UW–Madison alumna Suzanne Holman was recently nominated to represent the Farmington Municipal School District in Farmington, New Mexico, as District Teacher of the Year for 2021. Out of the 22,021 teachers in New Mexico, she was named one of the top four finalists for Teacher of the Year. Each year since the program began in …
What a year it has been! Since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, we faced challenges that few could have envisioned. Despite 2020 being such a unique year, our School of Education has retained its sense of optimism — and a belief in big ideas. As 2020 draws to a close, let’s take …
UW–Madison alumna Katrina Liu recently published a book titled, “Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning: Understanding ePortfolios in Teacher Education.” Aimed at educators and ePortfolio designers, the book “provides a research-based guide to using ePortfolios to develop critically reflective teachers capable of transformative learning for educational equity,” notes the description on the Springer Education website. The description continues: …
Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education announced on Monday, Dec. 14, the formation of a joint Early Literacy and Beyond Task Force that will focus on analyzing the most promising approaches to teaching reading and making recommendations to MMSD and to teacher education programs at UW-Madison toward the goals of …
By L Malik Anderson This article originally appeared in Badger Vibes. In July, Crystal Stonewall was selected to the Wisconsin Law Review just before her second year at the UW Law School. “I was super happy to be offered a spot on the Wisconsin Law Review,” says Stonewall, who expects to graduate from law school in …
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: Emily Machado Title, including department and school: assistant professor of early childhood education with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction Hometown: I’m originally from northern …
UW–Madison’s Christopher Kirchgasler has published an article in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education that is titled, “The end(s) of inclusion: ungrounding globalization and ‘the migrant’ in dialogue with hospitality.” Kirchgasler is an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. The article “reassesses globalization in light of research, policy, and reforms …
Duduzile Lunga, who attended UW–Madison as an international exchange student in the fall of 2018, is a finalist for KFM 94.5’s Teacher of the Year award in Cape Town, South Africa. Lunga is one of 10 finalists the radio station selected out of over 3,500 nominees. Lunga is a math teacher at Pinelands High School in Cape …
UW–Madison’s Christopher Kirchgasler was featured with Karishma Desai on a recent episode of the FreshEd podcast, speaking about the Comparative Education Review article they co-authored titled, “ ‘Girl’ in Crisis: Colonial Residues of Domesticity in Transnational School Reforms.” Kirchgasler is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Desai is an assistant professor at Rutgers …
The Capital Times newspaper reported on a new research brief from the Madison Education Partnership (MEP) that highlights a need for better communication between 4-year-old kindergarten teachers and their 5-year-old kindergarten counterparts in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) to improve student outcomes. The Madison Education Partnership is housed within the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research. …