Past Events

Field Day 10th Anniversary Celebration

March 4, 2025, 4:30–6 p.m., Memorial Union


ITP - Understanding Learners’ Challenges With Fraction Reasoning

Jennifer Murray, Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, UW–Madison

February 28, 2025, 12:00–1:30 p.m. CT, 259 Educational Sciences


ITP | Fostering the development of abstract concepts in complex domains

Icy Zhang, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences, Dept. of Educational Psychology, UW–Madison

February 21, 2025, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences


MLRC Speaker Series | Lau and Brown at Odds? Historicizing Language Rights and Racial Interpretation for Transformative Education

Trish Morita-Mullaney, Associate Professor of Literacy and Language, Purdue University

February 6, 2025, 1 p.m. CT, Zoom only, Zoom only


Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | Engineering Jobs On The Horizon? A Closer Look At East African Undergraduate Women’s Insights

Meseret F. Hailu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

December 11, 2024, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences or Virtual


Creating And Sustaining Research Partnerships With School Districts

Katie Eklund and Bath Vaade

December 10, 2024, noon - 1:30 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences


ITP | Can State Nondiscrimination Protections Mitigate Bullying And Attempted Suicide Amongh LGB Students?

Erin Gill, PhD Candidate, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, UW–Madison

December 6, 2024, noon - 1:30 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences


MLRC Speaker Series | Multilingualism For All? U.S. World Language Policies And Implications For Multilingual Learners

Megan Montee, Associate Research Professor, Georgetown University

December 5, 2024, 1-2 p.m. CST, Virtual - register at go.wisc.edu/a0z7ii


ITP | Understanding the ‘Package Deal’: Disentangling Parents’ Intertwined Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods

Elly Field, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University

November 22, 2024, noon-1:30 p.m. Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences and Zoom


Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture Series | Educational Attainment and Wealth Mobility in the Student Debt Cohort

Dr. Jordan Conwell, University of Texas at Austin

November 1, 2024, noon - 1:30 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences


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 |

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