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
ITP Series: The Promises and Pitfals of Measuring Community College Quality
Michal Kurlaender, Associate Professor, Chair of the Graduate Group in Education, and Chancellor’s Fellow, UC-Davis
March 11, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
How to Build a Better Future STEM Faculty
Mark Connolly, Associate Research Scientist, WCER
March 7, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
The Consortium for Chicago School Research’s Approach to Translational Research
Jenny Nagaoka & Eliza Moeller, Deputy Director & Research Analyst, UChicago Consortium
March 4, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
WIES: The Specificity of Black Suffering
Michael Dumas, Assistant Professor, University of California–Berkeley
March 2, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Qualitative Research Methods Group: How the Field Can Learn From Variation
Anthony Bryk, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
March 1, 2016, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Qualitative Research Methods Group: Musing about Improvement, Equity, and Social Justice
Louis Gomez, Education Department Chair, University of California Los-Angeles
March 1, 2016, 10:30 am - 11:30 am, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
UW–Madison Education Research Poster Fair
James T. Minor, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education
February 29, 2016, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 Orchard Street
Carl A. Grant Lecture: The National Education Agenda and the Role of Innovation
James T. Minor, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education
February 29, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 Orchard Street
ITP: Closing Achievement Gaps with a Utility-Value Intervention
Judith Harackiewicz, Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 19, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
WIES: Gendered Dynamics at Home and at School
Simone Ispa-Landa, Northwestern University
February 17, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIDA 10th Anniversary Celebration
February 9, 2016, 3:00 - 5:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Preparing Elementary Teachers for Ambitious Science Teaching
Elizabeth Davis, Associate Professor of Science Education, Chair of Elementary Teacher Education, University of Michigan
February 3, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Translational Workshop: The Houston Research Consortium’s Approach to Translational Research
Ruth Lopez Turley, Director of the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC)
January 29, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Engaging in Research-Practice Partnerships: Lessons Learned from the MSAN Consortium
Madeline Hafner, Executive Director of the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)
January 26, 2016, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
State of Higher Education: ITP Panel Discussion
January 22, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
