Past Events

Urban Education Speaker Series - Gloria Ladson-Billings, Nov 12, 2020 06:00 PM

Gloria Ladson-Billings is Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and was Faculty Affiliate in the Departments of Educational Policy Studies, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis and Afro American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the current President of the National Academy of Education. She was 2005--2006 president of the American Educational Research Association. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Thursday, 10/29, 1pm: Equity, Teaching and Classroom Dialogue After the 2020 Election

TOMORROW at 1pm: As we count down to next week, the College of Education's @AlyssaDunn618 will lead a workshop for instructors and will center equity and justice perspectives on teaching post-election. Participants will learn strategies for teaching on the day after and beyond and have opportunities for Q&A and small group discussions.

NSTA October Web Seminar Series; begins 10/1/20

Many states, districts, and schools are unsure of what the coming school year will bring. Will we back together in the classroom or teaching and learning from a distance? Perhaps a blend of the two? In this four-part web seminar series, we’ll explore ways in which we can continue to give our students experience with relevant, intriguing phenomena to create the need to engage in science learning to explain what they’ve observed utilizing distance-learning strategies.

Supporting the development of emerging STEM education researchers

Join PER in welcoming Dr. Mary Bridget Kustusch, who will be giving a seminar on October 22, asking the question 'How does one become a STEM education researcher?' As an explicitly interdisciplinary field, combining disciplinary expertise with education research theory and methodology, developing mastery in STEM education research is not straightforward. It can be particularly challenging for "boundary crossers" coming to education research after training in a more traditional STEM disciplinary area.