A new School of Education faculty member, David Klingbeil, is a recipient the prestigious Lightner Witmer Award for early career scholarship from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association. Klingbeil is an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Psychology. According to the association’s website: “Each year the Division of School Psychology presents the Lightner Witmer …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications The Madison Education Partnership (MEP) will release a report by the end of August detailing what worked and what didn’t at the close of a two-year project to help teachers in the Madison Metropolitan School District’s four-year-old kindergarten (4K) program strengthen the depth and rigor of its instruction, especially in math. The …
UW–Madison’s Kathryn Moeller is the author of an article published in the journal Educational Researcher, titled “Accounting for the Corporate: An Analytic Framework for Understanding Corporations in Education.” “Corporations have become one of the dominant institutions of our time with extensive power and influence over educational systems around the world,” writes Moeller. “In size and profit, many …
The UW–Madison School of Education is welcoming 16 new faculty members to campus during the upcoming 2020-21 academic year, which is one of the largest cohorts to sign on with the School since its founding in 1930. “What makes our School so unique and outstanding is the depth and breadth of outstanding faculty members across …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications As all aspects of American society face a national reckoning on racism and police brutality, new UW−Madison research is providing a playbook that employers and higher education professionals can use to help Black student interns cope with the continuing public protests against anti-Black violence. Recognizing the “psychological tax” borne by …
UW–Madison’s Maxine McKinney de Royston is the lead author of an article published in the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), titled “‘I’m a Teacher, I’m Gonna Always Protect You’: Understanding Black Educators’ Protection of Black Children.” The article, which McKinney de Royston co-authored with Tia C. Madkins (University of Texas at Austin), Jarvis R. Givens (Harvard University), …
Mollie McQuillan, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, is one of three UW–Madison investigators who have been awarded a 2020 Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Pilot Program grant. McQuillan was awarded a grant for her research project investigating the work experiences and health of trans …
School districts across the state and around the country are struggling to find enough qualified teachers — and these staffing challenges are growing. In an effort to help bolster Wisconsin’s teacher workforce and give the state’s schoolchildren access to the high-quality educators they deserve, the UW–Madison School of Education launched a bold new program Tuesday, …
Zara González Hoang, a 2002 alumna of the School of Education’s Art Department, has written and illustrated a new picture book, titled “A New Kind of Wild.” Published by Penguin Random House, the book “celebrates imagination, the magic of friendship, and all the different ways we make a new place feel like home.” From the …
The UW–Madison School of Education’s offices of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (OEDI), and Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE) will host a symposium, Leading Antiracist School Communities, on Thursday, Aug. 27, from 3 to 5 p.m. “Leading Antiracist School Communities means creating and promoting school cultures that value and support inclusive curriculum, pedagogy, and policies, while …