By Käri Knutson, University Communications A search-and-screen committee has been appointed to help identify and select candidates for UW–Madison’s next deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, vice provost, and chief diversity officer. The committee is being chaired by Jerlando Jackson, professor and department chair in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the School of …
Several faculty members from the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology will be participating in an online panel discussion, “What You Don’t Know About Exercise,” on Friday, Apr. 9, at noon. The event is part of the Wisconsin Idea Spotlight series hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. During the program, moderated by Gary Diffee, professor and chair of …
Screen.Dance 2021, Scotland’s festival of dance on screen, announced its 2021 festival awards. The jury members selected four works for festival awards and four for special mentions in two main competitive categories — UK and International. This year the International category uniquely recognized three additional contenders from three curated festival programs: Growing Up, Going Out and Staying In. UW–Madison’s …
UW–Madison’s Jin-Wen Yu, a professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department, will present “Non-Ordinary,” a concert of contemporary, cross-cultural, cutting-edge dance, on April 10-11 in Taipei, Taiwan. The concert is shared with emerging Taiwanese choreographer Chien-Kuei Chang, featuring 10 outstanding Taiwanese professional dancers. Yu will present a sextet, titled “Non-Ordinary Position,” that explores the idea of …
UW–Madison’s Xueli Wang is receiving the 2021 Outstanding Publication Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Division J (Postsecondary Education) for her groundbreaking work, “On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways.” Released in April 2020, this book examines ways to improve the higher education landscape in an effort …
UW–Madison alumna Deniece Dortch is receiving the Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Emerging Scholarship from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Multicultural/Multiethnic Education special interest group (SIG). Dortch received her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2016. The purpose of this award is to recognize an …
UW–Madison alumna Jessie Nixon co-authored a blog post published by Sesame Workshop’s Joan Ganz Cooney Center that is titled, “Youth Voice for Teacher Empowerment.” Nixon earned her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Currently, she is an education engagement specialist at PBS Wisconsin Education focused on 3rd- through 12th-grade content. Nixon co-authored the …
New research from UW–Madison’s WIDA, housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, has appeared in a paper in Teaching and Teacher Education. The paper, titled “A close look at teacher learning: Why are teachers’ journeys so different?” was authored by Daniella Molle, an associate researcher at WIDA. Molle explains in the paper’s abstract: …
A new resource for educators of multilingual children is available from UW–Madison’s WIDA, housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research. The WIDA Focus Bulletin, titled “Promoting Equity for Young Multilingual Children,” offers ideas for taking a language–focused approach to equitable caregiving and instructional practice in early childhood education (ECE) settings. It also highlights voices …
UW–Madison’s School of Education and several of its programs are rated among the very best in the nation according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 30. UW–Madison is home to the fourth-ranked school of education in the nation — marking the eighth straight year it has been rated …