School of Education

Projects

• Cooperative Masters of Science Degree Program

  The Cooperative Masters of Science Degree Program provides the opportunity for educators outside of the Madison area to obtain a UW-Madison Master of...

• First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community

  The First Wave Spoken Word and Urban Arts Learning Community is a cutting-edge multicultural artistic program for incoming students at the University...

• Cooperative Children's Book Center

  The Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) supports teaching, learning and research related to children’s and young adult literature by providing i...

• Improving Public Understanding of Educational Policy and Practice

  UW-Madison Professor Michael Apple is a regular commentator statewide on issues involving education. Professor Apple also works with numerous schools...

• Epistemic Games

  Professor of Learning Science David Williamson Shaffer directs this project that studies, designs, and builds virtual internships and assessment tools...

• Movement Fundamentals: A Physical Education Program for Home Schooled Students

  Students taking part in PE FUNdamentals will benefit from development in all three domains of learning. While many typical PE programs focus heavily...

• Formando Lazos Project: Bicultural Parenting and Building a Stronger Pan-Latino Community

  The Formando Lazos Project focuses on family strengthening through building a stronger Latino community that supports how Latino parents and childcare...

• WISCareers Web Site

  The Center on Education and Work (CEW) develops and maintains the WISCareers Website, a comprehensive online portal for career exploration, career pla...

• Families and Schools Together (FAST)

  Families and Schools Together, Inc. (FAST) is a multifamily group intervention designed to build protective factors for children and empower parents t...

• Literacy in Assessment and Data Designed for Effective Results for English Language Learners (LADDER)

  The Wisconsin Center for Education Research's (WCER) WIDA project has developed the Literacy in Assessment and Data Designed for Effective Results (LA...

• EdiPHy

  The EdiPHy website is based on the idea that Physical Education (PE) is a terrific way in which students can develop as whole individuals. The site ho...

• Evaluation of Instructional Improvement - Literacy Focus: Substantive and Technical Component

  Prof. Camburn helped the Milwaukee public school district develop a survey that measures how well teachers' practice reflects district standards. The...

• Center on Education and Work

  Professor Mitchell Nathan in the Department of Educational Psychology directs the Center on Education and Work. With a 40-year history of research and...

• Advanced Placement Summer Institute

  The Summer Advanced Placement (AP) Institute, in partnership with the College Board and administered by the Division of Continuing Studies, conducts s...

• Kids Klub

  Professor Crim is the coordinator of the Kids Klub at Madison's Leopold Elementary School, which mentors third, fourth and fifth grade African-Americ...

• Careers Institutes

  The Careers Institutes are a series of trainings for career counselors, educators, and career specialists of all kinds, offered through the Center on...

• Surveys of the Enacted Curriculum

  The Surveys of the Enacted Curriculum (SEC) Online site encourages teacher reflection and peer conversation around classroom practice and instructiona...

• Career Development Facilitator Training

  Career Development Facilitator (CDF) training is a hybrid training class designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of individuals who work in any t...

• Adapted Fitness and Personal Training Program

  The Adapted Fitness and Personal Training classes offered through the Physical Education Activity Program serve a diverse population that includes stu...

• K-12 Leadership Certification Programs

  The Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) in the School of Education offers courses leading to professional certification in...

• Early Mathematics Placement Tool

  The Early Mathematics Placement Tool is a shortened version of the UWS mathematics placement test. It is available on-line and mainly intended for hig...

• Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN)

  MSAN, the Minority Student Achievement Network, is a national coalition of 28 multiracial, urban-suburban school districts that have come together to...

• World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium (WIDA)

  WIDA is a consortium of 36 states/territories dedicated to the design and implementation of high standards and equitable educational opportunities for...

• Wisconsin State Reading Teacher and Reading Specialist Licenses

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison provides working teachers with a professional development program leading to the Wisconsin State Reading Teacher L...

• Annual University of Wisconsin Reading Research Symposium

  The University of Wisconsin System has had a long tradition of hosting an annual Reading Research Symposium, with various campuses from across the sta...

• Increasing Awareness of the Effects of Alcohol on the Human Body

  Dr. Kevin Strang gives outreach lectures on the mechanisms of alcohol action on the human body, at the invitation of educators and administrators of s...

• Game-based Learning Approaches

  Curriculum and Instruction Associate Prof. Kurt Squire has worked with approximately 25 teachers based between Madison and Milwaukee in co-designing a...

• Summer Science Camp

  Summer Science Camp, held through the Morgridge Institute for Research, was created in 2007 to offer opportunities for students from rural Wisconsin s...

• SHAPE

  Started in 1997, Students Helping in the Advancement of Public Education (SHAPE) is a tutoring program that connects UW-Madison students with elementa...

• Family-Focused Intervention for Latino Families Affected by Parental Depression

  When a parent has depression, the child shares the confusion and shame associated with the depression. This risk is highest when the family lives in p...

• Careers Conference

  The annual Careers Conference, hosted by UW-Madison's Center on Education and Work, focuses on assisting practitioners, working at levels K-12 through...

• Forgiveness Education in Milwaukee's Central City

  Since 2003 Robert Enright and his colleagues have been providing forgiveness education programs for charter schools in Milwaukee's central city. Resea...

• No Limits Kids Fitness

  This is an adapted fitness program for disabled children ages 7-17. Children with physical disabilities have very few opportunities to participate in...

• Partner School Network

  The Partner School Network (PSN) at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Education is made up of 25 schools across four local districts and...

• Odyssey Project Evening Child Care

  The Odyssey Project provides adult education to low income adult students who experience significant family challenges. The UW Office of Child Care an...

• Early Education Professional Development

  Those in the field of early education and care often struggle with supporting the professional development needs of the workforce. The UW Office of Ch...

• GLS Center Playsquads

  Through games, the Games Learning Society Center makes scientific discovery visible to the public by creating digital games for learning science. Whil...

• World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium

  WIDA is a project at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) that began as a federal grant in 2003 to develop a standards and assessment sy...

• Career Development Facilitator Program

  The Wisconsin Center for Education Research teaches the course that is required for the Global Career Development Facilitator Certification and the Ce...

• Ecareers.sg - Education and Career Guidance Website for Singapore

  In 2009, the Center on Education and Work (CEW) launched ecareers.sg, an education and career guidance website for Singapore students in grades 5-12....

• The Morgridge Center for Public Service

  The mission of the Morgridge Center for Public Service is to "Connect campus with community through service, service learning and community-based rese...

• Aldo Leopold Elementary School Outreach for World Languages

  The World Language Education program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction has an ongoing relationship with Aldo Leopold Elementary School t...

• The Interplay of Working Families’ Employment Conditions and School Engagement

  This research study (with Prof. Anna Haley-Lock, Social Work) examines the interplay between parent and caregiver employment, school climate, and fami...

• Examining African American/Black Parents’ Experiences and Family-School Relationships in a Suburban District

  This study examines the family-school relationships and educational engagement of black parents residing in a Wisconsin suburb that has experienced a...

• Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL)

  CALL is a formative assessment of leadership in elementary and secondary schools that assesses leadership as a function across the entire educational...

• Assessment and Treatment of Latino Families

  Professor Carmen Valdez gives a lecture every year to community mental health, health, and educational professionals from all over the state as part o...

• Family Communication and Stress Workshops

  As part of an annual Community Health Fair in Madison, Professor Carmen Valdez gives workshops in the area of family communication and stress. The aud...

• MMSD Math Task Force

  Dr. Mitchell Nathan served as an author and contributor to the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Math Task Force, reviewing curriculum, teac...

• Community-University Exchange - South Madison

  In partnership with the Office of University Relations and Assistant Vice-Chancellor Everett Mitchell, the Community-University Exchange funds two gra...

• Trails Forward

  The Games Learning Center is currently developing a game titled "Trails Forward" which is an ecological, multiplayer strategy game currently in develo...

• Citizen Science

  Citizen Science is an online flash-based computer adventure game in which the player is a young adult who becomes concerned about the health of a loca...

• Badger Volunteers™

  Badger Volunteers™ is a semester-long program that gives students the training and logistical support they need to provide meaningful and consistent s...

• Arts Outreach

  The Arts Outreach Program, established in 1979, works hand-in-hand with the School of Music to share the expertise of its three faculty ensembles-in-r...

• MACROSIMs (Massively Adaptive Complex Realistic Online Simulation with Interactive Mentoring)

  This fall, the College of Engineering will launch a first of its kind MACROSIM. After three years of pilot testing at leading engineering schools, the...

• Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture

  Wayne Valliere was the Windgate artist in residence from September to November 2013. He built a birchbark canoe in the woodshop in the Art Department,...

• The BASES (Building Academic, Social, and Emotional Supports) Project: Enhancing School-Based Supports for Young Homeless Children

  Through collaboration with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), Dane County Parent Council (DCPC) and UW-Madison, the overall goals of the...

• Community Building Facebook page

  This site was created by the students in Kinesiology 325 "Creating Community and Managing Behavior". It reflects the learning that our students do in...

• Personalized Learning in Action

  Schools in Wisconsin are national leaders in using learning technologies to personalize the student experience in and out of the classroom. The Person...

• Wisconsin Idea Exchange Database

  The Wisconsin Idea Exchange Database is an interactive database designed to help community groups and UW-Madison faculty and staff find collaborative...

• Video game research and autism, motor and brain development lab

  Brittany Travers, an assistant professor for the occupational therapy program in the department of kinesiology, studies the motor skills of individual...

• Wisconsin Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE)

  The UW is assisting with a statewide project called Wisconsin Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE). The Wisconsin P...

• Supporting Smart Spaces

  Supporting Smart Spaces, a collaboration between the Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research...

• Wisconsin Act 31 educational site

  Aaron Bird Bear and Simone Schweber received a grant from UW’s Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment to support the teaching about Wis...

• Manufacturing Technologist and Technician Education (METTE) Project

  The METTE (Manufacturing Engineering Technologist and Technician Education) project is an initiative by the National Science Foundation. METTE was a f...

• Fortalezas Familiares

  Fortalezas Familiares, Spanish for “family strengths,” is a program designed in response to increasing rates of depression among Latinos. Fortalezas F...

• Do You Play Fair? Addressing Bias in K-12 Educational Settings

  The overall goal of this project is to improve educational equity in K-12 schools. The specific objectives of this project are to: 1) Collaborate with...

• Response to Act 31: Disseminating Resources on American Indians in Wisconsin to Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers in the State

  WisconsinFirstNations.org addresses educator and administrator need for authentic and accurate PK-12 resources to address Wisconsin academic standards...

• Learning English and Living Biculturally

  This project provides English lessons while collecting information about living biculturally and adapting to living in the United States. An innovativ...

• Literacy by the Lakes

  "Literacy by the Lakes" is an initiative that supports PK-12 school-based teams of educators from Wisconsin in developing and sustaining the literate...

• Pathways for Underrepresented Youth to Pursue Occupational Therapy: Diverse-OT Outreach Across WI

  As a student organization, Diverse-OT strives to create pathways for underrepresented students to pursue a career in occupational therapy (OT). In wor...

• Bringing Gender Affirming Voice Training to an Underserved Community

  This project was a direct service to transfeminine individuals seeking voice feminization. We partnered with the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center to de...

• The Riding in the Moment Project: Preparing Community Partners to Enhance Dementia Quality of Life

  Riding in the Moment (RM) is a community-based program delivered at therapeutic horseback riding centers to enhance the quality of life of adults livi...

• Development and Validation of the Transgender/Nonbinary Coping Measure

  Results across the three phases of the study indicated that the Transgender/Nonbinary Coping Measure is both theoretically and mathematically supporte...

• Building Better Pathways for Young Moms to Achieve Educational Goals

  Young parents, those who have children while in adolescence or early adulthood, experience significant inequities in college access and completion com...

• Transgender and Nonbinary People’s Experience of Relational Trauma with Parental Figures

  This research project aims to establish theories on TNB people’s experiences of relational trauma with parental figures. The four specific goals of th...