By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications The Madison Education Partnership (MEP) will release a report by the end of August detailing what worked and what didn’t at the close of a two-year project to help teachers in the Madison Metropolitan School District’s four-year-old kindergarten (4K) program strengthen the depth and rigor of its instruction, especially in math. The …
UW–Madison’s Gloria Ladson-Billings and John Diamond said we shouldn’t rush to “go back to normal” this school year, because of the growing inequities that students face in the school system. Ladson-Billings is a professor emerita with the School of Education, and Diamond holds the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Ladson-Billings …
The UW–Madison School of Education is welcoming 16 new faculty members to campus during the upcoming 2020-21 academic year, which is one of the largest cohorts to sign on with the School since its founding in 1930. “What makes our School so unique and outstanding is the depth and breadth of outstanding faculty members across …
UW–Madison’s Maxine McKinney de Royston is the lead author of an article published in the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), titled “‘I’m a Teacher, I’m Gonna Always Protect You’: Understanding Black Educators’ Protection of Black Children.” The article, which McKinney de Royston co-authored with Tia C. Madkins (University of Texas at Austin), Jarvis R. Givens (Harvard University), …
School districts across the state and around the country are struggling to find enough qualified teachers — and these staffing challenges are growing. In an effort to help bolster Wisconsin’s teacher workforce and give the state’s schoolchildren access to the high-quality educators they deserve, the UW–Madison School of Education launched a bold new program Tuesday, …
The Wisconsin State Journal utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Beth Graue in an article providing parents with advice on how to approach the upcoming school year, given that many school districts are beginning the year with hybrid or virtual learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Graue is the Sorenson Professor of Early Childhood Education with the School …
The UW–Madison School of Education’s offices of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (OEDI), and Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE) will host a symposium, Leading Antiracist School Communities, on Thursday, Aug. 27, from 3 to 5 p.m. “Leading Antiracist School Communities means creating and promoting school cultures that value and support inclusive curriculum, pedagogy, and policies, while …
Two professors from UW–Madison’s School of Education discussed how the Black Lives Matter movement is reshaping education with WORT-FM’s “A Public Affair” program. The segment was titled, “How Black Lives Matter is Changing Education.” Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor emerita, and Maxine McKinney de Royston, an assistant professor with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, were interviewed …
UW-Madison alumna Liza Wiemer’s upcoming young adult (YA) novel, “The Assignment,” is being published for release on Aug. 25. Wiemer graduated from the School of Education in 1986 with a BS in elementary education. “The Assignment” follows a group of students as they must grapple with a school assignment that encourages intolerance and discrimination. As …
Five members of the School of Education community will be featured in the Wisconsin Public Education Network’s upcoming summer summit, “Public Education and Democracy,” which will take place virtually on Friday, July 24. John Diamond and Gloria Ladson-Billings are both keynote speakers for the event. Diamond is the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education …