Category: Department of Curriculum and Instruction

UW–Madison Professor Emerita Ladson-Billings to deliver AERA Distinguished Lecture

UW–Madison Professor Emerita Gloria Ladson-Billings will deliver the AERA Distinguished Lecture at the 2024 Annual Meeting, to be held April 11–14 in Philadelphia. Her lecture, titled “‘Not Yet at Plessy’: 70 Years Post-Brown,” will begin at 11:25 a.m. ET on Friday, April 12. Ladson-Billings, the former Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the School …

UW–Madison School of Education ranked No. 1 by U.S. News

UW–Madison’s School of Education is the No. 1 school of education in the United States, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Education Graduate Schools rankings released on Tuesday. It marks the first time the School of Education has received the first-place ranking from U.S. News & World Report, though it has been highly …

UW–Madison alumna wins 2024 Best Paper Award

UW–Madison alumna Min Yu has received the 2024 Best Paper Award from the Comparative and International Education Society’s (CIES) East Asia special interest group (SIG). Yu’s paper, “Reimagining education and community mobilization in China’s migrant communities: towards an ‘Asia as method’ framework,” was published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. According to the abstract, …

Bestselling author James Patterson gives shoutout to Teacher Pledge on WPR’s ‘The Morning Show’

Novelist and writer James Patterson gave a shoutout to the UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge recently while a guest on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show.” Patterson, the world’s bestselling author, appeared on the show to discuss his newest book, “The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading,” …

Graue wins Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from Early Education SIG

UW–Madison’s Elizabeth Graue is receiving the Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Early Education/Child Development (EECD) special interest group (SIG). Graue is a professor emerita with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She started her career as a kindergarten teacher and is the former director of …

Meet the 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award winners from the School of Education

Thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. A ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. April 16 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union to honor the recipients. Among this year’s honorees are two faculty members …

Seven from School of Education win Teaching Assistant Awards

The 2023-24 Teaching Assistant Awards have been announced, and among the 31 honorees are seven exceptional graduate students from the School of Education. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of disciplines. Their contributions to the classroom, lab, and field are essential to the university’s educational mission. To recognize the excellence …

Alum and future faculty member Stovall wins AERA Dissertation Award

Jessica Stovall has received the 2024 Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Critical Educators for Social Justice special interest group.  The Dissertation Award recognizes doctoral-level research that utilizes critical theory and critical methodologies. Stovall’s winning dissertation is titled, “‘We’re part of something way bigger’: The transformative potential of Black teacher fugitive space.”  …

UW–Madison’s Halverson interviews Madison-born actor Bradley Whitford for podcast

The second season of UW–Madison faculty member Erica Halverson’s podcast, “Art Educators Save the World,” has concluded with an episode featuring three-time Emmy Award-winning actor Bradley Whitford — who got his start in acting while a student at Madison East High School.  Halverson, a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, …

Alumna wins early career award for ‘commitment and promise’ to Latinx higher education community

UW–Madison alumna Giselle Martinez-Negrette has been honored with the 2024 Early Career Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE). Martinez-Negrette, who earned her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 2019, was recognized for her “commitment and promise via her actions, research, and service to the …