UW-Madison Receives $2 Million for Education Research Project
The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education has announced a $2 million grant from the Wallace Foundation to measure the process and outcomes of equity-centered leadership in schools.
The funding will support the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning–Mapping Equity Indicators (CALL-MEI) project, co-led by UW-Madison Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis professors Rich Halverson and Christopher Saldaña and Columbia University Teachers College professor Alex Bowers. The two-year project aims to develop new equity indicators, evidence models, and data tools. To that end, researchers will work with eight school districts across the country and identify public datasets that can serve as evidence for equity indicators and develop visualization tools for district and school leaders to track the progress of equity-related leadership efforts.
“As a nation, we urgently need a new generation of school leaders who can create conditions for teaching and learning in schools that support social justice, achievement, and equity,” said Halverson.
“By compiling indicators of opportunities to learn as well as achievement, the CALL-MEI project is positioned to be an important resource for addressing systemic barriers in education,” said Wallace Foundation vice president of research Bronwyn Bevan. “The foundation is excited to support an effort to provide powerful new data tools to school leaders.
