By Laurel White You’re a fresh-out-of-college journalist and you have three hours to write a breaking news story about historic flooding in your new home, a small Wisconsin town known for its cherry festival. City Hall won’t provide a comment — a spokesperson refers you to a stale website. Volunteers helping with response efforts are …
UW–Madison’s Aydin Bal has received the Distinguished Researcher from Underrepresented Groups Award from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). The CEC is the primary professional organization for disability research and the field of special education. Bal is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, as well as the …
UW–Madison alumna Susan Patterson recently published her first novel, titled “Things I Wish I Told My Mother.” Patterson earned a BS in 1979 and an MFA in 1982, both from the School of Education’s Art Department. She has written multiple children’s books with husband James Patterson, a self-described honorary Badger and the world’s bestselling author. …
Mark Hairston is the newly appointed faculty artistic director of UW–Madison’s Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI), home of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship Program. OMAI is housed in the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement (DDEEA). The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives provides culturally relevant and transformative arts programming to promote …
The winners of the 2022-23 Teaching Assistant Awards have been announced, and two graduate students from the School of Education are among the honorees. UW–Madison employs over 2,300 teaching assistants (TAs) across a wide range of disciplines. Their contributions to the classroom, lab, and field are essential to the university’s educational mission. To recognize the …
By Laurel White A UW–Madison faculty member’s dissertation that sheds light on inequalities in student access and success and evaluates policies aimed at reducing barriers to opportunity has been honored as a standout publication by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Taylor Odle, a new faculty member in the UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational …
UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah will be featured in a Badger Inquiry on Sport (BIOS) seminar this Friday, March 31, from 12 – 1 p.m., in the Student Athlete Performance Center at Camp Randall Stadium. A former a high-level soccer player, Abdu’Allah will be discussing how his identities as athlete and artist come together. Abdu’Allah is a professor in …
Christine Nekas-Thoma, who earned her BS in English education in 1996 from UW–Madison’s School of Education, recently published a memoir titled, “God’s Whispers: Your Anchor Through Life’s Storms.” In the book’s synopsis, Nekas-Thoma writes that her memoir “is the manifestation of my dialogue with God.” She adds: “As you wait for God to guide you …
By Laurel White A policy report from UW–Madison researchers that examined the efficacy of a Wisconsin school district’s programs for supporting LGBTQ+ students has been honored by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). For the report, researchers partnered with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) to look at how several district-wide initiatives aimed at supporting lesbian, gay, …
The UW–Madison School of Education Wisconsin Teacher Pledge is dedicated to strengthening and diversifying Wisconsin’s teacher workforce. It pays the equivalent of in-state tuition and fees, testing, and licensing costs for all teacher education students who “pledge” to teach for three or four years at a pre-kindergarten through 12th grade school in Wisconsin after they graduate. To …