Category: Department of Curriculum and Instruction

School of Education graduate students participate in Morgridge Entrepreneurial Bootcamp

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Four graduate students from the UW–Madison School of Education participated in this year’s Morgridge Entrepreneurial Bootcamp. Launched 19 years ago by John Morgridge and campus partners, the Morgridge Entrepreneurial Bootcamp is an intensive, week-long program that brings together graduate students across disciplines to explore the intersection of innovation, technology, and business. Through case studies, lectures, …

UW–Madison research on transformative power of higher education in prison earns national award

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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Education earned the 2026 Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education for their study on how higher education in prison can transform students’ relationships with learning. The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education presented the award. The award recognizes “‘I am a Learner:’ How …

Washington Post obituary honors UW–Madison alumna Mary Tsingou Menzel

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A Washington Post obituary highlights the remarkable life and career of UW–Madison alumna Mary Tsingou Menzel, who died recently at age 97. The obituary recounts how Menzel was among the many women who joined the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico during the early years of the Cold War. Hired to perform mathematical calculations by …

School of Education celebrates recently promoted faculty

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Several School of Education faculty members were recently honored with promotions in recognition of their continued excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service across UW–Madison and in their scholarly communities.  The promotions were celebrated at an event hosted by Interim Chancellor Eric Wilcots. The School of Education faculty recognized at the event were: Promoted to associate …

UW–Madison’s Halverson argues for funding teaching artists in The Hechinger Report editorial

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Teaching artists are deeply valuable members of the education community and should be funded accordingly, a UW–Madison School of Education faculty member argued in a recent editorial.  Erica Halverson, chair of the Department of Theatre & Drama and professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, pushed for year-round, well-paid jobs for teaching artists in …

UW–Madison professor discusses what schools do and don’t teach about 9/11

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By Amellia Fowler UW–Madison’s Jeremy Stoddard, a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction and a researcher with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, was interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio about how middle and high school students are taught about the September 11 attacks. In the Weekend Edition Sunday segment, Stoddard …

UW–Madison’s Halverson named to a2ru Executive Committee

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UW–Madison’s Erica Halverson has been named to the Executive Committee of the Alliance in the Arts for Research Universities (a2ru). Halverson, the Gibb Faculty Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, chair of the Department of Theatre and Drama, and special advisor to the dean on arts and innovation in the School of Education, has dedicated her …

School of Education Dean Marcelle Haddix to moderate Cap Times Idea Fest panel

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The dean of the UW–Madison School of Education will moderate a panel at the Cap Times Idea Fest next week, guiding panelists as they discuss how philanthropy and public-private partnership could play a vital role in the future of public schools in Madison.  The discussion, “Can Madison get this right? Schools, talent, and our city’s …

School of Education research on teaching about 9/11 featured in Wisconsin State Journal

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A long-running School of Education study examining how educators teach about the events of September 11, 2001 was featured recently in the Wisconsin State Journal.  The study, led by faculty member Jeremy Stoddard and Dean Emerita Diana Hess, began in 2002. The study looks into how the events of 9/11 and the global war on …

UW–Madison alumnae team up on children’s book exploring Wisconsin cheese

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UW–Madison alumnae Susan Apps-Bodilly and Renée Graef have teamed up to create a new children’s book that takes readers on an entertaining A-to-Z journey through the delicious world of Wisconsin cheese. Published in August by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, “The ABCs of Wisconsin Cheese” explores the stories and makers behind the food that has …