Madison Education Partnership
Tory Ash works with Lachele in the ITP program and is a graduate student in psychology. Ash is also an intern in the Department of Professional Learning within the Madison Metropolitan School District. She is particularly interested in evaluating equity-focused initiatives within the district.
Becca Bier is a graduate student in sociology working with ITP and MEP’s 4K project. Since 2021, Becca has collaborated with MMSD’s Department of Early Learning and Research and Innovation on an evaluation of the district’s full-day 4-year-old Kindergarten (4K) program. The two-year evaluation assesses student skill gains in early literacy, numeracy, and executive function in …
Victor Feagins is a graduate student in quantitative methods, working with ITP. Victor is currently working with the Research, Assessment, and Improvement Department to improve dashboards and streamline reporting to the board of education (BOE).
Tory Jay is a graduate student in psychology who works with Patti in ITP. Jay observes classroom lessons, interviews teachers, and reviews curriculum to understand the barriers to and affordances for supporting conceptual knowledge of mathematics in MMSD middle school algebra and algebra-readiness classes. This work will help the district identify curricular supports and professional …
Alex Latham is a graduate student in school psychology and works with ITP. Latham is currently working with the Research, Assessment, and Improvement Department to evaluate early screeners for risk of literacy challenges. Specifically, we are investigating how accurately brief Spanish and English reading assessments can predict important outcomes like Forward Exam Performance. Accurately predicting …
Kat Swerbenski is a graduate student in psychology and works with the R&I climate team through ITP. Swerbenski works with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) to evaluate how school belonging and climate are being assessed within the district. She has also been interviewing students about what school belonging means to them. This project hopes …