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WEC Report on Community Learning Centers Featured in News Story on Funding Cuts

WEC Report on Community Learning Centers Featured in News Story on Funding Cuts


The Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC) review of Wisconsin's 21st Century Community Learning Center program found participating students improved their attendance, engagement and GPA. The program is threatened now by the loss of dedicated federal funding.


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Game Incubator Drives Partnership Between Educators, Researchers at UW–Madison

Game Incubator Drives Partnership Between Educators, Researchers at UW–Madison


Field Day Lab Director David Gagnon speaks to participants of a recent brainstorming and design event featuring four teams of state teachers, university researchers and Field Day designers to create competitive pitches for a new, free learning game.



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Graduate Students Build Professional Skills and Networks with CALL-ECL

Graduate Students Build Professional Skills and Networks with CALL-ECL


Graduate students at UW–Madison’s School of Education are honing their skills and advancing their careers by collaborating with seasoned researchers on a $10.1 million project to develop more equity-centered school principals.



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WCER’s Field Day Lab Celebrates 10 Years on March 4 with public event, new games push

WCER’s Field Day Lab Celebrates 10 Years on March 4 with public event, new games push


WCER's Field Day Lab is marking a decade of impactful learning game development for Wisconsin students with a celebration at Memorial Union and a new push with the state Department of Public Instruction to get educational games in classrooms.


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Multicultural Student Achievement Network 25th Annual Student Conference Addresses “Leaving Our Legacy”

Multicultural Student Achievement Network 25th Annual Student Conference Addresses “Leaving Our Legacy”


The Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the Multicultural Student Achievement Network (MSAN) today announced that more than 150 high school students and their chaperones from multiracial school districts across the country are meeting this week (Nov. 13-16) in East Lansing, MI for the 25th annual MSAN Student Conference.


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EVENTS
CALENDAR

Jul 29, 1 p.m.–2:30 p.m. CT

Webinar | Ten Things to Know About Finding Grants
Dave Holmes, Educational Programming Manager at Candid

Jul 30, Noon–2:30 p.m. CT

Poster Symposium | Summer Education Research Program


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:

  • Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture Series
    This series enhances awareness of minority scholars and promotes their work in education research.

  • Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series
    This interdisciplinary speaker series features leading scholars from around the world who visit campus to share and discuss their work.

  • Other Lecture Videos

Or, you can browse all our videos here!

NEWS

WEC Report on Community Learning Centers Featured in Media Story on Funding Cuts

WCER Communications, Jul 11

Game Incubator Event Fuels Educator, Research Partnership At UW–Madison

WCER Communications, Jun 9

Krauskopf Wins 2025 Excellence in Science Education Award

WCER Communications, May 6

UW–Madison’s McQuillan Chosen for Prestigious Early-Career Program

School of Education/WCER Communications, Apr 29

Brighouse Among Four Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

UW–Madison/WCER Communications, Apr 28

WCER’s Andrew Ruis Wins 2025 Academic Staff Excellence Award

WCER Communications, Apr 22

PUBLICATIONS

WCER Working Paper: Building Arts-Based Social-Emotional Learning Practices Through Embodied Professional Learning: UW–Madison Community Arts Collaboratory’s Research Lab

Yorel Lashley, Erica Halverson, Stephanie Richards, Emily Nott, Tracey Bullington, Lindsey Kourafas, John Samuels, Leila Rahnamanoabadi, and Audriana Ryann Zeuske, July 2025

"Decoding with Merriam-Webster Pronunciation Symbols: A Structured Approach for Dyslexia Instruction," Shawn Robinson, MINDS@UW, May 2025

“Tools for coordinating measurement use in science education and training,” Fátima Sanchez Nieto, Christine M. Pribbenow, Christine Pfund, Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, May 2025

“National Dissemination of an Online Research Mentor Training Intervention: Evidence of an Asynchronous Model to Promote Learning Outcomes and Behavior Change,” Anne Marie Weber-Main, Kimberly Spencer, Emma Dums, So Hee Hyun, Christine Pfund, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, April 2025

“Measuring the Interpersonal Component of the Mentoring Relationship: The Mentorship Working Alliance Scale-Mentee Version,” Jenna Griebel Rogers, Angela Byars-Winston, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, April 2025

NEW GRANTS

Annalee Good was awarded $6,444 from the Jewish Federation of Madison for “Jewish Federation of Madison/Cheryl Rosen Weston Fund Grant” through June 30, 2025. (051525)

Katie Eklund was awarded $814,881 from the Institute of Education Sciences, in a subcontract from University of South Florida, for “Development and Validation of the Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener-Early Childhood (SAEBRS-EC)” through June 30, 2028. (042125)

Shamya Karumbaiah was awarded $75,000 from the Spencer Foundation for “Blurring the Language Boundaries: AI Support for Translanguaging in Classrooms” through June 30, 2027. (032825)


FUNDERS
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
New York City Department of Education Spencer Foundation Westat National Science Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Madison Metropolitan School District Chicago Public Schools Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
Lumina Foundation for Education National Institutes of Health Milwaukee Public Schools
Hillsborough County Public Schools The Wallace Foundation William T. Grant Foundation
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County The Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation Tulsa Public Schools
PROJECTS
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  • Debt Plus
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  • UW Madison Special Education Teacher Residency Program
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  • Advancing ALTELLA
  • Black Males in Engineering
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  • The Center for Ethics & Education
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  • CRECE Center for Research on Eary Childhood Education
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