UW–Madison’s Brian Burt and Blayne Stone are authors of a new article in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, titled “STEM validation among underrepresented students: Leveraging insights from a STEM diversity program to broaden participation.” Burt, the lead author of the article, is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy …
By Erin Gretzinger, Morgridge Center for Public Service With 2020 coming to a close, the Morgridge Center for Public Service says goodbye to beloved professional staff member Beth Tryon. After 11 years of working at the Morgridge Center, Tryon will retire from her position as the assistant director of community-engaged scholarship at the end of December. …
UW–Madison alumna Katrina Liu recently published a book titled, “Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning: Understanding ePortfolios in Teacher Education.” Aimed at educators and ePortfolio designers, the book “provides a research-based guide to using ePortfolios to develop critically reflective teachers capable of transformative learning for educational equity,” notes the description on the Springer Education website. The description continues: …
UW–Madison alumna Saili S. Kulkarni was recently awarded a Re-envisioning Teaching and Teacher Education in the Shadow of the COVID-19 Pandemic (RTTE) grant from Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Kulkarni earned her PhD from the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education in 2015, and is currently an assistant …
Jerlando Jackson received the 2020 Slesinger Award for Excellence in Mentoring during a virtual ceremony on Dec. 3. This award was created to celebrate the often hidden work of individuals who help women faculty members at UW–Madison achieve their goals and reach their highest potential. The award includes $2,500 from the Women’s Philanthropy Council to direct to …
Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education announced on Monday, Dec. 14, the formation of a joint Early Literacy and Beyond Task Force that will focus on analyzing the most promising approaches to teaching reading and making recommendations to MMSD and to teacher education programs at UW-Madison toward the goals of …
Inside Higher Ed reported on a new Third Way report authored by UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman in an article headlined, “Report: Rich Colleges Keep Getting Richer.” Hillman is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and the director of the Student Success through Applied Research (SSTAR) lab. Hillman’s report, which is titled “Why Rich Colleges …
UW–Madison’s Simon Goldberg is the lead author of a new paper published in Psychological Medicine that is titled, “Post-acute psychological effects of classical serotonergic psychedelics: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” Goldberg is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology and an affiliate faculty member with the university’s Center for Healthy Minds (CHM). …
UW–Madison’s John Baldacchino has released two new volumes, including two chapters he authored, in the book series he founded and edits, “Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education.” Baldacchino is a professor in the School of Education’s Art Department. Volume 7 of the series, “Art – Ethics – Education,” was released in Aug. 2020, and …
By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications When Annalee Good, an educational researcher and evaluator from UW–Madison, and her colleagues began studying the use of digital tools in classrooms a decade ago, they never imagined that a global pandemic would drive the adoption of at-home online learning at warp speed. COVID-19 has caused a dramatic, sweeping change to …