Events
WCER and its projects host dozens of lectures, panels discussions and other events throughout the year, including the Wisconsin Ideas in Education and Carl A. Grant series, and the annual UW-Madison Education Research Poster Fair.
Nearly all these events are free, and open to the campus community, as well as to other educators, community leaders and members of the interested public.
You can scroll event descriptions beginning with the most current on this page, get a larger view and subscribe to WCER’s Google calendar, visit the individual pages for each type of event or use the search.
Webinar | Requesting Resources via the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot
April 22, 2025, 3-4pm ET / 12p-1pm PT, Zoom only
CRCT Guest Speaker | How to Support Children in Developing Sociocritical AI Literacies
Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, IDEA Lab Director and Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Technologies, Vanderbilt University
April 30, 2025, 1:30–2:30 p.m. CT, 159 Education Building (Wisconsin Idea Room)
MLRC Speaker Series | Understanding Teachers’ Views on Linguistic Diversity: The Relationship between Beliefs about Language Learning and Sociopolitical Beliefs about Language
Christine Montecillo Leider and Christina L. Dobbs, Leider is Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Dobbs is Associate Professor, Boston University
May 1, 2025, 1-2 p.m. CT on Zoom, Zoom only
Past Events
ITP | Breaking the Bias Habit: Advancing Equity in Teacher-Student Interactions
Tory Ash, Doctoral Student, Department of Educational Psychology, UW-Madison
April 18, 2025, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
ITP | Learning About Development from Interventions
Drew Bailey, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Programs, University of California, Irvine
April 4, 2025, 12:00–1:30 p.m. CT, 259 Educational Sciences
MLRC Speaker Series | Examining Multilingual Learners’ Proficiency on Standardized Assessments: Trends and Disparities Across the WIDA Consortium
Narék Sahakyan, WIDA Researcher
April 3, 2025, 1-2 p.m. CT on Zoom, Zoom only
Grant Seeking 101 Webinar | Big10+ Postdoc Research Development Series
March 11, 2025, 1-3 p.m., Join via Zoom
MLRC Speaker Series | Exemplary Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs: What Does It Take?
Igone Arteagoitia, Research Scientist, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC
March 6, 2025, 1-2 p.m. CT on Zoom, Zoom only
Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | Addressing Leadership Gaps: Navigating the (Un)Pathways of Special Education Teachers of Color
LaRon Scott, Professor, University of Virginia
March 5, 2025, 11 a.m. to noon, 259 Educational Sciences
Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles
March 5, 2025, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Central Time, 159 Education Building
Field Day 10th Anniversary Celebration
March 4, 2025, 4:30–6 p.m., Memorial Union
ITP - Understanding Learners’ Challenges With Fraction Reasoning
Jennifer Murray, Doctoral Student, Department of Psychology, UW–Madison
February 28, 2025, 12:00–1:30 p.m. CT, 259 Educational Sciences
ITP | Fostering the development of abstract concepts in complex domains
Icy Zhang, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences, Dept. of Educational Psychology, UW–Madison
February 21, 2025, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
MLRC Speaker Series | Lau and Brown at Odds? Historicizing Language Rights and Racial Interpretation for Transformative Education
Trish Morita-Mullaney, Associate Professor of Literacy and Language, Purdue University
February 6, 2025, 1 p.m. CT, Zoom only, Zoom only
Carl A. Grant Scholars Lecture | Engineering Jobs On The Horizon? A Closer Look At East African Undergraduate Women’s Insights
Meseret F. Hailu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
December 11, 2024, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., 259 Educational Sciences or Virtual
