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Congratulations to Michelle Tindall (Michigan Modeler and Oakland University Instructor) and Bill Thornburgh (Executive Officer of AMTA) for conducting a workshop at the Association of Science [...]

Dear colleagues, The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara is holding its annual Teachers’ Conference on March 26. The topic is Neutrinos and New Physics. It is a full-day, [...]

As we prepare for the upcoming school year, we must face the possibility that another period of distance learning might become necessary.  If you are teaching Physics Mechanics and plan on using [...]

Exciting news in astronomy and for the theory of general relativity! Did you read about the recent discovery where astronomers were able to observe light being emitted from the back side of a [...]

Want to help make a difference while you shop in the Amazon app, at no extra cost to you? Simply follow the instructions below to select “American Modeling Teachers Association” as [...]

The Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program is a yearlong professional learning opportunity and short-term exchange for elementary, middle, and high school educators from the United [...]

Join the ASU Physics Department IDEA (inclusion, diversity, and equity alliance) team on Wednesday, November 18 at 7:30pm (ET).  This talk will address why diversity is important and how an [...]

If you’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Hestenes, the ‘father’ of Modeling Instruction, here is a great video that may be of interest to you.  The interview is from [...]

AMTA has once again earned a top-rated nonprofit badge from greatnonprofits.org and we’d like to thank our supporters.   According to a study by Software Advice, the GreatNonprofits [...]

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded on Wednesday to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on the development of Crispr-Cas9, a method for genome editing. Read [...]