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| 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 2007 conference are available for viewing. |
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This year, ELPA students created two awards to recognize outstanding work by ELPA faculty. At the year-end ELPA celebration on May 19, student representatives presented the inaugural Teacher of the Year award to Prof. Clif Conrad and the Mentor of the Year award to Prof. Jerlando Jackson.
Congratulations to Julie Mead on her promotion to full professor and to Richard Halverson on his promotion to associate professor with tenure.
The American Educational Research Association bestowed its 2008 Palmer O. Johnson Award on ELPA Professor Geoffrey Borman for the article, “Final Reading Outcomes of the National Randomized Field Trial of Success for All” (2007). The Award recognizes the most outstanding article of the year appearing in an AERA-sponsored journal. Read more. Professor Borman also received the AERA Publications Committee Award for Outstanding Participation in Reviewing Submissions for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, his fourth such award as a peer reviewer for AERA journals.
ELPA staff member Sue Reis was recognized April 11 with a Distinguished Service Award at a luncheon sponsored by the Dean. Sue has served the University for more than 30 years and, in her 13th year with ELPA, is the Department's senior staffer. The Department congratulates and thanks Sue for her dedication!
Professor Julie Mead's new course, Legal Rights and Responsibilities for Teachers, debuts in Fall of 2008 as a 502 workshop which addresses the legal aspects of the work of teachers and other public school employees. The course is designed for undergraduate students training to be teachers and other school personnel. For more information, click here. With space limited, early registration is encouraged.
No GRE for master’s degree admission. Applicants will not be required to submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores for consideration, through the November 2009 application deadline.
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The 2008 UW International Education Conference, cosponsored with the Wisconsin Council on the Social Studies, took place March 31-April 1, 2008 at the Marriott–Madison West around the theme of “Planning for Our World: Our Dreams and Our Actions.” The two-day conference offered over 100 breakout sessions with 25 focusing on international and global topics, including Renata Laxova who recounted her life under Hitler and Stalin; the electronic linkage with Madeline Uraneck who recounted her Peace Corps experience in Lesotho; and Harvey Kaye (UWGB) who offered an interesting and illuminating keynote talk on Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. The highlight for the 525 conferees, and 325 general public participants, was Greg Mortenson’s (Three Cups of Tea) spell-binding keynote talk on the education of girls in Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan, followed by his overflowing session on the “Pennies for Peace” program with schoolchildren and teachers. Keep tuned to this website for further information about the 2009 Conference to be held at the Madison Marriott West on Monday-Tuesday, March 16-17, 2009. |
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