To celebrate our alumni excellence across the arts, health, and education, the School of Education has selected three trailblazing UW–Madison alumni to honor with a Distinguished Alumni Award. The awards will recognize these talented alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their field. The School of Education will be honoring the three recipients with an …
UW–Madison’s Matthew Hora recently shared his expertise with Bloomberg for their story, “From pepperoni math to nepo babies, summer is for interns.” Hora is an associate professor of adult and higher education with the Division of Continuing Studies and with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. He is also co-director of UW–Madison’s …
By Kari Dickinson This past summer, the UW–Madison School of Education launched four short-term, faculty-led study abroad programs tied to School of Education majors. These programs offered students a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand their worldview and build cultural awareness, all while learning valuable course content and earning credit towards their degrees. Nearly one hundred students …
Sofia Vandersluis graduated from UW–Madison last spring with a degree in elementary education and a certificate in educational policy studies. Now, she is a first-year fourth grade teacher at Heritage Elementary School in Waunakee, Wisconsin. In August, Spectrum News celebrated Vanderslis as an “Everyday Hero” in a story about first-year teachers heading into classrooms amid …
UW–Madison’s Matthew Hora is the lead author of a new paper published in the Journal of Higher Education, titled “Designing Effective Internships: A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Sociocultural Aspects of Intern Satisfaction and Development.” Hora is an associate professor of adult and higher education with the Division of Continuing Studies and with the School of Education’s …
UW–Madison’s Erica Turner, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, will be presenting at the Wisconsin Book Festival this fall. Turner’s research examines racism and inequity — and efforts to challenge those — in education policy and practice. Through her research and teaching she seeks to deepen how we conceptualize policy …
UW–Madison students Abigail Kattre and Andrew Gumieny, both who are pursuing majors in the School of Education, shared about their summer internship experience through the Wisconsin Idea Internship Program in a recent UW Extension story. The Wisconsin Idea Internship Program (WIIP) connects UW–Madison students with the Division of Extension’s programming and research efforts to explore …
By Laurel White Several faculty and staff from the School of Education contributed to a recently released book documenting UW–Madison’s history of global impact. The book, “Wisconsin in the World: Internationalization at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,” was published this summer. With contributions from dozens of faculty and staff across the university, along with colleagues from …
Thomas A. Romberg, a professor emeritus with the UW–Madison School of Education, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023, in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. He was 90 years old. Romberg joined the UW–Madison faculty in 1966, and retired in 2005. Through his almost 40 years on the faculty he became an internationally recognized leader in mathematics education. …
On Sept. 13, UW–Madison’s Lesley Bartlett will give an invited talk for the First International Seminar in Literacy at the State University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Her talk is titled, “Translanguaging as a Strategy for Immigrant Inclusion and Critical Literacy.” Bartlett is a professor and department chair within the School of Education’s Department of …