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
ITP | Part 3: A Short Course on Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGS) and Causal Mediation
Felix Elwert, Romnes Professor of Sociology, UW-Madison
November 6, 2020, 12-1:30 pm VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, Zoon Virtual Presentation
ITP | Part 2: A Short Course on Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGS) and Casual Mediation
Felix Elwert, Romnes Professor of Sociology, UW-Madison
October 30, 2020, 12-1:30 pm VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, Zoom
EPS | Education Research in Community: Reflections on Centering Youth and Families of Color
Julissa Ventura, Eujin Park, Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong, Asst Professor, Marquette University; Postdoc, University of Illinois at Chicago; Asst Professor, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
October 26, 2020, 10-11 am, Virtual Presentation
ITP | Part 1: A Short Course on Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGS) and Causal Mediation
Felix Elwert, Romnes Professor of Sociology, UW-Madison
October 23, 2020, 12-1:30 pm VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, Zoom
ITP | Double Jeopardy: Individual Biases, Racialized Orgs, Racial Disparities in School Discipline
Jayanti Owens, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Brown University
October 16, 2020, 12-1:30 pm VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, ZOOM
Culturally Responsive Research Relationship Skills for Non-Indigenous Researchers
Nicole Bowman-Farrell, Culturally Responsive Research Evaluator, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, UW-Madison School of Education
October 12, 2020, 12-1:30 pm VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, Register here: https://go.wisc.edu/ub964l
CCWT | Internship Opportunities in Community and Tribal Colleges
Julie E. Lucero, Crystal LoudHawk-Hedgepeth, Asst Prof School of Comm Health Services, Latino Research Center, U of Nevada; Research Associate, American Indian College Fund
October 7, 2020, 11 am VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, Zoom
ITP | Can We Identify Effective Schools? The Role of School Climate
Shanette Porter, Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Mindset Network
October 2, 2020, 12-1:30 pm VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, Zoom
ITP | Right-Sizing Research: A Pipeline Approach for Secondary Writing, Teaching and Learning
Megan Shoji & Oriana Eversole, Researcher, Mathematica; Director of Research and Program Evaluation, MMSD
September 25, 2020, 12-1:30 pm VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, ZOOM
ITP | Equality of Opportunity & School Segregation:Natural Experiments from Two Policy Interventions
Jeremy Fiel, Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, University of Arizona
September 18, 2020, 12-1:30 pm VIRTUAL PRESENTATION, ZOOM
Interdisciplinary Training Program | Equity and allocation of financial aid for New Jersey
Drew Anderson, Associate Economist & Professor, Pardee Rand Graduate School, Rand Corporation, VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
September 11, 2020, 12 - 1:30 pm, VIRTUAL PRESENTATION
WCER Future Events
To be announced as scheduled, Online or in other formats
September 7, 2020, On hold for fall semester 2020, On hold
Smart Restart | A Smart Return to Campus Fall 2020
We all have a role in protecting the health and safety of our Badger community., Check out the Smart Restart Plan!
September 2, 2020, Times vary as scheduled, Providing a mix of in-person and remote courses
CANCELLED | Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series Lecture | April 22, 2020
Thalia Goldstein, Assistant Professor, Applied Developmental Psychology, George Mason University
April 22, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Room 159, Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall, UW-Madison
CANCELLED | Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | April 16, 2020
Winston Thompson, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
April 16, 2020, 12 - 1 pm, Room 259, Educational Sciences Building
