The Summer 2022 edition of Learning Connections, a magazine for alumni and friends of the UW–Madison School of Education, is now posted online. This latest issue centers on “Rising to the Challenge.” The nation is divided on a range of topics and ongoing divisions are making it difficult to solve problems. In this environment, School of …
1950s Doris EberleinBS 1951 — Social Group Work/Art EducationDoris interned at the Madison YWCA. She worked as the adult program director at the Wausau (Wisconsin) YWCA and is the founder of the Wausau Child Center. Marilyn Grabin PutzBS 1954 — Physical EducationAfter a long career of teaching, Marilyn retired and began working for an animal hospital …
By Todd Finkelmeyer Sofia Garcia Garbuno endured experiences as a young student that no one should have to. After moving from Chicago to the suburbs, Garbuno was placed in special education coursework because it was assumed they didn’t understand English (Garbuno did, and is fluent in English and Spanish). Around second grade, Garbuno also recalls …
In February, both CNN and Madison’s local CBS affiliate, WISC-TV/Ch. 3, put a spotlight on the UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge in reports that drew attention to a teacher shortage problem in some parts of Wisconsin and the nation. The Teacher Pledge, part of the School of Education’s Impact 2030 initiative, provides financial support — including …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications UW–Madison researchers teamed with the New England conservation nonprofit Mass Audubon to create the free, online learning game iPlan that uses a variety of state and federal datasets to help players simulate different land-use scenarios and see the changing effects on their community. “When people use iPlan they learn that …
By Kari Dickinson In 2020, there were over 30,000 Spanish-speaking English learners — or “emergent bilingual” — K-12 students in Wisconsin schools. However, less than 35 percent of these learners were enrolled in bilingual-bicultural programming. One reason for this is a shortage of bilingual educators statewide, and a new certificate program from the UW–Madison School of Education …
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, received a three-year, $897,000 grant from the Institute for Education Sciences to work on the development of probabilistic forecasting approaches to model trends toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, the United Nations identified equitable, …
UW–Madison’s Sadhana Puntambekar is the lead author on a paper that was recognized by the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST) as one of its Research Worth Reading awards. The paper being recognized is titled, “Supporting middle school students’ science talk: A comparison of physical and virtual labs.” This award is given to three …
Spencer Foundation grant supports study of health outcomes for Black women in academia By Todd Finkelmeyer A team of Black women doctoral students from the UW–Madison School of Education is playing a leading role in a major new study examining how racial stress within higher education relates to health outcomes for Black women in academia. …
By Laurel White After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the harsh reality of health inequity in Wisconsin and across the United States, the first graduates of the School of Education’s new program aimed at bolstering health education and combating inequity are entering the workforce. Seventy-six graduates are leaving campus with a …