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.
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Past Events
Wisconsin Ideas in Education Lecture Series Featuring Christopher Jett
Christopher Jett, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of West Georgia
March 15, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Resources for Researchers from the William T. Grant Foundation: Research Focus Areas
Vivian Tseng, Vice President, William T. Grant Foundation
March 10, 2017, 10:30 am - 11:30 am, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Resources for Researchers from the William T. Grant Foundation: Scholars Program
Vivian Tseng, Vice President, William T. Grant Foundation
March 10, 2017, 9:30 am - 10:30 am, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
ITP Seminar Series: Translational Workshop: Crafting Research to Inform Federal Policy
March 10, 2017, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture Series: Translating Research from Ed Psych to Children with Mathematics Difficulty
Sarah Powell, Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education, Universtiy of Texas at Austin
March 1, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
UW–Madison Education Research Poster Fair
February 23, 2017, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 Orchard Street
Cultivating Self-in-Context as Responsive Evaluators
Hazel Symonette, Ph.D. , Founder, director of the Student Success Institute; Program development & assessment specialist in the Division of Student Life
February 22, 2017, Noon - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Conducting International Evaluations
February 21, 2017, Noon - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
ITP Seminar Series: Optimizing Prediction in the Context of Large-Scale Educational Assessments
David Kaplan, Professor, Educational Psychology, UW-Madison
February 17, 2017, Noon - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Carl A. Grant Lecture: Teaching to and Through Social Justice
Manya Whitaker, Assistant Professor, Colorado College
February 7, 2017, Noon - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
ITP Seminar Series: Developing Collaborative Research Initiatives
Madeline Hafner, Executive Director of the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)
February 3, 2017, Noon - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Wisconsin Ideas in Education Lecture Series: ICAP: A Theoretical Framework for Active Learning
Michelene Chi, Professor of Science and Teaching, Arizona State University
February 1, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Lunch and Learn Series: Why Equity?
Erika C. Bullock, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education and Assistant to the Editor-in- Chief, Journal of Urban Mathematics Education
January 30, 2017, Noon - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
WIES Lecture: Citizen Sociolinguistics: What is it? Why do it?
Betsy Rymes, Professor and Chair of Educational Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
December 14, 2016, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Book Launch for ‘Beyond the Skills Gap’
Matthew Hora, Assistant Professor in Adult Teaching and Learning in the Department of Liberal Arts and Applied Studies
December 9, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
