UW–Madison faculty and staff who are past winners of a School of Education Seed Grant have published a paper about their important work, titled “Learning how to teach Indigenous history and culture,” in the December 2022 edition of The Learning Professional. The paper had its genesis several years ago as part of the School of …
U.S. News & World Report ranked the UW–Madison School of Education’s online master’s degree programs among the very best in the nation. According to the news organization’s 2023 Best Online Master’s in Education Programs rankings released in January, UW–Madison is No. 4. “These rankings are another example of the range of high-quality programs across our …
By Kari Dickinson First they run the stairs and work their quads and core. Then they move on to a ball passing drill called the “spiderweb.” You might think this is an athletic team warming up for practice. But these are not athletes, they are actors — and these kinds of drills have become routine …
The UW–Madison Division of the Arts and the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) welcome writer, performer, and playwright Porsha Olayiwola to campus Feb. 24 to March 4 through the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program. An academic year-long partnership between the Division of the Arts and OMAI, the collaboration presents a series of short-term residencies with interdisciplinary artists. …
UW–Madison alumna Ethel Radmer has just published her 10th book, “Fields Beyond Your Sight.” Radmer earned a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology in 1957. “Fields Beyond Your Sight” explores the idea of big bangs happening in a cycle across billions of years. This raises the question, “What …
Two faculty from the UW–Madison School of Education are heading Asia to offer “master classes” on an innovative research methodology developed at UW–Madison. In a series of seven workshops and lectures across Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, David Williamson Shaffer, the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics in the Department of Educational …
Twelve UW–Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Those honored have been selected for their distinguished teaching and were nominated by individual faculty members, departments, and student organizations. Among this year’s honorees are two faculty …
By Laurel White In a small village in Malawi, a grandmother of five lost her will to live. Gogo Abiti Juma took over care for her five grandchildren after their parents died of AIDS, and the family struggled to survive. They had little access to food, shelter, health care, or a meaningful social support system. …
The UW–Madison Dance Department, housed in the School of Education, presents its Faculty Concert 2023 Feb. 9 – 18, featuring work from Kate Corby, Li Chiao-Ping, Collette Stewart, Chris Walker, Jin-Wen Yu, and guest artist Charles O. Anderson. The concert will take place over two weekends — Feb. 9-11 and 16-18 — in the Margaret …
UW–Madison’s Brian Burt will be a keynote speaker at the Education and Human Ecology (EHE) Research Forum hosted by Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology on Feb. 16. Burt is an associate professor of higher education with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and he is the …