The 2020 PhysTEC Conference will be held February 29th & March 1st in Denver, Colorado.

The program includes time for networking (both structured and unstructured) and several types of sessions and workshops. A tentative list follows, with a schedule grid is farther below. They will be updated when the schedule is finalized.

Plenary sessions:

• Advice from the trenches: A panel of physics teachers discusses how they were (or were not) prepared by their teacher education programs.
• Advocacy for physics teacher preparation
• PhysTEC Awards Ceremony: The Teacher of the Year and The 5+ Club

Workshops and panels:

• New resources for Getting the Facts Out about STEM teaching professions
• Working with and recruiting from Community Colleges
• Cultivating an inclusive culture in the physics department through a Learning Assistant program
• How to start a regional PhysTEC network in your state
• How to get and run an NSF Noyce Scholarship grant
• STEP UP: Supporting Teachers to Encourage the Pursuit of Undergraduate Physics for Women
• How teacher communities or advisory groups can strengthen your teacher preparation program
• Department Action Teams for improving climate, motivation, or capacity for teacher preparation
• The Underrepresentation Curriculum Project
• Using the PTEPA Rubric to guide program improvement
• Share-a-thon focused on recruitment ideas
• Training teachers to use the research-based PEER curriculum for high school physics
• Periscope: Lessons for training LAs and TAs
• Building relationships between a physics department and a school of education
• Program sustainability: building institutional commitment for teacher education

Post-conference extended workshop: How to build and strengthen a Learning Assistant program that can feed your teacher preparation program

• Between the 2020 PhysTEC Conference and the 2020 APS March Meeting, the LA Alliance will host a nuts-and-bolts workshop about running a Learning Assistant program.
• The workshop is free for anyone registered for the PhysTEC Conference or the APS March Meeting.