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.
Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | Addressing Leadership Gaps: Navigating the (Un)Pathways of Special Education Teachers of Color
LaRon Scott, Professor, University of Virginia
March 5, 2025, 11 a.m. to noon, 259 Educational Sciences
MLRC Speaker Series | Exemplary Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs: What Does It Take?
Igone Arteagoitia, Research Scientist, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC
March 6, 2025, 1-2 p.m. CT on Zoom, Zoom only
Grant Seeking 101 Webinar | Big10+ Postdoc Research Development Series
March 11, 2025, 1-3 p.m., Join via Zoom
Past Events
Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | Addressing Leadership Gaps: Navigating the (Un)Pathways of Special Education Teachers of Color
LaRon Scott, Professor, University of Virginia
March 5, 2025, 11 a.m. to noon, 259 Educational Sciences
Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles
March 5, 2025, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Central Time, 159 Education Building
Field Day 10th Anniversary Celebration
March 4, 2025, 4:30–6 p.m., Memorial Union
ITP - Understanding Learners’ Challenges With Fraction Reasoning
Jennifer Murray, Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, UW–Madison
February 28, 2025, 12:00–1:30 p.m. CT, 259 Educational Sciences
ITP | Fostering the development of abstract concepts in complex domains
Icy Zhang, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences, Dept. of Educational Psychology, UW–Madison
February 21, 2025, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
MLRC Speaker Series | Lau and Brown at Odds? Historicizing Language Rights and Racial Interpretation for Transformative Education
Trish Morita-Mullaney, Associate Professor of Literacy and Language, Purdue University
February 6, 2025, 1 p.m. CT, Zoom only, Zoom only
Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | Engineering Jobs On The Horizon? A Closer Look At East African Undergraduate Women’s Insights
Meseret F. Hailu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
December 11, 2024, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences or Virtual
Creating And Sustaining Research Partnerships With School Districts
Katie Eklund and Bath Vaade
December 10, 2024, noon - 1:30 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences
ITP | Can State Nondiscrimination Protections Mitigate Bullying And Attempted Suicide Amongh LGB Students?
Erin Gill, PhD Candidate, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, UW–Madison
December 6, 2024, noon - 1:30 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences
MLRC Speaker Series | Multilingualism For All? U.S. World Language Policies And Implications For Multilingual Learners
Megan Montee, Associate Research Professor, Georgetown University
December 5, 2024, 1-2 p.m. CST, Virtual - register at go.wisc.edu/a0z7ii
ITP | Understanding the ‘Package Deal’: Disentangling Parents’ Intertwined Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods
Elly Field, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
November 22, 2024, noon-1:30 p.m. Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom
ITP | We ask so much: The division of rationalized labor in the education industry
Michelle Jackson, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Stanford University
September 20, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom
ITP | Reflections Midway through a Career Advancing Educational Equity and Policy
Ross Wiener, Vice President, Aspen Institute Executive Director, Education & Society Program
September 13, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom
