Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy
Michigan State University, 2008
Master's Degree
MED in Secondary Education
Texas State University, 2002
Bachelor's Degree
BA in Mathematics, and Classical Language
Agnes Scott College, 1999
Featured grants
- Czocher, Jennifer Ann, White, Alexander (Supporting), Strickland, Sharon K (Supporting). CAREER: Scaffolding Strategies for Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling Skills, NSF, Federal, $954500. (Submitted: July 2017, Funded: September 2018 - August 2024). Grant.
- Melhuish, Kathleen Mary (Principal), Heaton, Ruth (Co-Principal), Thanheiser, Eva (Co-Principal), Strickland, Sharon K (Co-Principal), Sorto, Maria Alejandra (Co-Principal), Ellis, Brittney Marie (Co-Principal). Using Technology to Capture Classroom Interactions: The Design, Validation, and Dissemination of a Formative Assessment of Instruction Tool for Diverse K-8 Mathematics Classrooms, NSF, Federal, $1984657. (Submitted: November 2, 2017, Funded: September 4, 2018 - August 31, 2023). Grant.
- Strickland, Sharon K (Principal). MAA Tensor Women in Mathematics, $6000. (Funded: February 2010). Grant.
- Patterson, Cody Lynn (Principal), Melhuish, Kathleen Mary (Co-Principal), Strickland, Sharon K (Co-Principal), Ellis, Brittney Marie (Co-Principal). MAA OPEN Math, Mathematical Association of America, Institutional (Higher Ed), $12000. (Submitted: October 2024, Funded: May 2025 - December 2025). Grant.
- Close, Eleanor W (Principal), Strickland, Sharon K (Co-Principal), Luxford, Cynthia J (Co-Principal), Van Overschelde, James P (Co-Principal), Collins, Kristina Henry (Co-Principal), Close, Hunter G (Supporting). Preparing Engaged STEM Teachers through Multi-level Peer Mentoring and Early Teaching Experiences, National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, Federal, $1200000. (Submitted: August 31, 2022, Funded: June 15, 2023 - June 14, 2028). Grant.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- Melhuish, K. M., Strickland, S. K., Han, S., & Sorto, M. A. (2024). Why Ask Why? An Analysis of Teachers’ Why-Questions in Elementary and Middle Grade Mathematics Classrooms. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.
- Milewski, A., & Strickland, S. K. (2020). Building on the work of teachers: Adding a functional lens to a teacher-generated framework for describing the instructional practices of responding. Linguistics & Education, 57(June 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2020.100816
- Milewski, A., & Strickland, S. K. (2016). (Toward) Developing a common language for describing instructional practices of responding: A teacher-generated framework. Mathematics Teacher Educator.
- Warshauer, H. K., Strickland, S., Namakshi, N., Hickman, L., Bhattacharyya, S., Bartell, T., … Dominguez, H. (2015). Development of Preservice Teacher Noticing in a Content Course. In Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 972–975). East Lansing, MI, USA: Michigan State University.
- Warshauer, M. L., McCabe, T., Sorto, M. A., Strickland, S., Warshauer, H. K., & White, A. (2010). Equity. In M. Saul, S. Assouline, & L. J. Sheffield (Eds.), The Peak in the Middle: Developing mathematically gifted students in the middle grades (pp. 155–170). San Marcos, United States: NCTM.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Mathematics. 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Awards (Teaching), College of Science & Engineering. 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Mathematics. 2018
- Award / Honor Nominee: College of Science & Engineering Nominee to the Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence. 2016
- Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Mathematics. 2015

Featured service activities
- Reviewer / Referee
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
- Graduate Advisor
Doctoral
- Member
Graduate Program Committee
- Reviewer / Referee
Mathematics Teacher Educator
- Reviewer / Referee
Journal of STEM Education
- Reviewer / Referee
Journal for Mathematics Teacher Education
