Events

WCER and its projects host dozens of lectures, panels discussions and other events throughout the year, including the Wisconsin Ideas in Education and Carl A. Grant series, and the annual UW-Madison Education Research Poster Fair.

Nearly all these events are free, and open to the campus community, as well as to other educators, community leaders and members of the interested public.

You can scroll event descriptions beginning with the most current on this page, get a larger view and subscribe to WCER’s Google calendar, visit the individual pages for each type of event or use the search.



Past Events

CANCELLED | CCWT | Supporting Higher Education and Career Success for Refugees in Wisconsin

To be rescheduled for the fall

April 10, 2020, 9:30 am-4 pm, Madison College Truax Campus, Room D1630, 1701 Wright Street Madison, WI


CANCELLED | Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series Lecture |  April 8, 2020

Michelle J. Bellino, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Education

April 8, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, UW-Madison


CANCELLED | Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series Lecture |  March 25, 2020

Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Associate Professor, History, University of Illinois at Chicago

March 25, 2020, 12 - 1 pm, Room 159, Education Building


CANCELLED | Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture |  March 23, 2020

Zandra de Araujo, Associate Professor, University of Missouri College of Education

March 23, 2020, 12 - 1 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building


CANCELLED | What Drives Racial/Ethnic Disparities in School Discipline?

Jayanti Owens, Assistant Professor of Psychology, International and Public Affairs, Brown University

March 13, 2020, 12 - 1:30 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building


CANCELLED FOR PUBLIC: The Power of Humanizing Pedagogy on Minoritized Youth

Jessica Stovall, PhD student in Race Inequality and Language in Education program, Stanford University

March 12, 2020, Noon - 1pm, Educational Sciences Room 259


CANCELLED | UW–Madison Education Research Poster Fair

Jessica Stovall, PhD student in Race Inequality and Language in Education program, Stanford University

March 12, 2020, 10 am - 1:00 pm, Town Center | Discovery Building, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.


WIES | Fostering Community-Engaged Partnerships to Develop, Evaluate & Disseminate Interventions

John Begeny, Professor of School Psychology, North Carolina State University

March 11, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, UW-Madison


WEPOP/Annalee Good Book and Policy Discussion

Annalee Good, WCER researcher and evaluator

March 10, 2020, 4:15 - 5:45 p.m., Memorial High School, 201 S Gammon Road, Literacy Center


ITP & MEP | Working with School Districts

Katie Eklund, Kira Hicks, Erica Halverson, Percival Matthews, Annalee Good, Chris Harrison, Jay Affeldt, Casey Pellien, University of Wisconsin--Madison, Madison Metropolitan School District

March 6, 2020, 12:30 - 2 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, UW-Madison


Field Day Lab | AI and Video Games in Education Lunch

David Gagnon, Robert Nowak, Bernadette Baker, Researchers, University of Wisconsin-Madison

March 6, 2020, 12-1 pm, Morgridge Commons, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


ITP | Estimating Treatment Effects in Multi-Site Randomized Trials

Stephen Raudenbush, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

February 28, 2020, 12 - 1:30 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building


WIES |Connections, Conversations & Communities: Engaging with the World’s Largest Collection of Type

Stephanie Carpenter, Assistant Director, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, Wisconsin

February 26, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


ITP | Rethinking Connections Between Research & Practice: What 4,000 Teachers & Administrators Say

Henry May, Director of the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy, Associate Professor, University of Delaware

February 21, 2020, 12 - 1:30 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building


ITP | Overview of Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative

WEC Staff Members, Community of Evaluation Experts for PreK-12 Education Systems

February 14, 2020, 12 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259