Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series (WIES)
WIES is an interdisciplinary speaker series intended for educators and future educators across campus. It is organized by early career faculty members from across UW-Madison’s School of Education, with support from WCER, with the goal of bringing leading scholars to UW–Madison to share and discuss their work in education research.
Past Events
WIES Lecture Featuring Megan Luce
Megan Luce, Research Associate, Research in Education & Design (RED) Lab, Stanford University
February 21, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: From Inclusion to Inclusive Schooling: ELLs in the Mainstream Classroom
Ester de Jong, Director, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida School of Education
January 24, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture Featuring Nelson Flores
Nelson Flores, Assistant Professor, Educational Linguistics Division, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
December 6, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: A Panel Discussion about Careers in Academia
November 1, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: Attention and Learning in Young Children
Anna Fisher, Associate Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
October 18, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: New Faculty in the School of Education Present Their Work
October 4, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: Learners’ Construction of Fraction Values
Richard Prather, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
September 20, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Wisconsin Ideas in Education Lecture Series Featuring Carol Hahn
Carol Hahn, The Charles Howard Candler Professor of Educational Studies, Emory College
April 19, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: ‘Up in Arms’ for a Degree: On the Dialectics of Freedom & Control in H.S. Final Exams
Annalisa Sannino, University Lecturer, Center for Research on Activity, Development and Learning, University of Helsinki
April 12, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: The Dimensional Divide: Learning from Media During Early Childhood
Rachel Barr, Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
March 29, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
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
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
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
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
WIES Series: Milestones and Musings from Movement to Math
Dor Abrahamson, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California - Berkeley
November 30, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
