Emily Whittington received the Faculty Professional Enrichment Recognition Award from Pima Community College in April. The award is for innovative and outstanding faculty activities that have positive impacts on students, the College and/or the community. The recognition is an award of $500 and the award includes a certificate describing the activity. Emily was nominated by a team of seven of her colleagues in Pima’s Mathematics Department. These faculty nominated her for her work supporting full-time and adjunct faculty in developing their teaching skills. The nominating team specifically cited her support of the faculty using inquiry in teaching mathematics as the Principle Investigator for Pima Community College’s TfP project.   Emily has led Pima Community College to develop Professional Learning Communities for faculty at the college that meet monthly to develop a catalog of field-tested lessons, further refined by these faculty participating in lesson study, to improve student outcomes and faculty implementation of active learning strategies. Emily was instrumental in Pima Community College’s award of the grant. She initiated the process, organized the team, and oversaw the process of writing the grant. Once awarded, she has been instrumental in handling logistics, including attendance at numerous required visitations, training sessions, and required conferences, as well as the financial details. One of the things that attracted her to the TfP project was its focus on lasting institutional change, and this remains one of her goals going forward with the grant.

Kim Granger received the MOMATYC Teaching Excellence Award at the MOMATYC Conference in April.  The MOMATYC Teaching Excellence Award is given every year to an outstanding college mathematics instructor in Missouri. While at St. Louis CC (STLCC), Kim has served the campus and college in many roles, including department chair, campus coordinator of the Center for Teaching and Learning, General Education campus coordinator and chair of the campus Senate. In addition, Kim has been a campus and college leader in many several initiatives, including Achieving the Dream and Math Pathways. In addition to her work at STLCC, Kim served on the MOMATYC board for six years is the chair of the AMATYC Developmental Mathematics ANet. Kim was responsible for the STLCC proposal for the TfP project and is the Principle Investigator for the team at STLCC as part of the Phase 2 colleges selected last summer.  Kim has done a fantastic job of leading the work of the STLCC IMPACT team, as she has a strong vision for the work of the team and has leveraged her excellent rapport with faculty and administration to collaboratively make the project a success.