchers theorizing that more caring relationships could assist students in earning their degree. This work is important because it’s estimated that more than half of …
By Mike Klein A new state-of-the art facility to support student and community health will nearly triple the size of the former Natatorium, serving more students and community members with recreational and well-being services. The $113.2 million facility will be named the Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center. The gift and details were announced today in …
WIDA Español, a program of UW–Madison’s WIDA, has released Marco de referencia de las artes del lenguaje del español de WIDA (Marco ALE), a Spanish language arts framework. Marco ALE is the first framework of its kind in the U.S., providing the key elements for developing standards and teaching Spanish language arts in grades K–12. Marco ALE guides …
UW–Madison’s Li-Ching Ho is a co-author of a new book that is titled, “Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Knowledge, and Action in Social and Civic Education.” Ho is a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, as well as the faculty director of the School’s Global Engagement Office. Ho wrote the book …
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan is the author of a new book that is titled, “Foundations of Embodied Learning: A Paradigm for Education,” published by Routledge. Nathan is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. In a blog post, Nathan said he wrote the book “to share the large body of evidence …