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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 [...]

The National Academies Press recently released a pre-publication book titled, Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis, by Jennifer Self.  It contains information that may be helpful [...]

As teachers prepare for the coming school year, we must face the possibility that another period of distance learning might become necessary. If your students are accustomed to receiving [...]

AMTA would like to congratulate Melissa Girmscheid (AZ), who was selected as the 2nd place winner of the Air Force Association/Rolls Royce 2020 National Aerospace/STEM Teacher of the Year award. [...]

Congratulations to four members of AMTA for being recognized with the 2020 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Jeremy Secaur (OH) Kay Fincher (TX) Brad [...]

Congratulations to Mike Vargas, a long-time Modeler from Phoenix, Arizona! Read recent news releases congratulating Mike and announcing the 15 K-12 STEM teachers who were recognized with this [...]

The ACS fellows program began in 2009 as a way to recognize ACS members for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and ACS. The 2020 53 fellows were recently [...]