AAPT Board Update

The American Association of Physics Teachers is participating in numerous projects that affect physics teaching at all levels. From teacher training to curriculum development to outreach programs for students and the general public, there is a tremendous involvement of the Board, staff and membership to conduct these activities. We are holding workshops at national meetings for grades 9-12 and two-year and four-year colleges. The plan is to extend this to outreach programs for grades 5-8 teachers. Our publications continue to be of high quality and of great use to physics educators around the world. Richard Price (MIT) has assumed the position of Editor of AJP, replacing David Jackson. Our challenge is to keep the journals' high quality, while generating appropriate revenue to keep them healthy. We plan to increase communication and exchanges with other worldwide physics education organizations. AAPT staff are updating our Web site to make the contents even more useful to the world of physics educators. We are continually adding material to COMPadre on the site, which has materials and information that are used by physics educators worldwide. I will outline some of the key projects in progress and some being proposed to affect physics education worldwide.