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Announcements

No GRE for master's degree admission. Applicants wil not be required to submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores for consideration through the November 2009 application deadline.

The George Tipler family has funded an annual grant to be given to a student in the administrator preparation program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Mr. Tipler was the former Executive Director of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards. The grant is for the study of a school legal issue. The amount of the grant in 2007 is $700. Read more.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  August 15, 2009

Applications should be sent to:
Julie Mead
Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
1025 W. Johnson St.
Room 1186F
Madison, WI 53706
email:  jmead@education.wisc.edu

ELPA News

The Department bids farewell to Dr. Jennifer Delaney and offers best wishes on her new position at the University of Illlinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ELPA PhD student Cornelius Gilbert was featured as the keynote speaker for the 2009 Black Male Summit, hosted by the African American Academic Network (AAAN's) and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of Illinois-Chicago, April 10, 2009.

Publications

Recent publications by ELPA faculty and graduates:

• Department Chair Paul Bredeson's text, Designs for Learning: A New Architecture for Professional Development, has been translated into Chinese and published by Psychological Publishing Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan.
• Professor Carolyn Kelley and Racine Schools Superintendent Jim Shaw have a book forthcoming from Corwin Press: Learning First! A School Leaders' Guide for Closing Achievement Gaps.
• The second edition of Professor Kent Peterson's text, Shaping School Culture, was published by Jossey-Bass Publishers. Another book by Professor Peterson, Leadership Paradox: Balancing Logic and Artistry in Schools, has just been translated into Korean.
• Teachers College Press is publishing The School Leaders Our Children
  Deserve: 7 Keys to Equity, Social Justice & School Reform by ELPA graduate
  George Theoharis. Read more.

Awards and Recognition

At the ELPA end-of-the-year party and commencement celebration, graduate students recognized Dr. Jennifer Delaney as Teacher of the Year and Dr. Carolyn Kelley as Mentor of the Year. This is the second year in which ELPA graduate students have recognized faculty with these awards. ELPA graudate Jason Johnson received an award for the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year.

Recognized by the School of Education for their 30 years of service to the university were ELPA professor and former chancellor John Wiley and Student Services Coordinator Shari Smith. The Department congratulates and thanks both of them for their dedication and service.

Conferences

The 2009 Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies and International Education Annual Conference was held on Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at the Madison Marriott West.  Keynoters: Gretchen Steidle Wallace, co-author and producer of the Sundance Documentary winner, The Devil came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur spoke on “Global Grassroots: Social Entrepreneurship Training and Funding for Women” and UW Professor Jeremi Suri, author of the award-winning, Kissinger and the American Century,spoke on “Kissinger and the Transformation of American Society since WWII.” For complete conference information, click on the IEC logo.

ELPA sponsored the 2008 Wisconsin Idea Leadership Academy conference, "Strategies for Doubling Student Performance," held July 7-10, 2008, at the Fluno Center on the UW-Madison campus. Presentations from the 2008 conference are available for viewing.

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