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: School of Education Alumni Panel: Where Are They Now?
SoE Alumni, Eight graduates of UW–Madison's School of Education
November 16, 2016, 12:00 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Series: Retrieval-Based Learning: Active Retrieval Promotes Meaningful Learning
Jeffrey D. Karpicke, James V. Bradley Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
November 2, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Series: Education Reform and Gender
Margaret Smith Crocco, Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
October 19, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Series: Participatory Design as a Practice in Designing for Learning
Betsy DiSalvo, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
October 5, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Series: The Role of Social Context in Beginning Teacher Development
Peter Youngs, Associate Professor of Education, University of Virginia
September 21, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
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
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
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
WIES: Effects of Retrieval Practice on Learning: Moving Toward the Real World
Lisa Fazio, Assistant Professor, Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
March 16, 2016, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
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
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
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
More Than Just Skill: Inequities, Identities and Mathematics Remediation Among Black Undergraduates
Gregory Larnell, Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago
December 2, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room, 159 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
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
