By Laurel White One of the most highly respected education journals in the country has released a special issue this summer, co-edited by a UW-Madison School of Education faculty member, dedicated to research about the experiences of transgender elementary and high school students. The special issue of the journal Educational Researcher, titled “Trans Studies in K12 Education,” is aimed …
By Kari Dickinson The UW–Madison School of Education’s Early Career Teaching Institute will host a public keynote address by Juliana Urtubey, the 2021 National Teacher of the Year, on Tuesday, July 26, at 4 p.m. Both the presentation and reception that follows are in Varsity Hall at Union South, and are free and open to the public. However, registration is …
By Todd Finkelmeyer As an undergraduate majoring in linguistics at UW–Madison in the late 1970s, Kathleen T. Horning found herself at a crossroads — and took a fortuitous turn into the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC). As Horning recalls the situation, she loved linguistics but not its job prospects. So she decided to pursue certification to be able …
By WCER Communications Field Day Lab’s newest online learning game, The Legend of the Lost Emerald — an immersive, boldly illustrated point-and-click adventure game that teaches while it entertains — won its first accolades recently with a top prize in the 2022 International Serious Play Awards Program in Orlando, Florida. The free game invites young students to “step into …
By Kari Dickinson The UW–Madison Community Arts Collaboratory, housed in the School of Education’s office of Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE), is the recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Madison Arts Commission through its “Artists at Work” subgrant program. The grant will support providing continuous, part-time employment to three teaching artists as part of the Arts Collaboratory’s …
By Laurel White A new study from UW-Madison researchers could lead to more effective chronic pain treatment for Gulf War veterans. According to the study, which was published this month in the journal JNeurosci, Gulf War veterans who experience chronic pain have larger pain-processing regions and smaller pain regulation regions in their brains than their healthy peers. The …
By Kari Dickinson Michelle (Chell) Parkins was recently named the inaugural Arnhold Director in Dance Education with UW–Madison’s Dance Department, a position she will start on Aug. 1. This new position was made possible by a gift from dance advocate, educator, and founder of the Dance Education Laboratory Jody Gottfried Arnhold (BA 1965) and her husband John Arnhold. Their …
UW–Madison’s Erin Gill was featured in a blog series from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) that is showcasing IES-funded education researchers and fellows that are making significant contributions to education research, policy, and practice. Gill is a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and a predoctoral fellow with the IES-funded Interdisciplinary …
UW–Madison student Lauren Aria is one of 10 university seniors nationwide who were selected for the Center for Craft’s prestigious Windgate-Lamar Fellowship for emerging craft artists for 2022. Aria is expected to graduate from the School of Education’s Art Department, concentrating on glass, in August 2022. “My work explores flow, viscosity, and corporeality through performance and …
By Laurel White Decades of pioneering work on the vast personal and social benefits of forgiveness — from reducing individuals’ anxiety and aggression to fostering better cross-cultural communication amid political conflict — have earned UW-Madison’s Robert Enright one of psychology’s rarest and highest lifetime achievement awards. Enright’s scientific study of forgiveness has had a “game-changing impact …