UW–Madison’s Kimber Wilkerson and Melinda Leko were awarded a $2.5 million U.S. Department of Education Teacher Quality Partnership Grant to fund 40 graduate students who will work with students with disabilities in high-need and small, rural school districts across Wisconsin. Wilkerson is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special …
“Consider it not so Deeply” explores the conflicting layers of the female psyche in Shakespeare’s women through Skog’s powerful, demanding choreography, Shakespeare’s theatrical prose, and original sound, designed by Matan Rubenstein and Timothy Russell. The concert features a lively 60 minutes of evocative contemporary movement accompanied by both original music and that of Vivaldi, as well as spoken word. It …
Reyes earned his doctorate from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 1985 before spending time with the department as an assistant professor. Today, he is a professor of education leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin. Reyes is passionate about education research and the craft of …
Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies. Apple delivered the Sara Fielden Memorial Lecture on “The Challenges of Critical Education” at the University of Manchester in England. He then went on to give the Studia Generalia Lecture on “The Challenges of Critical Education” at The University of the Arts in …
“Intervention: Indigo” was first performed by Laura Anderson Barbata in collaboration with the Brooklyn Jumbies, Jarana Beat, and Walker, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department. Their original 2015 performance began at the Bushwick police precinct, meandered through the neighborhood, and ended in an area populated by artists. This project “is a …
UW–Madison’s François Victor Tochon was invited and greeted as “a representative of Wisconsin’s academic talent.” Tochon is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, and leads the World Language Education Program. At this conference, experts were asked to develop policy recommendations to “support Chinese talent policy in Henan …
First Wave Learning Community, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the School of Education’s Dance Department will be co-sponsoring Newsome’s residency. Newsome’s work highlights the contributions of marginalized communities, and discusses as well as questions the social hierarchy. His work is multidisciplinary: Newsome combines a variety of practices — like collage, sculpture, film, dance, …
The lead author on the paper is UW–Madison’s Timothy McGuine, who earned his master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 2005 in continuing and vocational education. Today, McGuine is a senior scientist and the research coordinator for the UW Health Sports Medicine Center. Co-authors on the paper include …
In this book, Baldacchino pushes past traditional art education aspects and uses examples of path-breaking artists to “advance a scenario where unlearning is uniquely presented to us by the diverse practices that we identify with the arts.” He describes the concept of learning as being “hijacked by foundational paradigms such as developmental narratives” and cites …
The State Journal explains that this six-week class engages families once every week to build skills like emotional self-regulation, interpersonal communication and impulse control. The goal of the course is to decrease bullying and increase better behavior outcomes. Families and students enjoy exercises like working with stress cloths, which are designed to help children visualize …