The fact of the matter is that AAPT is a member society and good work is only going to happen through the efforts of the members. 5/5

This has happened in collaboration with our membership as well as with the hard work of the leadership which includes the high school community (formerly committee) chairs, myself, the current president-elect (a HS teacher) and with support of the entire board/office team 4/5

AAPTs current program manager has been working immensely hard to create opportunities for K12 educators within AAPT, both from a free PD side as well as funding opportunities and leadership tracks. 3/

Next, when OSTP continued to drag their heels at making an announcement about PAEMST, AAPT was one of a group of organizations who sent letters to the office advocating that the awardees be named. 2/

Hi, as the HS member at large to the board, let me clear up a few things for you. First of all, this lawsuit addresses canceled grants of which AAPT has stake. There are 3 that were canceled, the STEPUP program for high school, OPTYCS for 2 year colleges and SEAChange for Universities. 1/

new school!

Also in the workshop we did “thin slicing” which is where Ss are asked to do just a small piece at a time and we build…reduces the cognitive load. But the key component is the consolidation and note making at the end, and the consolidation is 100% teacher planned/executed even if the Ss are talking

Having been in a workshop with Liljidahl it’s not true that there’s no explicit instruction. It happens at the start of the lesson, you give them what they need (that’s a great place for your discretion) you leave it up on one of the boards for reference.

The big benefit to vertical is that Ss are more likely to discuss ideas between groups whereas when seated inertia takes over and discussions stay within the table group

Intuition is a GREAT starting place, but physics is only intuitive to those who’ve studied physics or to students who have been properly guided.

(Cross reference the phrase “and it’s obvious the answer is…”)

EndRant

You know what’s intuitive?
That heavier things should fall faster…b/c often they do
That a bug that goes splat on your windshield had a bigger force than your car…cause it’s dead
That the sun is yellow…cause that’s what my eyes and every children’s book ever says

But all of those are FALSE!

wow. I had a bit of a temperature read on what's going on there, but it was way off compared to this. How disheartening, makes it a shell of what it once was.