Field Day’s new VR game Waddle introduces players to polar research by letting them embody an adelie penguin, with a focus on engaging rural Latinx youth reached through state libraries.
WIDA turns 20 years old this year. Read about how WIDA grew from the early days as a grant-funded startup to the large-scale consortium it is today and see where the organization is hoping to go in the next two decades.
Principal Investigator Ross Benbow briefed Sec. Denis McDonough on the latest findings from Benbow’s $2 million NSF project exploring the importance of social support and relationships in veterans’ success on Wisconsin campuses.
Two new reports from WCER’s Madison Education Partnership (MEP) explore the first year of full-day 4K in Madison public schools, comparing achievement gains, as well as qualitative differences in instruction, time use, and culturally responsive practices, with results seen in half-day 4K classrooms.
In a guest blog, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) notes that CALL, a cloud-based survey tool that provides a school-level portrait of leadership, provides a model of how IES-funded research can have broad impact in schools around the country.
WCER and its projects host dozens of lectures, panel discussions and other events throughout the academic year.
You can view video recordings of these lecture series on our website:
Or, you can browse all our videos here!
WCER Communications, Aug 1
WCER Communications, Aug 1
WCER Communications, Aug 1
School of Education Communications, Aug 1
WIDA Communications, Jul 17
WCER Communications, Jul 5
Bradley Carl and Jenny Seelig, August 2023
Lynn Shafer Willner, August 2023
“Teacher Mindsets and Student Sense of Classroom Belonging,” Jaymes Pyne, Eric Grodsky, Katie Eklund, Pattie Schaefer, Elizabeth Vaade, The Journal of Early Adolescence, July 12, 2023
“A randomized controlled trial of an intervention to increase cultural diversity awareness of research mentors of undergraduate students,” Angela Byars-Winston, Jenna Griebel Rogers, Nancy Thayer-Hart, Sherilynn Black, Janet Branchaw, Christine Pfund, Science, May 24, 2023
“LGBTQ+-Inclusive Professional Development in Elementary Schools: Does It Matter to Schoolwide Discipline?” Mollie T. McQuillan, Erin K. Gill and Xue Gong, Journal of School Leadership, May 2023
Percival Matthews has been awarded $1,249,913 from the National Science Foundation for “The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program in Mathematics Education: Inclusive STEM Education Rooted in an Integrative Theory of Learning” through Aug. 31, 2026. (083023)
Haley Vlach has received a grant of $711,202 from the National Science Foundation for “Moving Beyond Size: Word Meanings Underlying Children's Productive Vocabulary” through July 31, 2027. (082923)
Donald Gillian-Daniel has been awarded $1,250,000 from the National Science Foundation for “ADVANCE Partnership: Raising Equity Values with the Inclusive Professional Framework and International Organization for Standardization Standards in Engineering Societies (REVIIS)” through July 31, 2026. (082823)
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