School of Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew Ruis, a WCER research scientist and expert on the history of school lunches—he wrote the book Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States—has done many interviews and media consults this year, as the topic has often been in the news. Most recently, he was featured in “Making All School …
WCER is pleased to congratulate Christine Pfund for earning the esteemed title of Distinguished Senior Scientist. Per university policy, an academic staff member awarded the Distinguished prefix is one who typically performs at a level requiring extensive experience and advanced knowledge and skills. Peers recognize the expertise of a Distinguished member, and their reputation extends beyond their …
Two-Day Conference Starting April 20 was First In-Person MSAN Institute Since 2019 WCER’s MSAN Network hosted 175 teachers, principals, and school district leaders from across the country last week for the 2023 MSAN Institute, a two-day professional learning conference aimed at building racially just schools, with a focus this year on addressing the educator shortage crisis while recruiting …
Book Argues Teachers’ Active Participation in Policy Advocacy is Key to Creating Optimal K-12 Ed Systems WCER evaluator/researcher Annalee Good and Framingham State University Associate Professor May Hara will host an in-person discussion of their book, Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change, with representatives from teacher advocacy group Educators for Excellence during next week’s AERA conference in Chicago. …
Partnership Between UW−Madison/MMSD Will Train 24 Graduate Students From Diverse Backgrounds Over Five Years Answering local needs amid a national crisis, UW−Madison education faculty and district officials will use a $6 million federal grant to expand culturally responsive mental health services in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) by training two dozen new school psychology …
Authors: Erica Halverson, Caitlin Martin, Jalessa Bryant, Katherine Norman, Caleb Probst, Stephanie Richards, Kailea Saplan, Andy Stoiber, and Jonathan Tunstall March 2023, 37 pp. Abstract: A wealth of literature shows positive outcomes and experiences from arts learning, yet youth access to arts education has become significantly more inequitable over the past 30 years. Alongside the …
Authors: Courtney Bell, Geoffrey Phelps, Dan McCaffrey, Shuangshuang Liu, Barbara Weren, Nancy Glazer, and Francesca Forzani February 2023, 38 pp. Abstract: The recent turn toward core practices and practice-based teacher education has been accompanied by a growing literature on the definitions, pedagogies to teach, and assessments of core practices. Despite these developments, the field lacks …
Author: Richard Halverson February 2023, 30 pp. Abstract: This paper relates how leaders of a higher education program, the Wisconsin Collaborative Education Research Network, sparked and managed innovation across communities of scholarship, research, and practice. This paper uses a design narrative method to describe how leaders orchestrated organizational change by bringing diverse communities together into …
Author: Matthew Wolfgram December 2022, 21 pp. Abstract: The paper introduces the history and politics of value formation at historically Black colleges/universities (HBCUs) and focuses on how cultural-institutional values associated with Black and minority servingness — such as Black empowerment, ethics of care, and community service —impact the work of educators to coordinate internship opportunities …
Authors: Matthew Wolfgram and Alexandra D. Pasqualone July 2022, 21 pp. Abstract: This paper analyzes how employers use discourse to ideologize the value of college internships — a historically emergent form of contingent, temporary, educational labor which has rapidly become a major feature of both higher education and labor relations in the United States (Frenette, …