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

Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America

Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles

October 1, 2024, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Central Time, 159 Education Building


ITP | We ask so much: The division of rationalized labor in the education industry

Michelle Jackson, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Stanford University

September 20, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


ITP | Reflections Midway through a Career Advancing Educational Equity and Policy

Ross Wiener, Vice President, Aspen Institute Executive Director, Education & Society Program

September 13, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


MLRC Speaker Series | Multilingual Learners’ Reading and Writing in Content-Rich Literacy Instruction

Jackie E. Relyea, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

September 5, 2024, 1-2 p.m. CT on Zoom, Online Zoom


MLRC Speaker Series | Multilingual Learners Co-Constructing Proofs and Representations: Linking Language and Logic

Haiwen Chu, Research Manager for the English Learner and Migrant Education Services content area team, WestEd

August 1, 2024, 1-2 p.m. CT on Zoom, Online Zoom


ITP | Conducting Implementation Research in Impact Studies of Education Interventions

Carolyn Hill, Senior Fellow, MDRC

May 3, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


ITP | Knowledge Mobilization:  Communicating Your Research for Impact

Jessica Rodrigues, Assistant Professor, Special Education, University of Missouri

April 26, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


Community Teaching: Storytelling as Pedagogy

Ma Vang, Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Merced

April 19, 2024, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., 2235 Nancy Nicolas Hall


ITP | An Empirical Evaluation of Advanced Phonemic Awareness Training for Struggling Second- and Third-Grade Students

Alex Latham, Graduate Student, Educational Psychology and ITP Fellow, UW-Madison

April 5, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


ITP | Making “Fast Friends” during Childhood and Adolescence:  Examining Online and School Contexts

Kat Swerbenski, Graduate Student, Psychology, UW–Madison

March 15, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


Students’ responses to evidence of systemic racism in a forensic science class: An evaluation

Linden E. Higgins, Department of Biology, University of Vermont & WCER Visiting Researcher

March 14, 2024, Noon to 1:00 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


ITP | Here or There? LGBTQ+ Students’ Access to Safe Schools by Locale in Wisconsin

Erin Gill, Graduate Student, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, UW–Madison

March 8, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


ITP | The development of STEM motivation among diverse adolescents: Barriers and sources of support

Christy Starr, Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, UW–Madison

March 1, 2024, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom