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