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
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
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
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
Teacher Education in Stressful Times: Recruitment, Retention, Responsibility and Morale
Katy Heyning, Dean of the College of Education and Professional Studies, University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
February 18, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
New Governance Through New Policy Networks in Education
Gary Anderson, Professor of Educational Administration at New York University
February 4, 2015, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Applying Cognitive Science Principles to Promote Durable and Efficient Learning
Sean Kang, Dartmouth College, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Director of the Dartmouth Cognition & Education Laboratory
December 3, 2014, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Spatial Cognition and STEM Learning: When, How and Why?
David Uttal, Northwestern University, Professor of Psychology
November 19, 2014, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
The Land and the Hand or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Glass
Bryan McGovern Wilson , Fellow of the Creative Glass Center of America, Artist in Residence, The Everglades National Park
November 5, 2014, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Exploring Academic Resiliency and Educational Experiences of Kenyan and U.S. Adolescent Girls
Tonia Durden, University of Nebraska, Assistant Professor in Child, Youth and Family Studies
October 22, 2014, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room 159, Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
