News from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UWM colleges, schools and the UWM Libraries are joining a back-to-school shoe drive, hoping to provide repaired and spruced up shoes for Milwaukee Public School students before classes start in the fall. Gently used shoes may be placed in bins located in the lobby of Enderis Hall, the NWQ, Golda Meir Library and Mellencamp Hall. […]
The UW-Milwaukee School of Education and St. John’s on the Lake are teaming to present a speaker series, “Teaching – the New Reality.” The first three scheduled sessions are April 14, May 16 and June 23. All are at 4 p.m. at the St. John’s Cultural Arts Center, 1800 N. Prospect Avenue, South Tower. The […]
UWM hosts three career fairs in the month of April, including the inaugural Education Career Fair.
Gov. Miguel Márquez of the State of Guanajuato in Mexico has appointed Javier Tapia, associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies, as ambassador of Guanajuato to Wisconsin. The purpose of the appointment, Tapia explained, is to encourage his work in fostering collaboration between the two states and their […]
A UWM faculty member helps Milwaukee’s Betty Brinn Children’s Museum design and evaluate an exhibit where children build circuits, make music and learn about science.
A new inter-disciplinary UWM-based project, ArtsECO, is creating a sustainable network of support for new and veteran teachers who teach art or are committed to incorporating art into their teaching.
Michael Steele, associate professor and department chair in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was recently elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE). He joins President-Elect Randolph A. Phillipp (San Diego State University) and Treasurer Anita A. Wager (UW-Madison) as new […]
UWM education students scored well in recent results for the edTPA program. The educative Teacher Performance Assessment is a national method of measuring education students’ readiness to be licensed in Wisconsin as teachers. It incorporates video clips of classroom instruction as well as lesson plans, student work samples, analysis of student learning and reflective commentaries. It is […]
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Dec. 21 at Incarnation Lutheran Church, 1510 W. Keefe Ave., for Diane Pollard, professor emerita from the Department of Educational Psychology. Pollard, who was 71, joined the faculty in 1976 and served as an outstanding member of the UWM community for more than 30 years. Pollard was UWM’s first recipient […]
Best Counseling Degrees, an online resource for exploring the nation’s best counseling degree programs, ranked UWM’s doctoral program in school psychology fourth among the top 50 doctoral programs in the nation. Published in the fall, the ranking was created from a list of programs that were accredited by the American Psychological Association and approved by […]
