The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced the winners of its 2020 awards for excellence in education research earlier this summer, and UW–Madison’s Annalee Good and Huiping “Emily” Cheng were recognized with top honors. Good is an assistant scientist with the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), the co-director of WCER’s Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative, and director of …
UW–Madison alumna Patricia Marroquin Norby has been hired as the first full-time Native American art curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Norby earned her master of fine arts degree from the School of Education’s Art Department in 2002. Norby has previously served as senior executive and assistant director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum …
UW–Madison alumna Melissa Schieble will be featured in a book talk hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University, about a new book she co-authored that is titled, “Classroom Talk for Social Change: Critical Conversations in English Language Arts.” Schieble’s co-authors, Amy Vetter and Kahdeidra Monét Martin, will also participate in the discussion, which will be moderated …
The American Philosophical Society Library and Museum recently announced that UW–Madison alumnus D.O. McCullough has received the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship. This fellowship will provide hands-on experience in curatorial work and the opportunity to pursue an independent research project, preferably one related to the collections or programs of the Society’s Library and Museum. …
During the course of the academic year, we’ll be sharing out Q&As completed by our newest faculty members in an effort to introduce them to our campus and School of Education communities. Name: Baron Kelly Title: Professor, Department of Theatre and Drama. He holds a joint appointment with the Division of Continuing Studies’ Odyssey Project. Hometown: New York …
School districts across the state and around the country are struggling to find enough qualified teachers — and these staffing challenges are growing. In an effort to help bolster Wisconsin’s teacher workforce and give the state’s schoolchildren access to the high-quality educators they deserve, the UW–Madison School of Education launched a bold new program Tuesday, …
Zara González Hoang, a 2002 alumna of the School of Education’s Art Department, has written and illustrated a new picture book, titled “A New Kind of Wild.” Published by Penguin Random House, the book “celebrates imagination, the magic of friendship, and all the different ways we make a new place feel like home.” From the …
UW-Madison alumna Liza Wiemer’s upcoming young adult (YA) novel, “The Assignment,” is being published for release on Aug. 25. Wiemer graduated from the School of Education in 1986 with a BS in elementary education. “The Assignment” follows a group of students as they must grapple with a school assignment that encourages intolerance and discrimination. As …
Carlton Jenkins, an alumnus of UW–Madison’s School of Education, was recently named the superintendent of the Madison Metropolitan School District, a position he will begin on Aug. 4. Jenkins earned both his master’s (1993) and PhD (2009) from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. On July 15, The Capital Times …
Eleven faculty and instructors from across UW–Madison have been named Morgridge Fellows, including several with ties to the School of Education. The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship, defined as: teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, …