By Karen Rivedel, WCER Communications Work is underway on six new collaborations for 2021 between UW−Madison researchers and educators in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD). With total funding of $100,000, the research teams will explore equity in learning and teaching amid the constraints and challenges of COVID-19. The six awards — one for $50,000 …
UW–Madison’s Emily Machado is first author of a new paper for the International Literacy Association. Machado is an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She wrote the paper with Paul Hartman, a teacher at Hamline Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois. The paper, titled “’It Took Us a Long Time to …
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $5 million to fund an interdisciplinary, multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). The project is based at UW–Madison, and Maxine McKinney de Royston, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is on the …
The UW–Madison Community Arts Collaboratory is receiving an NEA Research Lab award to support a new study examining the value of community arts education initiatives. “The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to welcome UW–Madison’s Community Arts Collaboratory into the network of labs across the country that are doing important work in this …
UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings was featured in the Capital Times recently, as part of the newspaper’s “What did we learn?” series of interviews with Madison educators, organizers, and leaders looking back at lessons they took from 2020. Ladson-Billings is a professor emerita in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is also the president …
UW–Madison’s Matthew Hora, Pallavi Chhabra, and Bailey Smolarek co-authored a recent article in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice, titled “Exploring the Factors that Influence How (And Why) Community College Instructors Teach Communication and Teamwork Skills in Computer Technology Courses.” Hora is the director of UW–Madison’s Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions (CCWT), which is …
UW–Madison alumnus Kenneth Teitelbaum has authored a new book, “Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling: Curriculum, Teaching, and Socio-Political Realities,” which was published by Routledge in May 2020. Teitelbaum earned his doctorate from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum in Instruction in 1985. “Focusing on a wide range of critical issues, this book provides a comprehensive analysis …
Education Week blogger Rick Hess published his annual rankings of the top 200 most influential education scholars in the United States recently, and once again several faculty members with ties to UW–Madison and its School of Education are on the list. UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings is up to No. 2 this year, while Adam Gamoran is No. 123, Jerlando Jackson is No. …
The School of Education’s Career Center and Teacher Education Center are hosting a virtual PREP (Professional Resources for Educator Preparation) Conference, via Zoom on Jan. 12, 14, 19, and 21. The PREP Conference is a teacher education professional development conference focused on job search preparation. UW–Madison pre-education majors and declared education majors in both undergraduate and graduate …
The Capital Times newspaper spotlighted a new collaboration between the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and UW–Madison’s School of Education in an article focused on how the district is shifting its approach to teaching reading in an effort to boost literacy among its students. The new Early Literacy and Beyond Task Force — which will include seven …