This is the online edition of Learning Connections, a news magazine from the UW-Madison School of Education. The Summer 2019 issue is filled with exciting news about School of Education faculty, staff, students and alumni. A pdf of the Summer Learning Connections is available here. Summer 2019 edition highlights include: Keep in Touch! The School of Education …
Evaluation and policy clinics give graduate students opportunities to build partnerships and connect research to practice Annalee Good started her career in education by teaching middle school social studies and civics in rural Spring Green, Wisconsin, more than two decades ago. After three years, she moved west for a two-year stint in a similar position …
Historic ‘All of Us’ project creating largest health database ever Dorothy Farrar Edwards is helping lead UW-Madison’s participation in the nationwide All of Us Research Program, an effort to compile the largest representative medical database ever to accelerate research and improve health. In an effort to better reflect the full diversity of the United States, a …
The work of UW-Madison’s Tom Jones and John Hitchcock was showcased in the “Original Warrior” exhibit housed at the National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago last October through April 22, 2019. Curated by Jones and Ash Kyrie, “Original Warrior” showcases the work of Native American artists. Many of the artists are also veterans, and all …
UW-Madison’s Robert Enright spent five weeks earlier this year overseas delivering presentations and workshops related to his groundbreaking forgiveness work. The person Time magazine once called “the forgiveness trailblazer” engaged with audiences that included correctional facility innovators, cancer specialists, educational leaders, and more. Enright, a professor with the Department of Educational Psychology and the founder …
One of the things I value most about the School of Education is the sense of community. We have a wide range of departments and programs but we are all bound by a common purpose: enriching lives and making the world a better place. We know that one of the best ways to work toward …
1940s Anna HalprinBS 1942 — DanceIn October 2018 the de Young Museum in San Francisco celebrated Anna with “Body Radical,” a two-weekend series of performances, film screenings, workshops, and participatory events. The exhibition included her “Planetary Dance,” a community ritual for peace in their own communities and with the earth that was featured at the …
Reyes receives Campbell Lifetime Achievement award Pedro Reyes, an alumnus of UW– Madison, was honored by the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) with the Campbell Lifetime Achievement award. Reyes earned his doctorate from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 1985 before spending time with the department as an …
The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2019 Annual Meeting was held in Toronto, Canada, April 5–9, and UW–Madison faculty, staff, students, and alumni were again well represented. AERA and its 25,000 members from around the world form an interdisciplinary research association that’s devoted to the scientific study of education and learning. UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal earned one of …
Buff Brennan spends career encouraging, supporting dance students Mary (Buff) Brennan doesn’t remember her first dance class, as a 3-year-old. “Of course it was ballet, because when you’re 3, that’s what you do,” she says. Somewhat later, Brennan, who has been called Buff since her days as a camp counselor, discovered modern dance. It changed …