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STUDENT SUCCESS

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HONORING A MOTHER

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READING TEST

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SCHOLAR ALLISON HOFFMAN

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ALUMNA KRISHANA ROBINSON

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IN MEMORIAM

Letter from the Dean AS WE MOVE OUT OF THE PANDEMIC AND INTO THE ENDEMIC, we are seeing

many of the negative impacts that COVID-19 has had on our communities and schools.

Our educational systems were disrupted, with many children having to pivot to a remote learning environment with limited social interactions.

While students in suburban areas were able to return to the classroom at least part time, most of our urban students remained online for the majority of the 2021-22 school year. At the only premier urban research university in Wisconsin, the UWM School of Education faculty and staff have been working hard to prepare future teachers to navigate these new challenges.

The School of Education is working with the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare and the School of Information Studies to realign under the College of Community Engagement and Professions. I am excited for the opportunities this alignment brings to the School of Education. It provides new avenues to increase our community impact and to further our innovative education programs.

Faculty and staff have already begun working on identifying synergies and possible collaborations, such as the possibility of expanding the number of future educators receiving education in traumainformed care.

We are also exploring how the new alignment can better position our school to address economic

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inequalities in the Milwaukee community by developing multidimensional responses.

This collaboration will couple expertise across the three schools to increase educational opportunities and reduced social economic and racial gaps in educational achievement, equal access to information, behavioral and mental health services, access to substance use treatments, criminal justice system reforms, the use of technologies to improve education, and the wellness of children and families.

I believe this puts the School of Education in a prime position to further our goals and increase curricular and research collaborations while retaining our current programs and mission.

As always, our alumni, students, staff and faculty profiled in these pages reflect the ongoing work of the School of Education.

In addition, we are pleased to highlight the donors whose contributions to scholarships and research support all the work we continue to do as we transition to the post-pandemic world and prepare to meet future challenges.

Tina Freiburger Dean, UWM School of Education

Contributor Shavonn Montgomery Brown Photographers Martha Deibert Troye Fox Elora Hennessey Stan Shulfer Graphic Designer Allie Kilmer

On the cover Learning to read is vital to students’ future success, so Wisconsin aims to make sure reading teachers are wellprepared. Here, UWM student teacher Sarah Kuchar works with cooperating teacher Jessica Mendoza’s second-grade class at Greenfield Bilingual School.

FEATURE

How to choose a major… and plan a future FIRST-YEAR STUDENT DANIEL MILLER HAD A GENERAL IDEA of what he might be interested in

studying, but he wasn’t sure what specific major he wanted.

Jasmine Salton, a senior in education, had her major nearly completed, but still thought she could benefit from learning more about organizing her busy life and fine-tuning her study skills.

Both say they’ve benefited from the School of Education’s Educational Psychology 110 course – Planning Your Major and Career.

The goal of the three-credit course, which is open to all undergraduates, is to help students choose a major at UWM that suits them. It also invites them to explore their interests, abilities and goals.

“I knew I wanted to be somewhere in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) area,” said Miller, “but I didn’t know the major.”

With the help of the course, which he took in the Fall 2021 semester, he decided to major in mathematics, which gives him options in a number of career areas.

Salton, who works as a receptionist at the front desk of the Office of Student Services while attending school, said the course helps her juggle her multiple obligations.

“Students always ask to spend time on study strategies, planning and time management,” said Vittoria Sipone, an educational psychology doctoral candidate who is one of two graduate student mentors for the course. “They really appreciate going over the resources UWM offers – mostly they ask about the Klotsche Center and

the library.” The other graduate student mentor teaching assistant is Megan Herdt. They work with a team of educational psychology graduate students to teach the course.

Faculty mentors for the course are Nadya Fouad, university distinguished professor and Mary and Ted Kellner endowed chair of educational psychology, and Jacqueline Nguyen, associate professor of educational psychology. They offer a weekly class that provides pedagogical support and content knowledge to the teaching assistants.

Miller said he found tips like how to email a professor helpful as well as class discussions about mindsets and how insecurities can unconsciously limit career exploration. “Sometimes people think they’re not smart enough or the wrong gender for certain fields," Miller said.

Years of research have shown many undergraduates struggle in figuring out a major and a career. Fouad and her colleagues in their research have demonstrated the value of Educational Psychology 110 and similar courses in helping students with these life decisions.

For example, an article Fouad and colleagues wrote, which is now in press for The Career Development Quarterly, showed that a 16-week career exploration course had a significant positive impact on decreasing students’ career indecision.

This was based on data from 102 students who took the Educational Psychology 110 course.

Nadya Fouad

Jacqueline Nguyen

Student Daniel Miller spent time in the library researching career options as part of the course.

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FEATURE

Research looks at impact of key reading exam LEARNING TO READ IS VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR CHILDREN.

In 2014, the Wisconsin Legislature, in State Statute 18.19 (14), mandated all elementary education, early childhood, reading teacher and reading specialist candidates who wish to certify in the state must earn the cut score (passing) on the Foundations of Reading Test (FoRT). In the face of a teacher shortage, the statute was amended in 2019 to allow special education teacher candidates who studied at an educator preparation program that received approval from the Department of Public Instruction to submit a FoRT alternative.

Since implementation, concerns and questions about the FoRT and the benefits of the requirement for certification have been raised.

As a result, the UW System commissioned a FoRT work team of literacy instructors across the system

to collaborate and determine how best to support teacher candidates as they prepare for the exam. Kristine Lize, director of the School of Education’s EAA English Education program and FoRT coordinator, has gotten to know many of the students who struggle with the test. “Some of them have straight A's and have met all program expectations, but struggle with demonstrating their knowledge in this high-stakes test. They are prepared, knowledgeable and so desperately want to be teachers, but find the fourhour computer-based test creates a lot of anxiety.”

Lize, who is part of a work team representing UW Schools of Education, organized a research project to better understand the impact of the FoRT on both teacher candidates and teachers’ self-efficacy and self-identity.

The study results were published in the Wisconsin State Reading Association

(WSRA) Journal in August 2021 and shared at both the Literacy Research Association Conference in November 2021 and the WSRA convention in February 2022.

“Some of them have straight A's and have met all program expectations, but struggle with demonstrating their knowledge in this high-stakes test."

Survey results showed that 249 of the 451 respondents (55%) passed the FoRT on the first attempt. In comparison, according to data collected by the Department of Public Instruction, 12,894 of the 19,458 test-takers (66%) passed the FoRT on the first attempt since the start of testing in Wisconsin.

The study also looked at how teacher candidates prepared for the test and how much time they spent preparing.

The UW System FoRT team will continue its work to support teacher candidates. Among their projects is an update of free online resources and modules published in August 2021 to include content related to the new version of the test, the FoRT 190, which teacher candidates will start taking in August 2022.

Annie Marcks, who has considerable experience as a part-time instructor in elementary education literacy classes, will teach FoRT classes and tutor students for the test this academic year.

Education student Amy Deibert reads aloud to third-grade students at Salem Lutheran School as part of her Literature for Young Children class.

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Alumna Krishana Robinson KRISHANA ROBINSON’S STUDENTS MAY BE WITH HER for a

few days, a few weeks or a few months.

But however long she has them in her classroom at the Vel R. Phillips Juvenile Justice Center, she tries to leave them with a positive message about making better decisions.

She tells them: “I know you were born to be more than that.”

Robinson, who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in exceptional education from UWM, started teaching for Milwaukee Public Schools in 2008. She applied for a summer job in Wauwatosa in 2017. The position was at the Vel R. Phillips Juvenile Justice Center School, which is part of the Wauwatosa School District. When the summer ended, the district asked her to stay on full time.

The work is challenging and sometimes wears on her soul, she said, but she is committed to teaching the young people she works with on both academics and social-emotional learning.

“It’s not just teaching reading and writing.”

She cares deeply about each of her students, celebrating their achievements, but is saddened when one of them shows up in a crime report on the evening news.

“It’s not just those who commit another crime as an adult; it’s those who are victims of crime themselves at 16.”

Robinson said she tries to balance those moments by trying to help each student find their strength and light. “I try to find the quality within them that helps them avoid bad decisions in the future.”

For her work, she was nominated for the 2021 Wisconsin Public Education Network Changemaker of the Year award

“I try to find the quality within them that helps them avoid bad decisions in the future.”

along with 10 other educators across the state.

Robinson gives credit to her colleagues at the justice center, and to her education at UWM for helping her succeed.

“UWM did a really good job of teaching education students about cultural relevancy and cultural intelligence.

Cultural relevance wasn’t secondary or an extra. It was expected to inform our teaching.”

When she started in MPS, Robinson said, “I saw a lot of teachers struggling because they didn’t have the really essential skills for working in urban schools with kids with all kinds of challenges.”

She remembers a number of exceptional education faculty like Judy Winn and Alison Ford (both now retired). “They were so committed to the development of teachers who are successful with students. Our community, our children and our families need that level of investment. UWM is a model of how to prepare for the field.”

Teachers encouraged her, and that’s something Robinson and her colleagues try to bring to the children they work with.

“Every child needs an adult who sees something positive in you, who calls that all out.”

Krishana Robinson teaches at the Vel R. Phillips Juvenile Justice Center.

She was nominated for the 2021 Wisconsin Public Education Network Changemaker of the Year award.

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Thank you to our donors Thank you to the many School of Education donors whose support provides for continued research, improved teaching and learning, and the preparation of the very best educators. We welcome gifts of any size, though space only allows us to include gifts of $100 or more for the most recent fiscal year (July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021) in this issue. Pledges are included in the year they are made. Donors who have given $1,000 or more to UWM are marked with an asterisk as members of the Chancellor’s Society. $10,000+

Bader Philanthropies, Inc.* Harriet Gordon* Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Inc.* • Marsha Ernst Krueger Charitable Fund* • Donald P. Timm Scholarship Fund* Karleen Haberichter* Jean Hoffmann* Lorena Jacobson* Henry S. Kepner, Jr.* Marianne Luther* Northwestern Mutual Foundation* Mrs. Judith S. Salinsky and Dr. Gerald B. Salinsky* $1,000+

Roberta Hannah Thorson Anderson, PhD '55* Stefan Bengtson*

Chicago Community Foundation* • Robert E. Gallegos Fund Maria Cruz* Mary Domer* Gloria Eberling* Dr. Nancy File* David Flores* Maria Flores* Maria Gallegos* Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Inc.* • Benita D. and John Clark* • Cecile M. Foley Scholarship* Gwendolyn and Allen Greeler* William Harvey* Elinor Ihlenfeldt* Julia A. Ihlenfeldt* Jewish Community Foundation of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation*

Kate Dougherty and Aaron Katz* David Katz* Rea Katz* Terrence and Mary Krall* Norma Larson* Barbara McMath and Robert Ferriday* Joanne and Kenneth Neusen* Ivy Nevala* Ruth and Robert O'Toole* Raymond James Charitable* Jean Reif* Emily Kachel Robertson '80* Carlen Schenk* Patricia Schlick* Jeannette Seloover Johnson '62 and R. Douglas Johnson* Jack Simpson*

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FAMILY HONORS MOTHER WITH SOCIAL JUSTICE SCHOLARSHIP

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When Rea Katz and her brothers were discussing a way to honor their mother, Estelle Katz, they decided to do something that would help educators.

“She was a fantastic woman,” said Rea Katz, an associate adjunct professor in the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Illinois.

Their efforts led to the establishment of a new scholarship, the Estelle Z. Katz Scholarship for Social Justice in Education, designed to help public school teachers pursue graduate work.

The daughter of refugees from czarist Russia who settled in Chicago, Estelle Katz was the first in her family to earn a college degree.

Estelle Katz was very much a woman of her times, her daughter recalled. She raised four children and volunteered in her community.

She married William Katz in 1948, and they moved to Madison, then Milwaukee. While raising her family, she was an active volunteer in civic and social justice causes.

Along the way, Katz led a remarkable life, working on the World War II Manhattan Project, helping soldiers with spinal cord injuries, volunteering in Civil Rights-era Freedom Schools, and going on to earn an education degree when she was almost finished raising her children.

Her children aren’t sure why their mother decided to become a teacher in her 50s, said Rea Katz, but they think it might have been the taste of volunteering in the Freedom Schools.

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Estelle turned to UWM to earn teaching certification through a program designed for students who had bachelor’s degrees in

Debbie Konings Joan Kutter Donald Lodzinski James Mather Ann Miletti Edward and Faye Miller John Nolan Patty Lou and William Pohlmann Lynne Ptacek Patricia Luebke and Kenneth Robinson Gary Streaty Sarah Terry Mary M. Walker Cathy Wegner Joan Wells Joan Yuen Dr. John A. Zahorik $100-$249

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Estelle Katz

other areas. She taught in MPS for more than a decade.

“She embodied the hope of immigrant parents and the values from her Jewish heritage in order to better the world we live in, as she taught her students, served her community and unceasingly worked for social justice,” her family wrote.

Estelle Katz died at age 93 in 2018, eight months after her husband of 69 years.

Rea and her brothers, David and Aaron, decided a scholarship to help other public school teachers continue their education, especially around the issues of social justice and equity, would be a fitting memorial. The first scholarship, funded by the friends and family of Estelle Z. Katz, was awarded to Alyssa Molinski in Fall 2021. Two more scholarships will be awarded for the 2022-23 school year.

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AWARDS

Student serves community and saves wildlife ALLISON HOFFMAN COMBINES A LOVE OF pageant competition with a passion for

wildlife rehabilitation.

Hoffman, who received the 2021 Love Kindness award from the School of Education, serves her community through the Miss America program and is also a certified wildlife rehabilitator.

Mike Robertson, an ordained minister and community supporter of UWM, established the Love Kindness scholarship in 2017 as a way to support those who were making a difference in the community.

Hoffman, an elementary education major, was chosen as Miss Beloit Outstanding Teen before coming to UWM and competed in the Miss Wisconsin Outstanding Teen.

She is now active in the Miss America program, a sister program to the Outstanding Teen competitions.

“Miss America is a scholarship pageant, but it’s frequently confused with a beauty pageant, like Miss USA,” Hoffman said. “With Miss America, there are four points to the crown and one of them is service, so it’s all about representing your community.

“When I tell people I rehab raccoons, they think I’m a little crazy,” Hoffman added with a laugh.

She became involved in working with wild animals when she and her mother moved to a small farm near Beloit and volunteered with Wisconsin WildCare. She and her mother work with raccoons, squirrels, opossums and rabbits. Wildlife rehabilitators are licensed, trained and equipped to provide temporary care and treatment to injured, sick and orphaned wild animals. The goal is to release them back into the wild.

Hoffman became interested in pageant competitions during her sophomore year in high school. She enjoys the competitions themselves and the friends she’s made through the program.

She chose UWM and education after looking at one other university. “The minute I toured UWM, I decided this was it. I loved the community and I loved the program.

“I was super excited when I got the scholarship. It was not only being recognized for community service, but it’s really motivational after a tough year. It really reignited the fire.”

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WOMEN’S GIVING CIRCLE GRANTS In 2022, the Women’s Giving Circle funded six projects designed to improve teaching and learning within the field of education.

The Women’s Giving Circle was founded in 2006 to bring together women alumni and former and current teachers of all ages who pool their gifts for greater impact and keep themselves current about education through their promotion of the School of Education and its educational research.

This year’s grant recipients are designing projects and research intended to improve the teaching and learning experience: JENNY BROWNSON, senior lecturer for the elementary education program, Supporting and Mentoring UWM Teacher Candidates CANDANCE DOERR-STEVENS,

associate professor of literacy education, Promoting Teacher Resilience Through Restorative Circles ANGEL HESSEL, distinguished lecturer,

director, elementary education student teachers, Department of Teaching and Learning, Creating Constructive Classroom Learning Environments ANNIE MARCKS, literacy instructor

and assistant FoRT coordinator, Foundations of Reading Test (FoRT): Tutoring to Success JEREMY PAGE, assistant dean for student services, SOE Jumpstart FirstYear Experience DENISE ROSS, associate professor of education and chair of Institute for Urban Education, Curriculum Development for UWM’s Graduate Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis

Read more about their research on the School of Education website. uwm.edu/education/category/news

NEWS BRIEFS

A WINNING EVENING AT PANTHER ARENA School of Education faculty, staff, donors, alumni and friends got a chance to reconnect and show off their Panther Pride in person at the Panthers Men’s Basketball game Feb. 11 at UWM Panther Arena.

Emily and Mike Robertson, longtime supporters of the School of Education, were honored on court during the game.

The Robertsons have donated generously to provide scholarships to students.

Students from the School of Education's Interpreter Training Program, led by Pamela Sue Conine and Theresa Schmechel, signed the national anthem.

DISPLAY HONORS UWM CHILDREN’S LEARNING CENTER’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY The Golda Meir Library helped celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UWM Children’s Learning Center with a history display on the second floor.

The display was put together by Rona Kader Wolfe, social justice educator at the children’s center, with archivist Abigail Nye and library staff.

It highlights the origins of the center and its roots in the need for on-campus child care in the early 1970s as more women came to the university and prepared to enter the workforce.

Looking at the past helped Wolfe see the connections between the work she now does as a social justice educator and the center’s past, she said.

“It’s fun to learn about the history of the center, but to dig into the why of it at that time period was very interesting to me. It had a radical beginning,” Wolfe said.

The center grew out of student families’ needs for child care and early childhood learning. “It was important to learn not only where we came from, but why,” Wolfe said. “What were people looking for? What was important? What were the big ideas?”

One of the items in the display, an excerpt from a student parent’s essay, sums it up: “The time was right and the idea would not be denied.”

The display brings together items from the university’s archives as well as materials stored at the center. Among the exhibits in the display, for example, are letters to the university administration about making the space the center needed, and the center’s importance in helping students continue on with their studies.

Wolfe is an alumna with a degree in elementary and early childhood education. Her mother, Cheryl Kader, was on the

faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, and two of Wolfe’s four children are graduates and another is currently a student.

“We are a Panther family," Wolfe said.

Some of the children currently at the center visited the display recently, taking the opportunity to enjoy Wolfe reading a couple of children’s books from 50 years ago – “Ira Sleeps Over” and “The Snowy Day.” The books give an idea of what people were thinking about in terms of families and values at the time, said Wolfe. The children listening to them half a century later were enthralled.

The display was open during library hours through the end of the Spring semester.

Ryan Rupp attended the Children’s Learning Center as a child and now his own kids do so.

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FACULTY/STAFF

FACULTY AWARDS Congratulations to faculty members on a number of significant accomplishments.

DR. LARRY G. MARTIN, PHD, professor emeritus in

the Department of Administrative Leadership, was honored Oct. 13 at UWM’s Fall Awards Ceremony with the Ernest Spaights award. Martin served UWM and the School of Education from 1983 to 2015.

Martin dedicated his career to adult education. His research and publications focused on the trends and issues that keep adult learners, particularly those who are low income or people of color, from participating in adult education.

He was also a leader of UWM’s diversity and inclusion efforts.

NEW FACES ANKITA NIKALJE will be joining the counseling faculty in Educational Psychology Aug. 22.

POUNCE DEBUTS IN HIS OWN BOOK Pounce the Panther made his literary debut at 2021 Panther Prowl on Oct. 9.

All youngsters attending the Prowl received a copy of a new children’s book, “Hello, Pounce.” The book depicts Pounce’s adventures as he moves around campus enjoying a variety of academic and social experiences highlighting life at UWM. The book’s authors, chosen by the UWM Alumni Association for their experience in children’s literature and education, are Donna Pasternak, professor emerita of English education, and Hope Longwell-Grice, senior associate dean in the School of Education.

"Hello, Pounce" is also available through local and online booksellers.

Hope Longwell-Grice (left) and Donna Pasternak (right) collaborated on a children’s book about Pounce the Panther.

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Nikalje earned her BS in psychology from the University of Ankita Melbourne in Australia and her MS Nikalje in cross-cultural psychology from Brunel University in the United Kingdom. Her doctoral thesis at Purdue University was “CasteCRIT: Caste Critical Race Theory.” She is doing an internship at the Counseling and Wellness Center at the University of Florida this summer before joining UWM. Her research focus is on the mental health impact of casteism and colonization among South Asians.

Her work looks at understanding contemporary consequences of historical oppression and is rooted in Dalit feminist scholarship.

Also joining the School of Education this summer is ANA R. GONZALEZ as assistant to the senior associate dean. Before starting at UWM seven years ago, she worked as a legal secretary/ paralegal. She started at UWM in the Office of Research.

She earned her associate degree in liberal arts and legal studies/paralegal at MATC, and her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice at UWM.

IN MEMORIAM

In Memoriam Mrs. Bobbie N. Ainsworth SOE, BS, 1977

Mr. Robert A. Messner SOE, BS, 1951

Ms. Laurel A. Andres SOE, MS, 1976

Ms. Barbara Jean Michaels SOE, BS, 1956 / SOE, MS, 1960

Mr. Satnam S. Aurora SOE, BS, 1960

Ms. Shannon T. O'Connor SOE, MS, 1992

Mr. Frederick R. Birts SOE, BS, 1968

Mr. Richard A. Perez SOE, BS, 1957

Mrs. Marie A. Brem SOE, BS, 1967

Mrs. Carol Piotrowski SOE, 1962

Mrs. Betty S. Brendemuehl SOE, BA, 1949

Dr. Donald C. Rambadt SOE, BS, 1957 / SOE, MS, 1968

Mrs. Marion J. Bruhn SOE, BA, 1954

Mr. Rufus S. Rodgers SOE, BS, 1952

Mrs. Marilyn C. Cameron SOE, BS, 1953

Mr. Peter T. Roidt SOE, BS, 1957 / SOE, MS, 1961

Mrs. Betty J. Castagna SOE, BA, 1948

Ms. Geraldine Schmit SOE, BS, 1941

Ms. Lorna M. Champion SOE, BS, 1949

Mr. Richard L. Schwartz SOE, MS, 1977

Mr. Glenn A. Ferruzzi SOE, BS, 1950 / SOE, MS, 1957

Ms. Marion L. Stolsmark SOE, MS, 1986

Miss Mary Louise Hitchler SOE, BS, 1958

Dr. Mary P. Taugher SOE, MS, 1969 / SOE, PHD, 1996

Mrs. Neva A. Hodge-Lemorande SOE, MS, 1965

Mr. David J. Tojek SOE, BA, 1974

Mr. Myron C. Howard SOE, MS, 1989

Ms. Mabel C. Wachholz SOE, BS, 1941

Mr. Robert C. Jasna SOE, BS, 1960 / SOE, MS, 1969

Mr. Adolphus A. Ward SOE, BS, 1974 / SOE, MS, 1975

Mr. William J. Laste SOE, BS, 1953 / SOE, MS, 1966

Mrs. Lorraine L. Wiegand SOE, BS, 1975

Mr. James J. Machan SOE, BS, 1962

Mr. Donald L. Zerfas LS, BA, 1962 / SOE, MS, 1967

Mr. James M. McMahon SOE, MS, 1975

BARBARA MICHAELS, a former teacher

and lifelong supporter of education and UWM, died Aug. 7 at age 86.

Michaels, who earned her bachelor’s in 1956 and master’s in 1960 from the School of Education, taught primary grades for more than 40 years in the Fox Point-Bayside School District. After her retirement in 1996, she became an active member of the UWM and School of Education alumni associations, as well as a volunteer and supporter for many UWM organizations.

She was one of the founding members of UWM’s Pi Lambda Theta education honorary chapter, which honored her in 2018 as part of Pi Lambda Theta’s 55th anniversary.

“As the advisor for Pi Lamda Theta, I had the distinct pleasure of working closely with Barbara,” said Robert Longwell-Grice, staff member emeritus.

Michaels was one of the organizers of the Women’s Giving Circle, a group of former educators who pooled their resources to raise money to support education research, scholarships and projects.

PROFESSOR EMERITUS ANTHONY “TONY” HAINS of the Department of

Educational Psychology passed away on Feb. 17.

Tony’s lifelong dedication to the behavioral health of children and adolescents was evident in his research on treatment adherence for youth with cystic fibrosis and in his work at Children’s Wisconsin.

Within the Department of Educational Psychology, he served in many roles, including chair of the department.

After his retirement, he continued his other work as an author of youth occult horror. (The fifth entry in his series, the Nightshade Chronicles, was published on Jan. 11, 2022.)

He is survived by his wife, Ann, who was a longtime School of Education faculty member before her retirement, his daughter, Anastasia, many friends and colleagues at UWM, as well as the innumerable students he impacted during 31 years of teaching.

Donations in his memory can be made to MCW Cancer research or Children’s Wisconsin.

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It is the only program of its kind in the state and one of the few in our region.

The popularity of our ASL program shows that students are eager to learn ASL and have a deep respect for the Deaf culturo-linguistic community.

Our current lab space is not sufficient for student demand. Expanding the lab

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This is why finding funding to expand the ASL Lab is a priority for the School of Education. Please consider supporting the ASL Lab renovation, one of the School of Education’s most urgent needs.

Every dollar counts toward preparing students to be better citizens in our community and in our world.

I would love to talk with you about how you can give a gift of language.

Contact me directly or ask to set up a tour of the ASL Lab to learn more.

Shavonn Montgomery Brown Development Director

Shavonn Montgomery Brown Development Director UWM School of Education 414-251-8214 montgoms@uwm.edu If you would like to support ASL, please send your gift to: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Office of Development and Alumni Relations P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 Attn: Shavonn Montgomery Brown Please make checks payable to the UWM Foundation.