UW–Madison Professor Emerita Gloria Ladson-Billings is featured in the new season of PBS Wisconsin’s “Why Race Matters,” a digital series elevating issues of importance affecting Wisconsin’s Black communities. In the series, host and producer Angela Fitzgerald connects in conversation with everyday people whose work and commitments center on race, identity, and achieving racial equity in …
UW–Madison’s Kimber Wilkerson speaks about the importance of having a diverse teacher workforce for all students in a recent article in the Appleton Post-Crescent. The article, headlined “Our classrooms are increasingly diverse, yet 9 of 10 teachers are white. Why that’s a problem and what can be done about it,” examines a current mismatch between …
Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Maxine McKinney de Royston for a recent report on how Wisconsin schools are grappling with significant declines in test scores that are a fallout from the pandemic. “Recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found a steep decline in math and reading test scores for 9-year-olds …
In a new episode of her podcast, “Arts Educators Save the World,” that will be released on Monday, Sept. 26, UW–Madison’s Erica Halverson speaks with actor Fraser James and UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah about how these two Black British artists have influenced each other across the years in their art and activism. Halverson, a professor in …
UW–Madison alumna Kimberly Oamek, an incoming assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at UW Oshkosh, has been selected to participate in the inaugural “Inquiry Initiative” sponsored by the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE). Oamek holds a PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, from which she graduated in May 2022. The …
UW–Madison alumna Yun-Wen Chan is the recipient of a prestigious award from the Taiwanese government. Chan, who earned her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 2019, has been awarded the Ministry of Science and Technology’s 2022 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grant for Young Scholars. The purpose of these grants is to encourage …
The UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge program was spotlighted in Up North News recently in an article that is headlined, “The University of Wisconsin Gets Creative to Recruit, Train, and Retain the Next Generation of Teachers.” In addition to providing an overview of how the program works, the article shares quotes from current students that were originally included …
Experts in politics, civic education, and media literacy will gather at UW–Madison later this month to provide a day of training and support for educators preparing to teach about the 2022 midterm elections. The Teaching About the 2022 Elections conference acknowledges that educators face a unique challenge in teaching about elections this year. As the midterms draw …
UW–Madison alumna Ann Dallman published the second book in her award-winning middle-grade series — the Cady Whirlwind Thunder Mysteries — in June. Dallman earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism education from the School of Education in 1970. The series follows the adventures of Cady Whirlwind Thunder, a 13-year-old girl of Native American heritage who is attending …
The UW–Madison School of Education is bringing in another large, talented, and diverse cohort of new faculty members to campus for the start of the upcoming fall semester. To welcome these newest members of our community — and to reconnect with colleagues and celebrate the start of the upcoming 2022-23 academic year — the School …