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
Making Space for Sensemaking: Clearing the Affective Hurdles of Learning Science Through Inquiry
Luke Conlin, Postdoctoral Scholar, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
November 18, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Perceptual Learning, Adaptive Learning and Learning Technology
Phil Kellman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
November 4, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Carl A. Grant Lecture: Supporting Young English Learners and Their Teachers
Celia Genishi, Professor Emerita of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
October 21, 2015, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Children Connecting and Creating with Video-Mediated Technologies
Svetlana Yarosh , Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota
October 21, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
When Is a Representation Grounded, for Whom, and How Can We Tell?
David Landy, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University
October 7, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Carl A. Grant Lecture: Cultivating Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Chezare A. Warren, Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
October 6, 2015, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Exposure to Career and Technical Education: Evidence of Academic Impact from MA High Schools
Shaun M. Dougherty, Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership, Naeg School of Education, University of Connecticut
September 23, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
(Re)Imagining First Grade: Perspectives From a Texas School Serving Children of Latina/o Immigrants
Jennifer Keys Adair, Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Education, University of Texas at Austin
April 29, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Piketty, Wealth and Education: Solution or Problem?
Susan L. Robertson , Centre for Globalisation, Education and Social Futures, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
April 22, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
External and Mental Representation of Numbers
Andreas Obersteiner, Postdoctoral Researcher, Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) School of Education, Munich, Germany
April 14, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Carl A. Grant Lecture: Exploring the Benefits of Ethnic Diversity, from Birth to Old Age
Adrienne Nishina, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, University of California, Davis
April 9, 2015, 12:00 to 1:00 pm , Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Against Captivity: School Discipline and Black Girls in the Afterlife of Slavery
Connie Wun, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Chicago
April 8, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Knowledge-Action Gaps: The Difficulties of Providing Useful Information for Families
Susanna Loeb, Barnett Family Professor of Education, Stanford University
March 18, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Neural and Behavioral Foundations of Early Numeracy
Daniel C. Hyde, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 4, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Carl A. Grant Lecture: Equity-Minded Public School Reform
Tina Trujillo, Assistant Professor, University of California–Berkeley
February 27, 2015, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
