Category: Spotlight News

School of Education welcomes 11 new faculty members to campus (Lingbo Tong, Anna Julia Cooper Fellow (2025-26) and assistant professor (starting in fall 2026), Department of Educational Psychology)

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  A new cohort of 11 exceptional faculty members is joining the UW–Madison School of Education in 2025-26. To welcome these newest members of our community — and to reconnect with colleagues and celebrate the start of the new school year — the School is hosting its annual Welcome Back Bash event for faculty and …

New UW–Madison fellowship helps teachers examine classroom use of artificial intelligence

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Helping teachers examine and harness artificial intelligence to support their work is at the heart of a new fellowship offered by the UW–Madison School of Education. The Disillusioning AI for Teachers Fellowship, which launched this month, offers four in-depth sessions and robust out-of-class engagement opportunities aimed at increasing educators’ skill in using artificial intelligence thoughtfully, ethically, …

UW–Madison’s Karumbaiah featured on Bloomberg’s ‘Wall Street Week’

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UW–Madison’s Shamya Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was recently featured on Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week” in a segment titled, “Can AI Replace Teachers?” The program, which aired on Oct. 12, examined how artificial intelligence is being used in classrooms across the country to help teachers tailor instruction …

Paper on AR and math education earns top award at international conference

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UW–Madison graduate student Chaeyeon Kim received the award for Best Doctoral Colloquium Paper at the 11th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) in June. Kim Kim’s paper, “A Comparison of Teachers and Students in Categorizing and Representing Geometric Conjectures using AR Simulations,” investigates how high school geometry teachers and students use augmented reality (AR) to …

Bucky’s Classroom Star: Helping 7th graders across the state prepare for college

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By Serena Wang Stephanie Kressin of UW–Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom team meets with 7th-grade students at Maplewood Middle School in Menasha, Wisconsin. (Photo: Bryce Richter) In her five years working for University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Bucky’s Classroom program, Stephanie Kressin has visited 256 classrooms in more than 100 schools across Wisconsin, reaching a total of 6,863 students.  It’s …

Lauren Knuckey and Sahian Cruz, School Psychology students, receive 2025 Kratochwill Award

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Two School Psychology PhD students, Lauren Knuckey and Sahian Cruz, were each awarded a 2025 Thomas R. Kratochwill Dissertation Award to Advance Prevention and Intervention Sciences. Lauren writes, “I am grateful to have received the Thomas R. Kratochwill Dissertation Award for Summer 2025. My dissertation focused on creating a family-school-community collaboration framework that was based …

UW–Madison’s Karumbaiah receives early career award in learning analytics

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By Laurel White A School of Education faculty member has received an internationally competitive award from the Society for Learning Analytics Research that will support her research on bias in artificial intelligence tools. Karumbaiah Shamya Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, received the organization’s annual ECR Research Grant. The honor recognizes a promising early …

UW–Madison School of Education, Educational Psychology again ranked No. 1 by U.S. News

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UW–Madison is home to the top-ranked school of education in the nation for a second consecutive year, according to the 2025 U.S. News & World Report Best Education Graduate Schools rankings published on Tuesday. The UW–Madison School of Education is solely at the top of this year’s U.S. News education school rankings, after tying for No. 1 …

Ed Psych Faculty win School of Education Awards

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Read the full article with all 2025 Faculty and Staff Award Winners here. Faculty Distinguished Achievement Awards The Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award recognizes faculty members who have made contributions and demonstrated continued excellence in each of the three areas of teaching, research, and service. James Wollack Department of Educational Psychology For more than two decades, …

Four from School of Education named 2025 AERA Fellows

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The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced the selection of 29 exemplary scholars as 2025 AERA Fellows — including four who are faculty members with UW–Madison’s School of Education. The AERA Fellows Program honors scholars for their exceptional contributions to, and excellence in, education research. Nominated by their peers, the 2025 Fellows were selected by the Fellows …