We hold symposia on college readiness, conferences on politics in the classroom, courses on Student-Centered Coaching, equity-focused math and science conferences and summer writing institutes. Our programs serve teachers, the community in Wisconsin, and the world.
All our programs are offered virtually unless otherwise specified.
District or organization specific programming is available. See Our Services page for more details. Contact Lisa Barker at lmbarker@wisc.edu or individual program coordinators to learn more.
Recent Professional Development Opportunities
Teaching About the 2022 Elections
This conference helps educators teach about electoral politics in a way that is engaging, respectful to all points of view, and supported by the best and most current information. September 24 | Grainger Hall
Just Research
This new program allows researchers and research staff to learn skills to promote diversity in study participation and research equity. Created from our decade of experience with the Building Trust program, this partnership is between the Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE) and the Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnership (CCE). October 28 | UW–Madison School of Nursing
Maker Educator Leadership Certificate Program
Classroom teachers and informal educators (e.g., museum, library, and after-school educators) engage in making, conversations and job-embedded professional development to ground their maker-based learning experiences in evidence of student learning and engagement. This program consists of four modules. Module one starts January 11, 2023 | Online
Current and Ongoing Programs
AP Summer Institute
In 2022 UW-Madison will offer both in-person and online APSIs. The in-person session will run from June 21-24, 2022 from 8:30a-4:30p each day.
Online sessions will run in a variety of different weeks throughout the summer. Instruction will be provided with a mix of synchronous and asynchronous methods.
Black History Education Conference
The Black History Education Conference provides a venue where educators across the state and country will be able to share policies, practices, programs, and procedures that have proven effective in promoting high levels of achievement for those often being underserved in our school systems and communities.
Building the Social-Emotional Learning or SEL Classroom
Learners will engage with videos from experts, evaluate research-based articles, explore examples of SEL in classrooms, engage with other course participants, and complete a series of implementation activities that develop into an SEL plan for their classroom. Asynchronous, Online, Available Now!
Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools
The Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools is an invitation to instructional leaders around the world who are committed to equity and anti-racism in their school communities.
College, Career, and Community Writers Program
Answer the contemporary call for respectful argument discourse. This program provides educators with instructional resources and formative assessment tools for the teaching of evidence-based argument writing.
Early Career Teaching Institute
This five-day institute invites educators to gather as a collaborative community committed to deepening content knowledge, improving instruction, and sharing habits and practices for thriving in the teaching profession. July 25-29 | Discovery Building, UW–Madison
Futures of Education
This year’s Educational Policy Studies Conference, The Futures of Education, is based on/rooted in the once-in-a-decade UNESCO report, pulled together by a broad international committee with diverse representation and focus groups conducted across many countries.
GMWP Professional Learning
The Greater Madison Writing Project provides professional development opportunities for educators built around our vision of teachers at the center and students at the heart.
INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING OPPORTUNITIES
School-based instructional coaching aims to increase student learning by providing continuous, relevant, and job-embedded support to teachers.
Invitational Yearlong Institute
The Yearlong Institute represents the first leg in what thousands of Writing Project Teacher-Leaders around the country have described as a career-transforming journey.
Invitational Summer Institute
The Invitational Summer Institute brings together a select group of outstanding teachers working with student-writers in all academic content areas and at all grade levels, kindergarten through college.
Leading a Liberated District for Transformative Change
How can superintendents lead for equity? This innovative institute creates a superintendent community of practice centered around research-based approaches that support school district leaders and schools to embrace and implement equity-centered leadership.
Math Equity Project
Collaborate as a professional community of math educators to investigate, experience, and implement research-based teaching practices that promote equity in math education.
MSAN Institute
The MSAN Institute is a virtual, two-day, intensive professional learning opportunity dedicated to growing our understanding of current research and district practices that increase racial equity in schools. | Online, April 19–20, 2022
PLAY MAKE LEARN
The Play Make Learn Conference promotes high-quality learning opportunities for educators, researchers, developers, designers, foundation leaders, policy makers, museum and library professionals, and school leaders who are dedicated to promoting making, gaming, and playful learning.
Real Talk for Real Change
The Real Talk for Real Change symposia series is open to the public and focuses on the critical issues of racial justice in education by centering the voices of UW–Madison scholars of color and community members.
THE SANDRA ALPERT NATHAN SUMMER LITERACY INSTITUTE
This two-day conference guides educators in selecting and making texts accessible for readers below grade level.
The Teacher Studio
The Teacher Studio is a learning community made up of educators interested in hands-on, making, tinkering, and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math)-based learning experiences.
Teaching About the Holocaust
This full-day workshop will have sessions valuable to both Social Studies and English Language Arts educators and prepare Social Studies teachers to implement Act 30. Educators will receive tangible resources and lesson plans to supplement their new curriculum.
Teaching Local Environmental Issues to Latinx Students
This program is for rural social studies, science, and ESL educators who work with students in grades six through twelve.