Johnson was recently promoted to Deputy County. RE:Think Innovation: How the Worlds Most Prolific Innovators Come Up with Great Ideas that Deliver Extraordinary Outcomes by Carla Johnson About the Book. And now, she is the first African American woman to hold the office of Deputy County Administrator for Orange County Government. The focus of the effort was to address the need for innovative, integrated, problem and project-based, high-quality curriculum for K-12 that would begin to address the prevalent issues within our educational system and provide teachers with a tool that would enable them to teach the Common Core (mathematics and English/language arts) along with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) while infusing the 21st Century Skills Framework in a real-world, meaningful way. An Orange County native, Carla Bell Johnson has been a public servant in the local community for more than 30 years. The STEM Road Map project started as an ambitious undertaking by 25 leaders in STEM education from the various STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as well as English/Language Arts and stakeholders from the realm of educational policy and reform.
As suggested in the Carnegie Foundation report (2009), the STEM Road Map provides a new curriculum design for delivering STEM learning more effectively across the continuum of K-12 schooling. The STEM Road Map project is a coordinated response to the need for addressing STEM learning in K-12 to better prepare our children for the careers of the future that are anchored in understanding of STEM.