Jack Hehn

Jack G. Hehn has a wide range of experience in physics and science education having taught and worked with students in elementary school through graduate school. In 1992, Hehn joined the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) as the Associate Executive Officer. His responsibilities included creating an information technology base for the core business of AAPT, developing an array of World Wide Web based electronic member and publishing services, and working with AAPT educational programs and liaison programs with other societies. Two of the projects involved the creation of a high school textbook, Active Physics, and a college physical science course for pre-service teachers, Powerful Ideas in Physical Science. He was also active in the effort to create national science standards and in the development of a large-scale networking project for two-year colleges, TYC21. While on leave from AAPT, Hehn served three years (1996-1999) as a program consultant and later program director with the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) for the National Science Foundation (NSF). At NSF he worked with the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program, counseled efforts involving two-year colleges, contributed to teacher preparation and project evaluation efforts, and worked with discipline-based physics proposals. In August of 1999, Hehn joined the American Institute of Physics as the Director of Education. He is a Co-Principal Investigator on the Physics Teachers Education Coalition (PhysTEC) a partnership of the American Physical Society (APS), AAPT and AIP; works with the “Earth Systems Revolution” effort; and is encouraging and supporting the development of a physics digital library for educational resources. He has been and continues to be active in proposing and directing large scale educational programs in collaboration with AIP Member Societies, including science policy review and commentary, curriculum development, and technology and multi-media program development.