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Monday, March 10
 

8:45am MDT

"No Sabo Kid": Linguistic Oppression Among Latinx Students in-and-out of School Contexts and Opportunities for Linguistic Empowerment
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
Flores (2017) mentions the idea of semilingualism being "not fully proficient in either English or Spanish" (p. 77) among Latino students in the United States as an ongoing issue. Today, many Latinx students are being surrounded by the phrase "no sabo" (a non-standard use of the first person, present tense conjugation of the verb saber/to know) as a label for being Latinx but not knowing Spanish. I would like to present the dilemma but offer opportunities for linguistic empowerment for bilingual students. As a former English learner and now teacher educator, Carlos Orozco hopes to allow for space for teachers to reflect on their actions as a teacher for dynamic bi/multilingualism and how teachers can help create a classroom that empowers and affirms bi/multilingual students without centering "academic" language proficiency.

Learning Goals
  • Identify the linguistic oppression that Latinx students are facing in-and-out school contexts
  • Reflect and identify ways to foster a classroom environment that affirms and empowers bi/multilingualism without thinking of language proficiencies.
Speakers
avatar for Carlos Orozco

Carlos Orozco

Teaching Faculty, UW-Madison, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
Room 309 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

8:45am MDT

Effective Mathematics Teaching through the Umbrella of Questioning
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
During this session, participants will read and engage in the practice of questioning in the mathematics classroom.  We'll experience a lesson and review the why behind how thoughtful questions build student knowledge and depth of understanding.  Further, we will deepen our "teacher moves" for implementing questioning in the classroom and debrief this experience, creating goals for next steps.

Learning Goals
  • I can understand the different types of questions and why these are important in the math classroom.
  • I can plan for the different types of questions based on the mathematical goal.
  • I can implement questioning through different teacher move strategies the ensure all students have a full understanding.
Speakers
avatar for Lisa Hennessey

Lisa Hennessey

Teaching Faculty and Secondary Math Program Coordinator, UW-Madison
Pro-active | Communicator | Organized | Coach | Problem-solverDetermined lifelong learner and educator. Dedicated to leading team and individual growth and development, centering equity. Warm demander in all relationships.My purpose is to ensure that all students are seen and valued... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
Room 313 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

8:45am MDT

Improving Student Learning through Discussion
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
In this interactive session, participants will learn about The Discussion Project and will experience three techniques for getting students talking and engaging in high quality discussion.

Learning Goals
  • Understand the importance of high quality discussion for student learning. 
  • Distinguish between discussion and other forms of student talk.
  • Learn different ways to structure and facilitate discussion.
  • Implement strategies that develop students’ discussion skills.
Speakers
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Susan Gevelber

Program Manager for The Discussion Project and Instructor for Education Policy Studies, WCER
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
Room 325 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

8:45am MDT

The Power of Routines and Roles in Relationships
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
We often think of using roles and routines in our classrooms as ways to guide group work. These systems can also serve as ways to foster relationships and deepen learning both for students and for staff. Come ready to share your practice and learn from others.

Learning Goals
  • Learn and discuss ways in which roles and routines impact staff and student relationships.
  • Collaborate and develop next steps in your teaching practice.
Resources we'll explore: 

https://curriculum.eleducation.org/sites/default/files/curriculumtools_classroomprotocols_053017.pdf

https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u1469/2019/Appendix-B-Discussion-Protocols.pdf

Speakers
avatar for Shawn Jacobs Schroedl

Shawn Jacobs Schroedl

Field Cohort Supervisor, UW-Madison
I am passionate about public education, empowering educators, and supporting one another.
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
Room 326 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

8:45am MDT

Teachers as Policy Agents
Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
As professionals, teachers should be at the center of creating the policies that affect their daily decisions in the classroom and beyond. Join educational policy scholars from Wisconsin Education Policy Outreach and Practice (“WEPOP”) at UW-Madison in an introductory session called “Teachers as Policy Agents”. We will engage in interactive discussions and activities designed to change the way teachers think of themselves as policy experts, policy makers, and policy advocates. Participants will leave with policy action ideas for an issue important to them and their classroom, as well as tools for building coalitions with others around education policy.

Learning Goals
  • Understand the tenets of educational policy and policymaking 
  • Understand one's role as a policy agent 
  • Develop a next steps related to a policy issue important to your work
Speakers
avatar for Molly Garner Carroll

Molly Garner Carroll

Researcher & Evaluator, Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative | Wisconsin Center for Education Research Mary T. Kellner Teacher Education Center
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Deonte Iverson

Doctoral Candidate, ELPA, UW-Madison
avatar for Shahanna McKinney-Baldon

Shahanna McKinney-Baldon

Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Monday March 10, 2025 8:45am - 10:15am MDT
Room 213 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

10:30am MDT

[CT Only] Assessment Party: Reframing, reflecting, and reconnecting with your practice
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
In this session you will have the opportunity to try Playful Learning & Assessment for Impact Lab’s (PLAI Lab) game for educators and designers called Assessment Party. This is new and improved based on feedback from educators at ECTI 2023!
The game will help you think more deeply about assessment as a process of making claims based on evidence of student learning. After playing the game, we will spend time reflecting on the experience and how it can provide new ideas for approaching assessment in classrooms and informal learning spaces.

Learning Goals
  • Think more deeply about assessment as a process of making claims based on evidence of student learning.
  • Reflect on how to better design assessment tasks to elicit student understanding
Speakers
avatar for Val Hammer

Val Hammer

PhD student, UW-Madison
avatar for YJ Kim

YJ Kim

Assistant Professor, UW-Madison
avatar for Kailea Saplan

Kailea Saplan

Arts Educator & PhD Candidate, UW-Madison
Kailea Saplan (she/they) is a mixed-race scholar, teaching artist, and actor, originally from the island of Hawai’i. They hold bachelors’ degrees in Theatre and Philosophy at Pacific University (Forest Grove, OR), and a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) from... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 112 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

10:30am MDT

[CT Only] Mentoring Conversations in Reflective Dialogue
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
In this session, current cooperating teachers and aspiring cooperating teachers (mentor teachers) are encouraged to attend and learn about the power of building a reflective and question based relationship with teacher candidates.  This session will include considering coaching moves that can be fostered to help teacher candidates build their capacity and growth on specific goals.  We will also watch a brief video clip to practice collecting data to drive conversations and pre-plan questions for debrief discussions.  Then, we will practice these debriefs in mock scenarios.  On the whole, we will elevate expertise in the room regarding serving as cooperating teachers on when to be direct versus fostering collaborative thinking with teacher candidates.  All levels of classroom instruction and experiences as mentor teachers are welcome.

Learning Goals
I can collect data tied to specific teacher candidate goals.
I can prepare questions to elevate discourse and reflection in teacher candidates.
Speakers
avatar for Lisa Hennessey

Lisa Hennessey

Teaching Faculty and Secondary Math Program Coordinator, UW-Madison
Pro-active | Communicator | Organized | Coach | Problem-solverDetermined lifelong learner and educator. Dedicated to leading team and individual growth and development, centering equity. Warm demander in all relationships.My purpose is to ensure that all students are seen and valued... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 121 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

10:30am MDT

Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools: Learning How to Engage in an Anti-Racist Cycle of Inquiry
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
The Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools (the Coalition) utilizes the anti-racist cycle of inquiry, developed by Sandra Taylor-Marshall and Dr. Anjalé Welton, to build and develop members’ capacity to become leaders of anti-racist change. While Sandra’s and Dr. Welton’s expertise is in the education realm, their combined knowledge around coaching and anti-racist organizational change makes the Coalition’s approach theoretically sound and practically significant for PK-12 and higher education educators alongside people outside of education interested in bringing about anti-racist organizational change in their own spheres of influence. Members of the Coalition build relationships and network within and beyond the Coalition, energizing and empowering one another to develop new action plans and deepen existing ones throughout the year-long engagement. In this session, an overview of the Coalition and the anti-racist cycle of inquiry will be provided. Session attendees will then engage with the four phases of the inquiry cycle as they discuss and workshop a problem of practice. Finally, participants will contemplate problems of practice within their professional contexts to which they might apply the anti-racist cycle of inquiry.

Learning Goals
  1. Learn about the Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools and the anti-racist cycle of Inquiry.

  2. Workshop a problem of practice specific to race through the anti-racist cycle of inquiry.

  3. Consider ways to apply the anti-racist cycle of inquiry to a problem of practice specific to race in your professional context.

Speakers
avatar for Sandra Taylor-Marshall

Sandra Taylor-Marshall

Professional Learning Manager / Co-Director: Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools, UW-Madison
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 325 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

10:30am MDT

Finding Mindful Balance in the Teaching Profession
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Being a public school educator in these modern times requires finding joy and delight in a busy environment in order to sustain the committment to a very important profession. Tuyet Cullen has been teaching for 20 years through many ups and downs. She finds immense joy in being a teacher along with stress and frustration.  Staying balanced with two very different experiences takes mindful practice.  At this workshop, Tuyet will share her journey from starting as a newbie in 2004 to incorporating her mindfulness practice into her pedagogy and classroom management.

Learning Goals
  • Cultivate a mindfulness practice to stay present and focused as a public school educator.
  • Cultivate a commitment to finding the joy in work with students.
Speakers
avatar for Tuyet Cullen

Tuyet Cullen

8th Grade Teacher, MMSD
Tuyet Cullen has been a public school teacher since 2004.  Teaching is her vocation and she is drawn to the delight that comes from learning with and about middle schoolers. She is committed to using mindfulness to support students in their learning journey and to support her stamina... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 326 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

10:30am MDT

Navigating Pedagogical Challenges and Fostering Educational Change through design thinking
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Teachers are individuals who deeply care about the development of their students and communities. However, as professionals, they regularly encounter and navigate complex systemic challenges in their daily work. In their daily practice, teachers are pivotal in challenging and dismantling harmful structures that impede their efforts to foster student well-being and curiosity. The path to real change begins with a candid acknowledgment of pedagogical shortcomings that contribute to classroom inequities, encompassing factors like race, gender, class, disabilities, and language. Equally important is a clear understanding of the systemic power imbalances that sustain these disparities. Educators who are socially and politically conscious employ design thinking and interdisciplinary pedagogy as tools for direct action, striving to reform unjust systems.

We invite you to join us for an interactive session designed to apply the principles of design thinking. Through engaging activities and discussions, participants will delve into identifying educational inequities in mathematics education, recognizing implicit biases, exploring the influence of social structures on educational disparities, and acquiring foundational tools for initiating meaningful change and promoting justice in education.

Learning Goals
  • Build a framework of design principles & tools that can be used as a basis for future interdisciplinary pedagogical design
  • Create an action plan tailored to innovating educational change on an issue that holds significance to them
  • (optional) Become a part of an ongoing community of teachers aimed to further support teachers in implementing design thinking to promote educational change and justice within their classrooms and schools. The six follow-up sessions during the 2024-25 school year will feature a panel of local secondary teachers (Mathematics, social studies, generalists) from public and alternative schools in the greater Madison area, actively leading educational transformation efforts despite existing inequities in mathematics education.
Speakers
avatar for Priyanka Agarwal, Ph.D.

Priyanka Agarwal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, UW-Madison
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 313 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

10:30am MDT

Teaching Culturally & Act 31: Building Your Students’ (And Your Own!) Indigenous Literacy with PBS Resources
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Learn more about Indigenous cultures, in Wisconsin and beyond, with PBS multimedia collections like Molly of Denali and Wisconsin First Nations. These free, standards-aligned resources span all grade levels and readily work to fulfill Act 31, which requires all Wisconsin public schools to teach the history, cultures, and tribal sovereignties of its First Peoples. These resources provide the means to teach culturally rather than teach about culture. Each collection includes authentic perspectives regarding historical and contemporary Indigenous peoples and their ways of life by examining various forms of informational texts including videos, maps, games, learning apps, and historical documents.

Learning Goals
  • Learn about the wide variety, spanning grade levels, of Indigenous-focused multimedia educational resources from PBS
  • Consider new ways to integrate Indigenous-focused resources into your existing curricula and/or to build personal background knowledge
  • Connect Indigenous-focused resources and lesson-planning ideas to the mandates of Act 31 to ensure culturally responsible, complaint teaching in your learning space
Speakers
avatar for Michael Hartwell

Michael Hartwell

Education Engagement Specialist, PBS Wisconsin
Michael Hartwell will be representing PBS Wisconsin Education.
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 309 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

10:30am MDT

Outdoor Learning
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Come join this experienced elementary teacher who does powerful outdoor education with her students each week from September through June. With years of experience to draw from, she will share stories, advice, curriculum ideas, and examples of how to do this work in addition to and integrated into regular academic/curriculum responsibilities, what the challenges are, and how to get school leadership on board. She has also conducted action research on this work, worked with community organizations to build an outdoor learning lab on site, and with colleagues across the area has advocated with school and district leadership about the importance of outdoor education especially in schools serving minoritized and marginalized student populations.

Learning Goals
  • Practical advice on how to organize and facilitate outdoor learning program as a regular component of the weekly schedule
  • How to turn any outdoor ed concept into an engaging game for your students
  • Tips for advocating for integrating outdoor learning as a critical component of elementary curriculum.
  • Resource sharing and network building: guiding and supporting texts and websites; year-long plan examples; opportunities to network and collaborate with other teachers who integrate outdoor education
Speakers
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Josie Guiney

Teacher, Lincoln Elementary School, MMSD
Monday March 10, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 213 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

12:00pm MDT

Lunch & Resource Tables
Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Alumni Lounge 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

12:00pm MDT

Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools
Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Speakers
avatar for Sandra Taylor-Marshall

Sandra Taylor-Marshall

Professional Learning Manager / Co-Director: Coalition for Leading Anti-Racist Schools, UW-Madison
Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Alumni Lounge 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

12:00pm MDT

PBS Wisconsin
Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Speakers
avatar for Michael Hartwell

Michael Hartwell

Education Engagement Specialist, PBS Wisconsin
Michael Hartwell will be representing PBS Wisconsin Education.
Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Alumni Lounge 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

12:00pm MDT

School of Education Career Center
Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Stop by the Career Center's table and learn about the continued services we provide to our alumni! We support recent alums for up to five years after graduation. We offer assistance with:
  • Updating your resume
  • Finding and applying for other positions
  • Licensure questions
  • Searching and applying for graduate school programs
  • and more!
More information can be found on our website: https://careercenter.education.wisc.edu/
Speakers
avatar for Zack Minnier

Zack Minnier

Career & Internship Advisors, SoE Career Center
The School of Education's Career Center offers continued support to alumni for up to five years after graduation! If you need any help updating resumes, finding and applying for other positions, interviewing, searching and applying for graduate school, or licensing questions - we're... Read More →

Monday March 10, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Alumni Lounge 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

1:15pm MDT

[CANCELLED] [CT Only] Making the Most of the CCBC
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Perhaps you peruse the annual edition of CCBC Choices to find out about a few new best books of the year, or maybe you email the CCBC librarians when you need a certain type of text. In this session, we will go deeper into the CCBC treasury of tools. We will offer a refresher on the range of resources available to Wisconsin teachers and librarians, as well as share ways these resources are utilized by educators. Join us for a rich and interactive session about the many ways in which high quality diverse books for children and teens can be part of your teaching. Bring your questions about book subjects, diversity representation, intellectual freedom, the love of reading, and more to this session led by CCBC librarians.
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 121 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

1:15pm MDT

[CT Only] Interrogating Information: How to Implement Media Literacy Skills and Strategies Into Any Learning Space
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Media Literacy builds upon traditional literacy skills like reading and writing and prepares students to think critically about all sources of communication. It empowers young people to be critical thinkers and makers, effective communicators, and active citizens. In this workshop, participants will investigate tools that allow them to integrate media literacy analysis and student-created media into their instruction. They will also explore resources that can enhance their own media literacy expertise from a trusted educational media organization. With guidance from presenters, participants will create their own media literacy-focused lessons that could earn credentials, leading to PBS Wisconsin Media Literacy Certification.

Learning Goals
  • Explore high-impact media literacy skills and strategies and how they can be practiced and scaffolded across grade levels and learning spaces
  • Consider how media literacy can be authentically taught and integrated into existing curricula, regardless of content area
Speakers
avatar for Michael Hartwell

Michael Hartwell

Education Engagement Specialist, PBS Wisconsin
Michael Hartwell will be representing PBS Wisconsin Education.
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 112 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

1:15pm MDT

Computational Tinkering with Octostudio
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
NOTE: Participants will need to have a personal phone or tablet to use during this workshop to use the Octostudio App. The app can be downloaded for iOS or Android here: https://octostudio.org/

In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to tinker with block-based computer programming and physical materials. Computational Tinkering, an idea from the MIT Media Lab and the Exploratorium, is exploring physical and digital materials to try out new ideas, iterate, imagine new possibilities, and develop as creative thinkers.
In this workshop we will use OctoStudio, a free phone or tablet based coding app that allows you to create stories, animations, and games. You'll use the app on your personal device (downloaded from the Google Play or iOS app store) or share with a colleague.

Learning Goals
  • Explore computational tinkering, engaging with computational and computer science ideas in a playful and iterative way.
  • Try out OctoStudio, a free digital creation tool that can be use in a variety of contexts and subject areas.
Speakers
avatar for Peter Kirschmann

Peter Kirschmann

Outreach Learning Designer, UW-Madison
Peter Kirschmann is an Outreach Learning Design Specialist at PLACE. Peter is a designer, educator, and maker interested in creating opportunities for learners to tinker, design, and create personalized and socially meaningful projects. Most recently, Peter was a learning designer... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 313 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

1:15pm MDT

Evolving and Transforming Learning Spaces by Nurturing a Joyful Community
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
How do we build strong, resilient communities that foster learning and a deep sense of belonging? In this workshop, led by veteran MMSD educators, participants will reflect on the ways in which our identities and values shape the learning spaces we create. We'll work together to identify elements of communities that have made our own past learning experiences especially positive and meaningful. The tools we need to transform our classrooms and other learning environments can always be found within us and between us, thus our time together will center on making connections with other educators and expressing joy as we explore valuable examples of ways to nurture thriving communities.

Learning Goals
  • Participants will reflect on concrete ways to honor and nurture core values in service of building community in learning spaces. 
  • Participants will explore strategies for strengthening community by keeping identity expression, relationship-building, and joy at the center of the work.
Speakers
avatar for Kara Lawson

Kara Lawson

3rd Grade Teacher & Educator Mentor, MMSD
avatar for Katie Nguyen

Katie Nguyen

New Educator Mentor 4K-12, MMSD
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 309 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

1:15pm MDT

Gestures for Teaching: Handy Ways to Promote Student Comprehension & Learning
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
As educators we cannot peer inside our students’ heads to see what they are thinking and learning. It turns out that students’ gestures -- their spontaneous hand and arm movements made while talking and thinking -- provide remarkably useful information. In this session I share what is known about the relation of students’ gestures to their thinking and learning, and show ways that teachers can improve their formative assessment and instructional practices by “hearing” students’ gestures.
Speakers
avatar for Mitchell Nathan

Mitchell Nathan

Professor, UW-Madison
I am currently a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences (Educational Psychology Dept.) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I hold faculty appointments in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the Psychology Department, and the Wisconsin Center ... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 326 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

1:15pm MDT

Making Art to Make Sense of Your Teaching Experience
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
In this workshop, you will engage in simple sculpture making activities (collaboratively and solo) as a means to process, reflect on and gain new insights about your first year/s in the teaching profession. You’ll make art, write about metaphors for teaching and learning that emerge from the creative process, and discuss your findings with colleagues.

Learning Goals
  • Experiment with collaborative and individual sculpture making processes as a means of personal and professional reflection.
  • Write about artistic processes and products to generate metaphors that provide new perspectives on your teaching experience.
  • Discuss insights from making art and making metaphors with other early career teachers.
Speakers
avatar for Mary Hoefferle

Mary Hoefferle

Teaching Faculty, UW-Madison
I've taught art to people of all ages in community and school-based settings for 26 years, and I am a lifelong maker-of-things. I've been in my role at UW-Madison as a Teaching Faculty member for 10 years and serve as a one-stop-shop for art education majors, serving as their academic... Read More →
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 325 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

1:15pm MDT

Teaching the 3 M's of the 2024 Election: Media, Money and Political Messaging
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
“All politics is local” is an often refrain within the world of political campaigns. However, in today's media saturated environment, all politics are local/national/global. This session will focus on strategies and tools for helping young people start with local examples of political messaging via mediums such as local news, their social media feeds, or political advertising. Using this starting point, they will critically analyze the messages constructed in these sources and inquire into why and how they came to see them. This inquiry, for example, includes using available FEC and social media network tools for identifying groups purchasing advertising, who they are targeting, and how effective these ads are. Similarly, they will look at how issues are framed across the state and how they relate to their local context and target audience. Sample versions of these tasks will be modeled in the session and resources will be provided for use in your own classrooms. The goal is to develop informed citizens who can engage critically with a range of political messaging and employ information seeking strategies to understand how policy issues or candidates may impact them locally. Students can also use these skills to employ political messaging to reach others on issues they care about. Implications for this session include a more relevant approach to examining politics authentically, understanding how global/national/state issues impact local contexts, how and why outside groups attempt to influence local politics, and to counter the effects of partisan political rhetoric and the affective polarization it fuels.

Learning Goals
  • Model activities that participants can adapt and implement to foster their students' media literacy and inquiry skills while analyzing how political messaging is occurring in their local areas.
  • Help teachers develop their own skills and knowledge in the areas of political messaging strategies, affective polarization, and the role of special interest groups in political campaigns.
Speakers
JS

Jeremy Stoddard

Professor, UW-Madison
Monday March 10, 2025 1:15pm - 2:45pm MDT
Room 213 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

3:00pm MDT

Group Photo
Monday March 10, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Monday March 10, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Alumni Lounge 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

4:00pm MDT

Keynote: 2023 National Teacher of the Year Rebecka Peterson
Monday March 10, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
2023 National Teacher of the Year Rebecka Peterson is a math teacher who loves stories. Rebecka is in her 15th year of education, the last 11 of which have been at Union High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Rebecka used her platform as National Teacher of the Year to highlight teachers’ stories of the good that is happening in education. She believes that when we learn each other’s stories, we carry a piece of each other with us. This helps us to authentically advocate for our students, teachers, and their communities.

In the midst of a challenging first year of teaching, Rebecka joined other educators in a daily practice of noting "one good thing" in her classroom. They lived by the motto that “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” This habit transformed her work. Rebecka now collaborates with fellow educators, emphasizing the importance of cultivating intentional joy as a means to sustain oneself in the difficult but beautiful profession of teaching.

Rebecka is a proud immigrant of Iranian-Swedish descent and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband, Brett, and their son, Jonas.


Speakers
avatar for Rebecka Peterson

Rebecka Peterson

2023 National Teacher of the Year, Union High School, Tulsa
Monday March 10, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm MDT
Alumni Lounge 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706

5:00pm MDT

Reception
Monday March 10, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm MDT
Monday March 10, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm MDT
Alumni Lounge 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53706
 
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