After completing on-campus coursework and clinical work in schools and community settings, five School Psychology students are starting a year-long internship at sites across the U.S. Along with a dissertation, the internship is a capstone activity for graduate students. Internship placements are in medical settings, schools, and in communities. Congratulations to these graduate students for …
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 …
Impact 2030 is an ambitious initiative designed to dramatically strengthen our already highly regarded School of Education. Thanks to generous donors who are backing these efforts with $40 million in gift funds, Impact 2030 is helping us push the boundaries of innovation, research, and creativity over the next decade.
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 …