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 Craig Albers shared his thoughts on the stress parents are experiencing making school decisions this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic in a news report for WSAW-TV in Wausau. Albers, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology and co-director of the Rural Education Research and Implementation Center (RERIC), spoke about the unique concerns that …
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, …
By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications In early April, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, a call went out to a select community around the world to come together to make sense of a senseless pandemic. Forced lockdowns, the collapse of world economies, isolation, fears of infection, and mostly the hundreds of thousands of lives …
By University Communications UW–Madison plans to begin fall classes as scheduled on Sept. 2 and offer in-person instruction in many courses until the Thanksgiving recess, the university announced on Wednesday, June 17. The course array and the modality of instruction will be determined by departments, working with the deans of their respective school or college. This will include course instruction plans for students not able to return to the …
The following message from Dean Diana Hess was emailed to students, staff, and faculty across the School of Education on Monday, June 15: Dear School of Education students, staff, and faculty, Many years ago, as a high school teacher, I was working to better understand why it is that people are often better able to …
Eleven faculty and instructors from across UW–Madison have been named Morgridge Fellows, including several with ties to the School of Education. The fellows were selected through a juried process to participate in the year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship, defined as: teaching, research, and scholarly activities that are performed in equitable, …
M Cecil Smith, an alumnus of UW-Madison, will become the dean of Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale’s reorganized School of Education on July 13, pending approval of the SIU Board of Trustees. The announcement came via this SIU news release on May 20. Smith earned his PhD from the human development program within the School of Education’s …
UW-Madison’s Mitchell Nathan and Martha Alibali took part in a virtual panel discussion on May 19 hosted by the Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition (EMIC) team. The 90-minute event — titled “Instructional Gestures for Classrooms and On-Line Mathematics Learning” — was recorded and can be accessed via this EMIC web page. The panel focused its efforts on examining …
UW-Madison’s Pauline Ho recently received the UW-Madison Global Health Institute’s (GHI) Graduate Student Award Grant. Ho is a PhD student within the human development area of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. The award will fund her project, “Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health: The Role of Meaning-making and Residential History.” This work was selected …