Impact Report: Connecting learning

Dozens of people seated around tables listening to a talk
Faculty and staff from UWM, MATC and MPS gathered on the UW-Milwaukee campus for a meeting in January 2020.

To strengthen the connection between what students learn in high school and in higher education, M3 continually brings together faculty from MPS, MATC, and UWM for collaborative professional development.

Nearly 400 educators participated in continuing education in February 2021. Sessions covered a variety of topics.

  • Teaching for Equity and Inclusion in a Virtual Environment: Attendees learned about inclusive teaching and why it matters for student learning and success, especially amid current inequities and challenges. Educators discovered concrete strategies for practicing inclusive teaching, including techniques to apply these strategies in the virtual classroom.
  • English Language Arts instructors learned new ways to creatively engage students with support from Dasha Kelly Hamilton, who mentors teaching artists and is the City of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin poet laureate. Her work has impacted more than 14,000 students in grades K-12. Participants learned how to better connect creativity to problem-solving.
  • Science faculty focused on how to help students better comprehend dense scientific language, opportunities to create lab investigations in a virtual environment, and “anchoring phenomena” — helping students learn science by investigating real-world situations.