Check out the latest edition of the department newsletter for articles about faculty awards, catching up with retired faculty members, a new diversity seminar added to the curriculum, how Ed Psych researchers are conducting groundbreaking …
Year: 2020
Hess reappointed as dean of the School of Education
Diana Hess has been reappointed as dean of the School of Education. Every five years of their tenure, deans of the university’s schools and colleges undergo a comprehensive review to assess their academic and administrative …
MS for Professional Educators graduate leads with healing as “village-builder” at Georgia nonprofit
“I entered the MSPE program wanting the opportunity to learn in an environment where I would feel seen, heard, valued and supported in pushing myself out of my comfort zone.”
Pauline Ho receives GHI grant for project, ‘Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health’
UW-Madison’s Pauline Ho recently received the UW-Madison Global Health Institute’s (GHI) Graduate Student Award Grant. Ho is a PhD student within the human development area of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. Pauline …
Nathan, Alibali part of virtual panel examining ‘Instructional Gestures for Classrooms and On-Line Mathematics Learning’
UW-Madison’s Mitchell Nathan and Martha Alibali took part in a virtual panel discussion on May 19 hosted by the Embodied Mathematical Imagination & Cognition (EMIC) team. The 90-minute event — titled “Instructional Gestures for Classrooms …
Cecil Smith named Dean of the School of Education at SIU
Ed. Psych. alum M. Cecil Smith (Ph.D., 1988) has been named the next Dean of the School of Education at Southern Illinois University. Cecil was a student in the Human Development area, working under the …
UW–Madison’s EdNeuroLab tackling math learning through brain imaging
by: Lynn Armitage, Wisconsin Center for Education Research communications In 2012, Edward Hubbard, a cognitive neuroscientist and assistant professor with UW‒Madison’s Department of Educational Psychology, created the Educational Neuroscience Lab to understand — through functional …
Dr. Robert Enright Awarded Warf Professorship
Highly regarded School of Education faculty members Li Chiao-Ping, Robert Enright, and Stacey Lee were appointed to prestigious WARF Named Professorships, UW-Madison announced on May 12. Overall, 32 members of the UW-Madison faculty have been …
Featured Summer Courses
Explore Educational Psychology’s Summer Offerings or see other School of Education courses available this summer at School of Education Summer Courses. Educational Psychology’s Summer Offerings How People Learn Introduction to theories of learning in …
School Mental Health Collaborative examining best ways to support kids’ social and emotional well-being
It wasn’t long ago when the concept that schools should play a role in supporting a child’s mental health was met with skepticism. “Historically, schools have not been seen as having a major role to …