Profile for Daniel Walsh

Brief biography

Daniel R. Walsh, Ph.D. has worked at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of education for over 35 years. Before joining UW-L's Educational Studies Department in August 2024, he was an English Language Fellow with the U.S. Department of State in Cusco & Lima, Perú. There he provided professional learning for Peruvian teachers of English. Prior to this fellowship, he was Teaching Faculty in the Department of Educational Policy Studies (EPS) at the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he taught undergraduate foundations courses such as School and Society; Youth, Education, and Society; and Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in U.S. Schools, as well as a graduate teacher certification course in social and cultural approaches to policy analysis.

Before UW - Madison, Daniel held various leadership roles in the New York City Department of Education including Director of Multilingual Learners, Director of Teaching & Learning, Principal, and Senior Director of Professional Learning. He has 10 years of classroom ESL teaching experience in K-5, high school, and community college settings in both the U.S. and abroad and was a founding team member of The International High School @ Prospect Heights, a school specifically designed to meet the academic and social needs of recently arrived immigrant students learning English. During his doctoral studies, he served as an adjunct in CUNY City College’s Bilingual & TESOL Education program teaching both methods and research courses.