Nancy Kendall, a professor and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies, is one of 11 UW–Madison faculty members being honored this year with a Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award. This award recognizes research and teaching excellence, and provides flexible research funding for three years. Vilas professorships and awards are supported …
Two groups in the School of Education are teaming up to share information from their on-campus colleagues with the broader, off-campus community. The Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative and Everyday Academics are producing short videos that highlight UW–Madison researchers, faculty, staff, and students who share a few of the guiding principles about their work. So far, there …
UW–Madison alumna Liza Wiemer’s upcoming young adult (YA) novel, “The Assignment,” is being published for release on Aug. 25. Wiemer graduated from the School of Education in 1986 with a BS in elementary education. “The Assignment” follows a group of students as they must grapple with a school assignment that encourages intolerance and discrimination. As …
Five members of the School of Education community will be featured in the Wisconsin Public Education Network’s upcoming summer summit, “Public Education and Democracy,” which will take place virtually on Friday, July 24. John Diamond and Gloria Ladson-Billings are both keynote speakers for the event. Diamond is the Kellner Family Distinguished Chair in Urban Education …
By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications In early April, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, a call went out to a select community around the world to come together to make sense of a senseless pandemic. Forced lockdowns, the collapse of world economies, isolation, fears of infection, and mostly the hundreds of thousands of lives …
By Preston Schmitt, University Marketing for the Division of Continuing Studies Cindy Kuhrasch believes that movement is simply a means of learning. And with the pandemic putting a pause on organized activity, the head of UW–Madison’s Physical Education Teacher Education program is proving that movement can take just about any form – if you use your …
The Student Success Through Applied Research (SSTAR) Lab, directed by UW–Madison’s Nick Hillman, has launched a new series on its website titled, “Student Debt in Wisconsin.” “It is surprisingly difficult to find authoritative and timely data on this topic,” explains the main web page for the series, “yet doing so can help inform public discussions …
Carlton Jenkins, an alumnus of UW–Madison’s School of Education, was recently named the superintendent of the Madison Metropolitan School District, a position he will begin on Aug. 4. Jenkins earned both his master’s (1993) and PhD (2009) from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. On July 15, The Capital Times …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications As teachers, students, and families wind down from months of in-home teaching and learning, they are beginning to reflect on what worked and what didn’t and plan for the inevitable: more virtual class time. But a team of researchers at WIDA, based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a leader …
The Discussion Project added new rounds of virtual trainings after slots for programs starting July 20 quickly filled. The next round of sessions begin Aug. 17. The Discussion Project Virtual is an online training that supports UW–Madison instructors in creating the conditions for equitable, inclusive, and engaging online discussions. Access the application, which is open through July 31, here. …