Education
Faculty and staff honored at annual Employee Anniversary Luncheon
Faculty and staff members from across the university were honored at the annual Employee Anniversary Luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 28.
What If…
Illustrations by Robert Neubecker Taylor Thompson was concerned how things would go in her first year as a first-grade teacher in a public elementary school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. And, in fact, she found teaching during that 2024–2025 school year to be hard work. “Each day is not rainbows and singing and dancing,” she said. But…
Louisiana’s ‘Let Teachers Teach’ Plan Strikes a Chord
Illustrations by Robert Neubecker This is a sidebar to a longer essay, “What if . . . K–12 Education Reform Efforts Focused on Making Teaching Jobs More Doable?“ Louisiana as a leader in education improvement? The idea would have drawn guffaws for many years. The state had some of the weakest K–12 education records in…
Principals Can Play Big Roles in Teacher Success
This is a sidebar to a longer essay, “What if . . . K–12 Education Reform Efforts Focused on Making Teaching Jobs More Doable?“ Illustrations by Robert Neubecker While pay and benefits matter, the research is clear that many teachers who quit their jobs cite low job satisfaction. And many of them attribute this in…
The Power of Reading: Transforming Student Achievement Through Literacy, Dec. 2
Marquette University Law School and the College of Education will host a program on student achievement, with a focus on reading efforts, on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 12:15 p.m. in Eckstein Hall. The discussion will be led by Alan Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy. The program will examine the current state of reading and…
Book launch and celebration with Dr. Gabriel Velez, Nov. 20
The Center for Peacemaking will host a book launch celebration and conversation with Dr. Gabriel Velez, associate professor of educational policy and leadership in the College of Education, on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in AMU 163. His new book, “Making Meaning of Justice and Peace: A Developmental Lens,” explores how…
Dr. Bill Henk receives Neuner Award for Excellence in Professional Scholarly Publication
Dr. Bill Henk, dean emeritus of the College of Education, received the Neuner Award for Excellence in Professional Scholarly Publication from the American Association of University Administrators at its recent annual conference.
Maya Smart on ‘Reading for Our Lives,’ Nov. 12
Smart is the author of “Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six.”
Creating a counselor pipeline: reimagining mental health care access for northeast Wisconsin, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
A new partnership between Emplify Health by Bellin and Marquette University is aimed at providing better access to mental health care counselors for residents in northeast Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Resch Mental Health Initiative is a pilot program that provides fully supported pathways for students from education to licensure to employment.…
Ahead of the curve: Marquette education students are ready to excel as teachers of reading in post-Act 20 Wisconsin
When the Wisconsin legislature passed Act 20 in 2023, it ushered in a statewide mandate for teachers to use a phonics-based approach when teaching elementary school students to read. The law’s requirement to base literacy instruction on the “science of reading” left elementary schools across the state scrambling to adjust their approach, and it put…