Excellence in Physics Education Award: Graduate Programs for Professional Development of Physics Teachers

The landscape for high school physics is changing rapidly, especially with the need to merge physics into a coherent STEM curriculum that smoothly integrates it with chemistry and biology. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for graduate professional development programs to help in-service teachers cope with these changes. One such program was created in 2001 by the physics department at \textit{Arizona State University} after a decade of NSF funding for the \textit{Modeling Instruction Program}. We discuss what has been learned from that experience with recommendations for creating similar programs at other universities.