We host conferences, symposia, and workshops for artists, educators, health professionals, and other community members whose work fosters equity, creativity, and well-being.
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Maker Educator Leadership Certificate Program
Engage in making, conversations, and job-embedded professional development to ground maker-based learning experiences in evidence of student learning and engagement.
New cohort begins January 2025
EPS Conference
This year’s conference will delve into the relationship between advocacy, educational policy, and social transformation and feature a keynote panel on Indigenous language revitalization.
March 7, 2025
Play Make Learn
PML offers high-quality learning opportunities for educators, researchers, developers, designers, & foundation leaders who are dedicated to promoting making, gaming, and playful learning.
August 21-22, 2025
Recent, Current and Upcoming
Building Confident Math Thinkers: Deepening Understanding and Engagement Beyond Procedures
Math teachers from K-8 are invited to a one -week intensive math education workshop presented by the UW-Madison School of Education. The workshop will include 3 in-person days and 2 asynchronous days led by UW faculty/staff experts and K-8 partners.
AP Summer Institute
This year's APSI is offered 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.
July-August 2025
Teaching About the Elections
Politics can be divisive, confusing, and challenging to approach. This conference will help educators find ways to ensure their students can discuss these topics with care, knowledge, and facts.
September 21, 2024
Wisconsin Arts Integration Symposium
Connect with educators and teaching artists while engaging in an interactive professional learning event that centers on social and emotional learning through arts-based strategies.
October 7, 2023
Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools
Calling all instructional leaders around the world, this yearlong coalition is for those who are dedicated to equity and anti-racism in their school communities. This program runs primarily online.
New cohort begins September 2024
Black History Education Conference
Join us to share policies, practices, programs & procedures effective in promoting high levels of achievement for those often underserved in our school systems and communities.
February 16-17, 2024
Early Career Teaching Institute
PreK-12 educators who are School of Education alumni gather to advance justice in the classroom, share habits and practices for thriving in the teaching profession, and more!
July 28-July 31, 2025
Building the Social-Emotional Learning or SEL Classroom
Educators know that the best instruction considers the needs of the whole child and includes social and emotional development. This asynchronous online program supports teachers in fully integrating SEL into their everyday teaching.
Ongoing