Kramer’s residency will focus on exploring democracy in tap dance/jazz music. As part of the residency, she will teach two community workshops and host a Friday Forum. These events are designed to explore the shared principles between Jazz Arts and democracy — listening, open communication, respect, collaboration, and improvisation. The following events are free and open …
Ausderau is an assistant professor with the School of Education and the Department of Kinesiology’s occupational therapy program. Her research focuses on autism spectrum disorders, feeding challenges and family mealtimes. The blog post notes how children with autism are often very selective eaters, which can make mealtime complex. The post goes on to note various …
But he watched young teachers struggle with limited education coursework and the expectation to get a master’s degree early on in their careers. Van Divier found the solution to these challenges in UW–Madison’s Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction: Secondary Education and ESL Certification program. “For me, it made the most sense to find a …
Travers is an assistant professor with the School of Education and the Department of Kinesiology’s occupational therapy program. Earlier this year, she was appointed as the Carla and Michael Austin Occupational Therapy Faculty Fellow. Travers heads the Motor and Brain Development Lab within the university’s Waisman Center, where she is involved with more than a …
Schliesman is a librarian with the School of Education’s Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC). In that role, she oversees the CCBC’s Intellectual Freedom Information Service that responds to any teachers or librarians in the state who are facing a challenge to a book they have in their classroom or that’s in a school or public …
The possibilities Soosai Raj is exploring to that end promise new directions for computer science education. Soosai Raj’s research was inspired by his experiences first as an undergraduate at a university in India, then as a graduate student at UW–Madison. The approaches he explores would have helped him as a learner, he said. And he …
The workshops were designed to introduce Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) and to enhance teacher leaders’ capacity across three districts in Israel to implement the framework and accompanying professional development processes. King is a faculty associate with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and has also been a researcher with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), where …
Her dissertation is titled: “A critical race ethnography examining dual-language education in the new Latinx diaspora: Reinforcing and resisting bilingual education’s racial roots.” Chávez-Moreno earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction this past summer. She will be receiving her award and will be presenting her research at …
The grants, awarded through the Partnership Program’s Community Impact Grant program, each total $1 million over five years and support large-scale, evidence-based, community-academic partnerships aimed at achieving sustainable systems changes to improve health equity in Wisconsin. And among the projects receiving funding is one that’s utilizing the expertise of the School of Education’s Jerlando Jackson. …
DreamUp Wisconsin, the local implementation effort launched to meet the challenge, has selected 11 proposals, from a total of 46 submitted by teams of community and university partners, which offer innovative ideas to grow and support Dane County’s middle class. And among those involved with a winning proposal is the School of Education’s Elizabeth Graue, who …