James Lincoln2024 National Board of Directors Election Candidate for AAPT Secretary

James Lincoln

Current Position:
Workshop Director, SCAAPT's New Physics Teacher Workshop,
PO Box 11032, Newport Beach, CA, 92658,
james@physicsvideos.com

Education
2003 UCLA:  BS - Physics 
2005 UCLA: MEd - Social Justice 
2010 CSU, Long Beach: MS Applied Physics

Professional Experience:

  • Professor of Physics:  College of San Mateo (current), De Anza College (2021-2023), Irvine Valley College (2013-2018), CSU Long Beach (2006-2010), Santa Monica College (2022)
  • Workshop Director:  Southern California Advanced Physics Teaching Institute (www.SCAPTI.org)
  • Conference Director: PhysicsCon 2019-2024 ( www.PhysicsCon.org )
  • Science Video Production:  UCLA Physics Demos, The Physics Teacher, Arbor Scientific, The Big Bang Theory, Veritasium, AAPT Films

Honors and Recognitions:

  • President / Past-President of SCAAPT
  • 2012-2024, Director AAPT Films
  • Column Editor "Talking Physics" (HS Column of The Physics Teacher)
  • Director SCAAPT's New Physics Teacher Workshop 2010-present
  • Three-Time AP Exam Reader 2007, 2008, 2009
  • AAPT's Bauder Grant for Workshop Activities recipient "Southern California's AP Tune Up"

Memberships:

  • AAPT
  • SCAAPT
  • Southern California Physics Technicians Association

AAPT Activities:

  • Lead Consultant of Video Abstracts for The Physics Teacher
  • High School Shareathon
  • Workshop: Making good physics videos
  • Workshop: Experiments and demos with the RSPEC Explorer
  • 30 Demos in 60 minutes

Other Professional Activities:

  • Conference Director PhysicsCon.org
  • AP Workshop Director www.SCAPTI.org
  • Development of Curricular Materials and Outreach for the New AP Physics 1

Candidate Statement:

I am running for Secretary of the Board.  For quite some time I have come to understand that my peers, and my colleagues, are those motivated and talented physics educators who gather at AAPT Meetings and seek to raise up the level of physics teaching excellence nationwide. I am committed to the current strategic plan which is linked here: https://aapt.org/aboutaapt/2022-Strategic-Plan.cfm .  Of particular interest to me are our goals to "broaden participation at all levels...to support and encourage meaningful professional networks...[and to have AAPT be] vibrant, diverse, and empowered."  I have been culminating growth and improvement in my local section and I believe my skills, passion, and experience can benefit the physics teaching community at the national level.

I am happy to serve under the guidance of AAPT's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion linked here: https://www.aapt.org/Resources/policy/fostering_safe_inclusive_classrooms.cfm .  In fact, AAPT has been unwavering and ahead of most organizations in its assertive acclamation of the need for DEI awareness. Physics belongs to all of us. To make physics available to all people, physics educators must be committed to an inclusive approach that marginalizes no participants. Such an action is proactive, not reactive, and includes seeking out and accommodating and understanding the needs of a population as diverse as all the citizens of this country and others.

I am well-qualified to serve in this position. I have good organizational skills, a healthy network of colleagues and support in Southern California and at the National meetings, and a healthy disposition about AAPT. I have for over 10 years directed and organized our SCAAPT New Physics Teacher Workshops which have served more than 500 teachers. I have served as president of SCAAPT for over six years and again as past-president for as long. I am also approaching 10 years as a column editor for The Physics Teacher journal of AAPT. In this capacity I reach many thousands of teachers with my articles and those articles I referee. I believe in AAPT and all that we have accomplished and all that we can accomplish