By Laurel White A School of Education faculty member recently helped develop the first validated tool to measure youth sport specialization while considering physical, motivational, and social characteristics of sport participation. Youth sport specialization is defined as “the intentional and focused participation in a single sport for a majority of the year that restricts opportunities for …
UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah — the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art and associate dean for the arts in the School of Education — is organizing a panel discussion titled “Flip it and Reverse it: Experimentation and Collaboration from the Print Studio to the Classroom” at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London, taking place Nov. 13–16. Presented in …
UW–Madison’s Megan Reilly, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Theatre and Drama, has been nominated for an award for production design by the B. Iden Payne Awards Council, which honors excellence in theatrical performance, production, and design in the Austin, Texas area. Reilly was nominated for an Outstanding Media Design award for …
By Laurel White The most expensive programs aimed at supporting graduation rates at community colleges don’t necessarily serve the most students, according to a new working paper from a UW–Madison faculty member. The working paper, published by Annenberg Institute at Brown University, analyzed annual costs of six common strategies for supporting community college student success: basic …
By Karen Rivedal, Office of Research & Scholarship A nationwide UW–Madison research project to increase the number and quality of jobs for individuals with disabilities has achieved an extraordinary record of reach and engagement with essential state workers tasked with helping this underserved population. As the five-year, federally funded project known as the Vocational Rehabilitation Technical …
By Karen Rivedal, Office of Research & Scholarship How can universities and school districts work together to prepare school leaders who champion equity in education? A recent study published in the “Journal of Professional Capital and Community” explores this question through the lens of the Equity-Centered Pipeline Initiative — a six-year, $102 million nationwide effort funded …
By Laurel White Near the end of their six-week professional development program in Madison last fall, three members of the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (FTEA) program from the Czech Republic had an idea. They wanted to bring some of what they experienced at UW–Madison to other teachers in Central and Eastern Europe. After months of …
The UW–Madison School of Education will honor the 2025 recipients of its Rockwell Awards and Lois Gadd Nemec Elementary Education Award during a Nov. 15 celebration on campus. The Rockwell Awards recognize exemplary teachers and other school professionals who mentor and provide high-quality field experiences to UW–Madison students preparing to work in schools. Recipients of …
By Karen Rivedal, Office of Research and Scholarship When Field Day Director David Gagnon wanted to explore making a new online learning game for young students about the Great Lakes, Gagnon’s campus colleague Anne Moser knew immediately what the game should be about — shipwrecks. “I knew that shipwrecks really capture kids’ imaginations,” said Moser, …
A major retrospective of the late Ho-Chunk artist and longtime UW–Madison faculty member Truman Lowe is scheduled to open on Oct. 24 at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. However, due to the ongoing U.S. federal government shutdown, the Smithsonian museums — including the National Museum of the American Indian — …