New Glarus High School teacher Peter Bertling has been awarded a fellowship from Field Day Lab at UW-Madison. This award recognizes Mr. Bertling's excellence in teaching and commitment to innovation in the classroom.

As part of the fellowship, Mr. Bertling will work as part of a team to design a dashboard that will provide teachers feedback about the students in their class who are playing an educational game. The dashboard will initially be implemented for Field Day Lab's game Lakeland, a science-based, systems-thinking game about algae and phosphorous, but it will eventually be deployed to all of the games in the Field Day Lab library allowing teachers a glimpse into the minds of their learners.

Mr. Bertling will leverage his expertise by helping to develop an initial design blueprint and providing his insights as an expert educator. Then, Mr. Bertling will test implementation of the dashboard with his students, providing vital feedback that will influence the final design.

The fellowship launched on March 5th, with a celebration and design workshop in Madison. At this two-day event, Mr. Bertling will work alongside other teacher fellows, systems scientists, data scientists, education theorists, and game designers.

Congratulations Peter!