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 aims to meet …
Brenda Spychalla, a distinguished information processing consultant emerita for the School of Education’s MERIT, is one of 11 UW–Madison employees who are recipients of this year’s Academic Staff Excellence Awards. Spychalla, who before her retirement in 2021 was the co-director of MERIT and the co-chief information officer for the School of Education, will receive the …
A project team that includes students who are pursuing degrees within the UW–Madison School of Education is a recipient of an Emerging Artist Award in this year’s UW–Madison Arts Business Competition. The award, which is new this year, is granted to applicant groups whose proposals demonstrate a strong potential for success. The award-winning project team includes …
Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) proudly presents “terza rima; Writings on the Body” on April 29 and 30, in collaboration with the UW–Madison School of Education’s Dance Department and the Department of French and Italian. Li Chiao-Ping, the artistic director of Li Chiao-Ping Dance, is the Sally Banes Professor of Dance and a Vilas Research Professor in the Dance Department. …
Julia Eklund Koza’s book, “ ‘Destined to Fail:’ Carl Seashore’s World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music,” has been selected as the winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2021 by the Curriculum Studies division of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Koza is a professor emerita in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and …
Michigan State University Provost Teresa K. Woodruff has recommended Jerlando F. L. Jackson to be the next dean of MSU’s College of Education, effective July 1. The recommendation is subject to approval by the MSU Board of Trustees. Jackson has spent more than two decades on the UW–Madison campus and is currently chair of the School …
UW–Madison graduate student Khadejah Ray has been awarded a Minority Dissertation Fellowship from the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Ray is a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. The one-year research fellowship includes $25,000 to support Ray’s dissertation research, and she will be required to present her work …
The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2022 Annual Meeting is being held in San Diego April 21-26. And once again, faculty, staff, and students with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) are being well-represented at this major event. According to information collected by the department, 31 sessions taking place …
UW–Madison’s Brittany Travers, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2022-23. Travers will travel to the University of Málaga in Spain during the spring of 2023, where she will further her research focused on testing and improving balance in autistic youth. In her …
By Doug Erickson Art inspired and empowered Dawry Ruiz as a teenager. Now he hopes to spread its motivating force to other young people. Ruiz, a UW–Madison junior, will have help in that career goal as the recipient of a 2022 Truman Scholarship, one of the most prestigious honors for undergraduates in the country. The …