Courtney Bell completed her doctorate at Michigan State University in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy after earning her B.A. in Chemistry at Dartmouth College. A former high school science teacher and teacher educator, Courtney’s research looks across actors in the educational system to better understand the intersections of research, policy and practice. Her studies use …
UW–Madison’s Craig Albers shared his thoughts on the stress parents are experiencing making school decisions this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic in a news report for WSAW-TV in Wausau. Albers, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology and co-director of the Rural Education Research and Implementation Center (RERIC), spoke …
Elizabeth Hagermoser-Bayley, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Educational Psychology Hagermoser-Bayley joins the School of Education after working as a clinician with Mental Health Solutions in Madison, Wisconsin since 2017. Hagermoser-Bayley earned her doctorate in educational psychology from UW–Madison in 2016. Hagermoser-Bayley’s work emphasizes school mental health, clinical applications of psychology, cross-setting collaborations, and the development …
James Pustejovsky, associate professor, Department of Educational Psychology After earning his PhD in 2013 from Northwestern University, Pustejovsky has been a statistician and assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught in the Educational Psychology Department and the graduate program in quantitative methods. His research involves …
David Klingbeil, assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology Klingbeil returns to Wisconsin after having served as an assistant professor in the School Psychology program of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and prior to that in a similar program at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He earned his PhD at …
The National Science Foundation’s DRK-12 program has awarded a $2.7 million grant to Sadhana Puntambekar, Sears Bascom Professor of Educational Psychology. In collaboration with Rebecca Passonneau and ChanMin Kim at Penn State University, Puntambekar will develop a sociotechnical system to support middle school students’ reasoning and explanation writing in science. The project will use two …
Robert Enright, Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science, and Jiahe Wang Xu, graduate student in the Human Development Area, received a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to introduce forgiveness education to fifth grade teachers and students in three world areas known for social unrest: Hong Kong, Israel/Palestine, and Northern Ireland. “Forgiveness education …
The QE community collaborates to better understand a global pandemic June 16, 2020 | By Lynn Armitage, WCER Communications (Left) Daniel Spikol, Malmö University, Sweden; Stefano Schiavetto, Unicamp, Brazil; Karoline Schnaider, Umeå University, Sweden In early April, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, a call went out to a select community around …
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 and On-Line Mathematics Learning” — was recorded and can be accessed via this EMIC web page. Nathan and Alibali The …