Choreographer and performer Duane lee Holland Jr. will join the School of Education Dance Department in the fall as its first hip-hop scholar on faculty. Holland comes to UW-Madison after serving as an associate professor of dance and hip-hop instructor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. His professional background includes performing with some of the top hip-hop and …
The talk, moderated by Tony Chambers, the associate director of the Network, is now available for viewing via the School of Education’s YouTube channel. Grant, the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Education with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, recently published “Du Bois and Education,” which details the life and works of W. E. B. Du Bois …
The Diversity Liaison Project provides a hands-on approach to offering more opportunities for campus leaders to actively engage with matters of diversity, equity and inclusion; and implement best practices in the classroom and beyond. The goal of the project is to help create an educational environment at UW–Madison that is conducive to everyone’s best learning and professional …
Housing residents are invited to honor instructors who have impacted them positively, challenged them, helped them learn, and inspired them. For the Spring 2019 semester, five faculty and staff from across the School of Education were recognized. Those being honored are: Douglas Rosenberg, the Chair of the School of Education’s Art Department. Rosenberg, a professor of video, …
The sculpture was created by Victoria Reed, who earned her master of fine arts degree from the School of Education’s Art Department in 2016. This gift was made possible with support from the 4W Initiative (Women, Well-being, Wisconsin and the World), the UW Foundation, and the Wisconsin Union. Reed made the sculpture with fabricated steel. In this piece, …
On Friday evening, May 10, the School honored its Spring 2019 Ph.D. and master of fine arts degree recipients during a traditional hooding ceremony. Bucky Badger stopped in to salute our new alums and check out the scene before Dean Diana Hess welcomed and congratulated this newest cohort of #UWGrads. And on Saturday morning, May …
At 27, Ricks is not only the first black principal in the Middleton-Cross Plains School District, but also the youngest in the history of the district. “I think the main thing I bring is vision,” says Ricks, who received his master’s degree from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in …
“We realized we were the only individuals representing UW‒Madison,” recalls Jorgensen, co-director of The Network at the time. “It was suddenly so apparent that the School of Education should play a more prominent role in rural Wisconsin schools and communities through research and outreach.” Since that aha moment in the car, it’s been full speed ahead. Last fall, the …
Ladson-Billings is the current president of the National Academy of Education and is a professor emerita with the UW-Madison School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She is also a faculty affiliate with the departments of Educational Policy Studies,Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and Afro American Studies. Ladson-Billings will speak during the first of six ceremonies from …
The production was presented in association with the Little Theatre Movement and was performed at the Little Theatre in Kingston. Walker’s piece, according to an article from the Gleaner, “illustrated a creative juxtaposition between lighting and choreography.” Walker is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Dance Department. Read more about the Morning of Movement …