University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Teixeira receiving Scottish Mental Health Art Festival’s Best Experimental Film Award

Teixeira is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Art Department. His research-based and interdisciplinary work involves video, installation, text and photography. Through performative and participatory structures, he examines notions of language, locational identity, exile and displacement, addressing the limits and overlapping of personal and socio-political territories, physical and psychological spaces. A short description of …

UW-Madison’s Ko, Hong receive KAERA Graduate Student Research Paper Award

Ko is a Ph.D. student with the School of Education’s Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, and Hong is a Ph.D. student with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. The KAERA is an organization of Korean-American and Korean educational researchers dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, scholarship, and practice in education. They are …

UW-Madison alum Ellsworth receives 2019 Grammar Teacher of the Year Award

Ellsworth, who is now an education professor at Montana State University, earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction in 1989. Prior to working with the MSU College of Education, Ellsworth taught curriculum in Spanish and English in Wisconsin. According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, this is where she learned the importance …

Alum Luedke receives Outstanding Research Award from UW–Whitewater’s College of Education and Professional Studies

Luedke is an alumna of UW-Madison who earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in 2014. Luedke is an assistant professor and the interim coordinator of the higher education leadership program at UW–Whitewater. Her research examines how students of color, and Latinx students in particular, are socialized …

Tandem Press exhibition ‘In Bloom’ opening May 3

An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 3, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Tandem Press Apex Gallery. The exhibit will then be on view through Sept. 28. The Tandem Press, which was founded in 1987, is affiliated with the School of Education’s Art Department. The Tandem Press brings in artists who use …

MSAN Institute helps educators develop equity-focused leadership, nurture cultural competence

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, UW-Madison’s MSAN is a coalition of 28 sub-urban and urban school districts hailing from states across the country, including five districts serving Dane County. This group, housed within School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), works to understand and eliminate racial disparities in student opportunity and achievement. During the MSAN Institute, educators participate …