By WIDA WIDA, an educational services organization housed in UW–Madison’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), is excited to announce the appointment of Meg Van Voorhis as its inaugural chief educator learning officer (CELO). With her extensive experience and her commitment to our mission, Van Voorhis will play a pivotal role in furthering WIDA’s vision …
UW–Madison’s Mollie McQuillan was recently selected for the William T. Grant Foundation’s competitive Early Career Reviewer Program, which recruits early-career researchers to serve as peer reviewers of grant proposals submitted to the foundation for studies on improving the use of research evidence. McQuillan is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational …
This fall, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) will be hosting two in-person book discussions open to the public. The first discussion will be held Wednesday, Oct. 11, from 4-5:30 p.m. and will focus on new picture books for children and young adults. The second discussion will focus on middle-grade and young adult fiction, and …
By WCER Communications Education experts at UW–Madison are working to ensure that Jewish children of color will be able to see themselves in the school materials they use to help them learn. The Shalom Curriculum Project (SCP) is a skilled coalition of researchers, educators, and community members coming together to address a need in Jewish …
UW–Madison’s Jerry Jordan, an academic and multicultural advisor with the School of Education, is the illustrator of a new book titled, “Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote.” The book is written by Dinah Johnson. According to the publisher, the book is “a stunning picture book biography about the early life of Ida B. Wells, …
By Laurel White Several faculty and staff from the School of Education contributed to a recently released book documenting UW–Madison’s history of global impact. The book, “Wisconsin in the World: Internationalization at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,” was published this summer. With contributions from dozens of faculty and staff across the university, along with colleagues from …
Figure it Sprout, a video game designed by a group of UW–Madison students working out of the School of Education’s Game Lab, housed in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, won the Jennifer Ann’s Group 2023 Critical Thinking Game Design Challenge. The game, designed by students David Li (design), Quang Nguyen (programming), Gaby Sanchez (writing …
Discover the latest developments in fine art, craft, and design at the UW–Madison Art Department’s free public lectures by some of the nation’s most prominent artists, critics, and gallery and museum directors. The Art Department’s Visiting Artist Colloquium is a series supported by the Anonymous Fund and the Brittingham Trust. Visiting artist lectures are held …
The UW–Madison Dance Department, housed in the School of Education, and Jin-Wen Yu Dance present “Digging,” a two-part concert of new contemporary dance and older award-winning work by Dance Professor and Chair Jin-Wen Yu, Sept. 28-30 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall. The first half of the program will include Yu’s beautifully …
“On Various Subjects: 250 Years of Phillis Wheatley,” an exhibit at Memorial Library, celebrates the 250th anniversary of the first book of African American poetry and explores its author’s long legacy. The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), which is housed in the School of Education, loaned six children’s books telling Wheatley’s life story for the …