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

WIES Lecture | Metacognitive Awareness of Estimation Across the Lifespan

Clarissa Thompson, Associate Professor, Kent State University

May 1, 2019, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, L138 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall


Statewide Efforts to Support Student Mental Health in Rural Communities

Rebecca Collins, State Director of Student Services, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

April 30, 2019, 12-1:30 pm, 253 Educational Sciences


CCWT Spring Seminar Series:  Participatory Action Research as a Grassroots Challenge

Gary L. Anderson, Professor, Educational Leadership, New York University Steinhardt

April 29, 2019, 10:00, Education Building, 159, 1000 Bascom Mall


ITP Seminar in Education Sciences | Internship Day

April 26, 2019, 12 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259


Future Directions in Indigenous Education Research

Brian McInnes, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth

April 25, 2019, 11:30 am - 1 pm, 298 Education Building


MEP Research Symposium: Partnering for Progress

MMSD Ricardo Jara, Beth Vaade, Culleen Witthuhn & UW-Madison Katie Eklund, Beth Graue, Eric Grodsky, Katie Ostrander, Bob Mathieu

April 25, 2019, 4-6:30 pm, Spark Building, 821 E. Washington Ave., Madison


WIES Lecture Featuring kihana ross

kihana ross, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University

April 24, 2019, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, 159 Wisconsin Idea Room, School of Education


Data & Pizza: Explore Your Research Questions Using Existing Data Sources

Amy Claessens and Hyunwoo Yang

April 23, 2019, 3:00 - 4:30 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259


ITP Seminar | Barriers & Facilitators in Effectiveness Trials of Family Engagement in Interventions

Garret Hall, Phoebe Jordan, Meghan McMackin, Brandon Lonnerstater, University of Wisconsin--Madison

April 19, 2019, 12 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259


Carl A Grant Scholars Lecture

Jennifer Morton, Associate Professor, The City College of New York

April 15, 2019, 12 - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259


WIES Lecture | Developing and Testing Interventions to Increase Racial Equity in School Discipline

Kent McIntosh, Professor, Special Education, University of Oregon

April 11, 2019, 12 - 1 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259


CCWT: Managing Transitions from College to Work: The ‘Employability’ and Career Readiness Challenge

Michael Tomlinson, Associate Professor, Southampton Education School, University of Southampton, UK

April 10, 2019, Noon-1:30 pm, Ed Sciences 259, 1025 West Johnson Street


WIES Lecture | Proportional Reasoning: From Symbolic Formalizations to Early Intuitions

Michelle Hurst, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago

April 3, 2019, 12:30-1:30 pm, Education Building, 159, 1000 Bascom Mall


From Interests to Investigations: Developing a Research Agenda

Mary Pattillo, Nothwestern University

April 1, 2019, 1:30 - 2:30 pm, Room 159, 1000 Bascom Hall


Carl A. Grant Scholars | Using Critical Design Thinking to Create Emancipatory Research Agenda

Lesley-Ann Noel, Teaching Fellow, Stanford University

April 1, 2019, 12 - 1 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259