Three individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have been named to the fifth cohort of Morgridge Fellows. They are: The 14 fellows — from across the campus community — were selected through a juried process to participate in a year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship. Community-engaged scholarship is defined …
UW–Madison student Janel Anderson has been selected to attend the Philosophical Perspectives on Care Institute from July 12 – 29 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Anderson is a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA). The institute, which has been made possible in part by a major grant from the …
Would you like to improve classroom discussions to better engage students and help them learn your course content and skills? A three-day professional learning opportunity for UW–Madison instructors, The Discussion Project focuses on developing skills in leading high-quality, small- and large-group discussion in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. The course is also part of the Discussion Project Measures …
The UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) hosted a festschrift on June 3 to honor longtime faculty members Julie Mead and Julie Underwood (“the Julies”) on the occasion of their retirements. A festschrift is a collection of work by different authors presented in honor of a scholar. Instead of …
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was named an international guest professor and will spend three months at the Institute für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at Heidelberg University in Germany. The professorship is part of the project “Expanding Internationality,” a component of the university’s Excellence …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications Congratulations to Shahanna McKinney-Baldon and Annalee Good of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC), housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, for receiving a $115,000 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant for their proposal to help youth better lead improvements in their schools and neighborhoods. “Our K–12 schools require change driven by those closest to the …
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 …