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 | 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 | 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
