UW–Madison’s Yeohyun Ahn and Esther Cho were invited to present their project, “Hangul Alphabet,” at the Virtual Design Education Forum 2021, taking place Nov. 11-12. Ahn is an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, and Cho is an MFA student within the Art Department. Taekyeom Lee, an assistant professor of graphic design at Iowa …
Helen Lee has been named the faculty director of The Studio, UW–Madison’s residential creative arts community for first- and second-year undergraduate students. Lee is an associate professor in the School of Education’s Art Department. She is an artist, designer, and educator, who holds an MFA in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and a bachelor’s …
The Culturally Responsive Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (CRPBIS) research center at UW–Madison has published a study in the leading journal Race, Ethnicity, and Education, titled “Transformative agency for justice: Addressing racialization of school discipline with the Indigenous Learning Laboratory.” The study was co-authored by UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal, a professor in the School of Education’s Department …
UW–Madison’s Brian Burt is the lead author of a new paper published in the Teachers College Record that examines Black male graduate students’ advising experiences in engineering — with the researchers theorizing that more caring relationships could assist students in earning their degree. This work is important because it’s estimated that more than half of …
By Mike Klein A new state-of-the art facility to support student and community health will nearly triple the size of the former Natatorium, serving more students and community members with recreational and well-being services. The $113.2 million facility will be named the Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center. The gift and details were announced today in …
WIDA Español, a program of UW–Madison’s WIDA, has released Marco de referencia de las artes del lenguaje del español de WIDA (Marco ALE), a Spanish language arts framework. Marco ALE is the first framework of its kind in the U.S., providing the key elements for developing standards and teaching Spanish language arts in grades K–12. Marco ALE guides …
UW–Madison’s Li-Ching Ho is a co-author of a new book that is titled, “Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Knowledge, and Action in Social and Civic Education.” Ho is a professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, as well as the faculty director of the School’s Global Engagement Office. Ho wrote the book …
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan is the author of a new book that is titled, “Foundations of Embodied Learning: A Paradigm for Education,” published by Routledge. Nathan is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. In a blog post, Nathan said he wrote the book “to share the large body of evidence …
Program aims to bolster and diversify teacher workforce Madison College students preparing to become elementary or special education teachers will have a direct pipeline to the UW–Madison School of Education thanks to a new transfer agreement that guarantees admission into these teacher preparation programs for students who meet the requirements. A press conference and agreement …
By WCER Communications An inaugural research brief from WCER Principal Investigator Xueli Wang’s NSF-funded study of change and innovation in technical education finds institutions in the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) moved rapidly in response to the pandemic, revamping services and instructional practices to holistically serve students and meet their critical needs. These supports include food, …