{"id":14698,"date":"2020-09-02T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=14698"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T20:54:47","slug":"heather-johnson-phd-wins-1-6-million-national-science-foundation-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2020\/09\/02\/heather-johnson-phd-wins-1-6-million-national-science-foundation-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Johnson, PhD, Wins $1.6 Million National Science Foundation Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>University of\u00a0Colorado\u00a0Denver associate professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.ucdenver.edu\/about-us\/faculty-directory\/heather-johnson-ucd47727\">Heather Johnson, PhD<\/a>,\u00a0received a $1,599,774 grant from the National Science Foundation\u00a0last week.\u00a0Johnson\u00a0is an associate professor in CU Denver\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.ucdenver.edu\/\">School of Education &amp; Human Development<\/a>\u00a0where she focuses her work on STEM education.\u00a0The\u00a0grant-winning\u00a0project,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teacher.desmos.com\/curriculum\/view\/5b60949dd5e0c30f58408405\">Promoting Mathematical Reasoning and Transforming Instruction in College Algebra<\/a>\u00a0(ITsCRITiCAL), is a collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver, Santa Fe Community College, and Texas State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want math classes to\u00a0be places where students can engage in reasoning, not just find answers,\u201d Johnson said.\u00a0\u201cWe collaborate with faculty across institutions\u00a0to create spaces where that can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This project aims to serve\u00a0students in the United States by transforming\u00a0education\u00a0practices in college-level\u00a0algebra to promote students\u2019 reasoning.\u00a0As society sees an increase in the need for\u00a0STEM professions, it\u2019s important for students to\u00a0be prepared for the\u00a0new\u00a0changes.\u00a0With this grant, Johnson and her colleagues look to\u00a0reach three research goals\u00a0to better STEM education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ucdenver.edu\/university-of-colorado-denver-professor-wins-1-6-million-national-science-foundation-grant\/\">Read the full article at CU Denver News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of\u00a0Colorado\u00a0Denver associate professor\u00a0Heather Johnson, PhD,\u00a0received a $1,599,774 grant from the National Science Foundation\u00a0last week.\u00a0Johnson\u00a0is an associate professor in CU Denver\u2019s\u00a0School of Education &amp; Human Development\u00a0where she focuses her work on STEM education.\u00a0The\u00a0grant-winning\u00a0project,\u00a0Promoting Mathematical Reasoning and Transforming Instruction in College Algebra\u00a0(ITsCRITiCAL), is a collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver, Santa Fe Community College, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-house","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}