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
Carl A. Grant Lecture: Multi-modal Voicing & Scale in Documentary Media
Eva Lam, Associate Professor, Learning Sciences, Asian American Studies, Northwestern University
April 28, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Teaching to Empower: Active Learning Practices in High Enrollment Courses
Kathleen O'Connell and Theresa Pesavento, Sr Learning Technology Consultant, DoIT Academic Tech; Instructional Tech Consultant, L&S Learning Support Svcs
April 27, 2016, 6:00 - 7:30 pm, Union South, Varsity Hall
WIES Series: Everyday Life Settings for Environmental Learning and Stewardship
Nicole M. Ardoin, Assistant Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Education
April 27, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
MSAN Institute
April 26, 2016, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Union South, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Political Polarization and the Ethics of Teaching about Partisanship
Paula McAvoy, Program Director, Center for Ethics and Education
April 25, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 253, 1025 West Johnson Street
Instructional Leadership for K-8 Science: Supervising Science in the Era of Reform
Rebecca Löwenhaupt, Ass't Professor, Boston College
April 25, 2016, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
ITP Seminar Series: The Whole Really is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts!
Marni Brownell, Senior Research Scientist, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy
April 22, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
WIES Series: The Intertwined Development of Spacial & Numerical Cognition
Nora Newcombe, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University
April 20, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
ITP Seminar Series: Teacher Effects on Complex Cognitive Skills and Social-Emotional Competencies
Matthew A. Kraft, Assistant Professor of Education, Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University
April 15, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 253, 1025 West Johnson Street
Promoting Readiness: A Symposium of Perspectives/Practices
Dr. Jane Powers & Dr. Annalee Good, Senior Extension Associate, Cornell University & co-Director of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative
April 13, 2016, 2:30 - 5:00 pm, Nancy Nicholas Hall, Room 1199
DataViz: Visualizing Research & Evaluation Results
Ann K. Emery, Data analysis, visualization consultant
April 7, 2016, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 253, 1025 West Johnson Street
John Dewey’s “Democracy & Education” at 100, Day 2
April 1, 2016, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
ITP Seminar: Pushing Teachers Out: Effects of State Policy on Teacher Attrition
Rachel Feldman, Doctoral Candidate in Educational Policy Studies
April 1, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
John Dewey’s “Democracy & Education” at 100, Day 1
March 31, 2016, 4:00 - 6:00 PM, Town Center Forum, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
WIES Series “An Act of Knowing”
David H. Clemens, Artist in Residence, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
March 30, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
