The 2020 PhysTEC Conference was held February 29th - March 1st in Denver, Colorado.

The program included time for networking (both structured and unstructured) and several types of sessions and workshops. The list of session follows, with a schedule grid farther below. 

See notes from 2020's sessions

Plenary sessions:

In Windows room:

• Advice from the trenches: A panel of physics teachers discusses how they were (or were not) prepared by their teacher education programs.
• Physics Teacher Preparation: Helping Not Hurting
• State of PhysTEC Address and PhysTEC Awards Ceremony

Workshops and panels:

 In Tower Court A:

• Building relationships between physics departments and schools of education
• Faculty Perceptions of the Teaching Profession: PTaP.HE categorization, interpretation, and setting a benchmark
• Best Practices in Recruiting Pre-Service High School Physics Teachers Through Community College Partnerships
• How to Start a Regional PhysTEC Network in Your State
• Lessons Learned in the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program: Winning and Servicing the Grant

In Tower Court B:

• New Resources for Getting the Facts Out about STEM Teaching Professions
• Program Sustainability: Building Institutional Commitment for Teacher Education
• "If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Improve It." Use and Interpretation of the PTEPA Rubric
• Periscope: Looking into Learning in Best-Practices Physics Classrooms
• Cultivating an Inclusive Culture in the Physics Department Through a Learning Assistant Program

In Tower Court C:

• The Underrepresentation Curriculum Project
• Supporting Teachers in their Instruction and in Meeting Longer-Term Professional Goals with the PEER Physics Suite
• Utilizing Teacher Communities to Strengthen Your Teacher Preparation PRogram
• STEP UP Ambassador Program Workshop
• Share-a-Thon: Get the Facts Out

Post-conference extended workshop: 

Essential Elements for Setting Up Your Learning Assistant Program

• After the 2020 PhysTEC Conference, LA Alliance faculty Valerie Otero, Laurie Langdon, Eleanor Close, and Brooke Evans hosted a nuts-and-bolts workshop about running a Learning Assistant program.
• The workshop was free for anyone registered for the PhysTEC Conference or the APS March Meeting.

Full Schedule: