Category: School News

Alum and future faculty member Stovall wins AERA Dissertation Award

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Jessica Stovall has received the 2024 Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Critical Educators for Social Justice special interest group.  The Dissertation Award recognizes doctoral-level research that utilizes critical theory and critical methodologies. Stovall’s winning dissertation is titled, “‘We’re part of something way bigger’: The transformative potential of Black teacher fugitive space.”  …

Memoir by UW–Madison alum reflects on friend’s death from Covid

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UW–Madison alumna Barbara Seyda, who earned her bachelor’s degree from the School of Education’s Art Department in 1980, has a forthcoming memoir that is titled, “Gaudy Sorrow.” “Gaudy Sorrow” is described as “a surreal, epistolary memoir” about Seyda’s Basque friend who died of Covid on Christmas Eve. The book, published by Finishing Line Press, is …

New Faculty Focus: Q&A with Omari ‘Motion’ Carter

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Omari “Motion” Carter, who comes to UW–Madison from London, England, is a new assistant professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department. He started his role in Jan. 2024 and teaches the dances of hip-hop culture, body percussion, and screendance practice. Recently, the School of Education communications team asked Carter to answer some questions to …

New UW–Madison study traces spread of anti-LGBTQ+ bills and policies in Midwestern states

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By Laurel White A new UW–Madison study sheds light on how state and local government laws, policies, and proposals limiting LGBTQ+ students’ rights have proliferated in recent years, how those policies harm students, and how states and school boards have failed to respond to federal court rulings related to LGBTQ+ inclusivity.  The study, published in …

Shining a light on neurodiversity in higher ed

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By Jill Schaefer and Autumn Sanchez, Division of Continuing Studies Megan Reilly always felt like something was different about her, but she couldn’t pinpoint it. As an undergraduate, she needed to know why she had to complete an assignment or task. If she didn’t, she might simply refuse to do it, much to the confusion of her …

Research project offers path to anti-racist policy changes for school leaders

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By Laurel White As American public schools continue to reckon with widespread racial inequities, a School of Education research project is working to offer support and build understanding of how school leaders can facilitate anti-racist policy changes.  Over the past two years, researchers from the UW–Madison School of Education and the University of Missouri have …

UW–Madison’s Abdu’Allah is named Wisconsin Academy Fellow

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UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah is one of 16 extraordinary Wisconsinites being honored with a 2024 Fellows Award from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. This award, which honors high levels of accomplishment and a demonstrated lifelong commitment to intellectual discourse and public service, is the highest recognition conferred by the Wisconsin Academy. “I am …

New book from UW–Madison’s Winkle-Wagner documents decades of Black women’s vital community-building in higher education

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By Laurel White Black women seek out, build, and maintain vibrant communities of support in order to survive and thrive in college and other higher education environments, according to a new book from a School of Education faculty member.  The book, “The Chosen We: Black Women’s Empowerment in Higher Education,” is built upon oral histories …

UW–Madison alum champions adaptive physical education program in Wisconsin school district

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By Sofie Schachter UW–Madison alumnus Andrew Sokol, a 2022 graduate of the School of Education’sPhysical Education Teacher Education program, pioneered an adaptive physical education program in his Oak Creek, Wisconsin, elementary school that has now spread throughout the district.  Students in the program receive an extra day of PE each week, catered specifically to their …

University Theatre presents ‘Wine in the Wilderness’ March 7-17

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By Kari Dickinson When audiences enter the Mitchell Theatre for University Theatre’s newest production, “Wine in the Wilderness,” they may be surprised to see a camera crew setting up as if to film a television show.  “We’ve set it in a TV studio,” says director Mark Hairston (Mark H.), an assistant professor in the School …