Monthly Archives: July 2018

The data source for the graph below is the 2018-19 Critical Teacher Shortage Area report from FLDOE. In the Orlando Sentinel, Leslie Postal described what one district – Orange County – is doing to overcome the lack of production of math … Continue reading →

Maybe Rutherford High School physics and math teacher Rachel Morris has a different recollection of what happened on the first morning of the Nuclear Medicine and Science Camp for rising 9th graders at FSU’s Panama City Campus on Monday, but … Continue reading →

A new bachelor’s degree graduate from the FSU Department of Physics has made the difficult but noble decision to become a high school physics teacher.  She has a teaching job in a high-needs school waiting for her next month. To … Continue reading →

From Kathleen Haughney of FSU’s University Communications group: A team of Florida State University physicists will receive $1.7 million from the National Nuclear Security Administration over the next five years to help boost the nation’s nuclear science workforce. Physics Professors … Continue reading →

A few years ago, I was sitting in the office of my colleague and friend David Van Winkle, who was in charge of assigning our physics department’s graduate teaching assistants to courses. The studio physics courses that David and I … Continue reading →

Miami Today reported this week that Florida’s teacher shortage is being successfully addressed. My conversations during the last few months with administrators and department heads responsible for hiring high school teachers in math, chemistry and physics has given me an entirely … Continue reading →

Last year, Florida spent $70 million paying bonuses of about $7,000 each to more than 9,000 teachers in part because those teachers had earned scores in the 80th percentile or higher when they took either the ACT or SAT college … Continue reading →