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Workshops

We have two courses permanently available.  Participants can join at any time.  Participants may earn up to 30 hours of professional development credit in each course.  The fee for one course is $599, and if a participant registers for both courses within any 12-month period, the second course is only an additional $300.  Participants who must pay "out of pocket" without being reimbursed by their employer will be offered discounts after registering.  Also, those who have participated in previous WPP courses (either virtual or in-person) will also be offered discounts.  These courses are meant to be permanent, so once a given participant has access to a course, that access will persist for many years into the forseeable future, even after the participant has earned credit and a certificate for the course.

The courses being offered are:

• Semester 1 (course begins on June 1, 2026) - Aligns with AP Physics 1, AP Physics C:Mechanics, OnRamps Physics 1, regular, honors, and pre-AP high school physics, and any other high school or early college conceptual, algebra-based, or calculus-based course that studies motion, force, energy, momentum, rotation, oscillations, and fluids.

• Semester 2 - (course begins on September 1, 2026) Aligns with AP Physics 2, AP Physics C:Electricity and Magnetism, OnRamps Physics 2, regular, honors, and pre-AP high school physics, and any other high school or early college conceptual, algebra-based, or calculus-based course that studies thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, waves, optics, and atomic and nuclear physics.

Note:  No WPP course, seminar, workshop, or institute is not endorsed by College Board, Educational Testing Service, OnRamps, The University of Texas, the National Math and Science Initiative, International Baccalaureate or any other organization named on this website.

Course Structure:  Both courses have a similar structure.

• Modules consist of notes sets and instructional pieces, activities and labs, and performance-based assessments.

• Each module is worth a number of points, where 10 points is considered one clock hour.

• Earning 300 points triggers a 30-hour certificate being sent to the participant.  Participants can request a lesser certificate before completing 300 points.

• There are thousands of points worth of content in each course.  Participants treat each course as a buffet and partake of what they like.  Points are earned by submitting evidence of engaging in the instructional piece (some pieces earn additional points if evidence is submitted of using the instructional piece with students).

• The courses are meant to be permanent, persisting for many years in the future.  Participants will have permanent access even after earning a certificate.

• Ideally, as I create new instructional pieces, they will be added to the courses over time.

Note:  No WPP course, seminar, workshop, or institute is not endorsed by College Board, Educational Testing Service, OnRamps, The University of Texas, the National Math and Science Initiative, International Baccalaureate or any other organization named on this website.

EXTRAS:  Participants get goodies for participating!

• While supplies last, each participant will be sent a box of physics SWAG (stuff we all get), that can be used with labs and activities with students.  (Note: we have yet to successfully send such a box to recipients outside the United States.)

• Each participant will also be given a special vectors activity that is personalized to their school.

• Participants will also get full edit and download access to John Frensley's lesson slides for AP Physics 1, and also slides for the other AP Courses as they are created, and direct download access to slide templates and animated GIFs that are used in the lesson slides.

Note:  No WPP course, seminar, workshop, or institute is not endorsed by College Board, Educational Testing Service, OnRamps, The University of Texas, the National Math and Science Initiative, International Baccalaureate or any other organization named on this website.

These workshops are facilitated by John Frensley.  John Frensley's qualifications include:

• Teaching high school physics, AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2 (and the old AP Physics B), AP Physics C:Mechanics, and AP Physics C:Electricity and Magnetism since 2005.

• Teaching at Title I high schools and helping economically disadvantaged students be successful at physics.

• Presenting weekend, evening, and week-long professional developments since 2013.

• Presenting on behalf of the College Board, the National Math and Science Initiative, Applied Practice, Arkansas AIMS, A-Plus Alabama, and Mass-Insight.

• Participating in the AP Physics reading since 2016, including in leadership roles.

• Writing items for the AP Physics exams and for AP Classroom.

• Writing about half of the scenarios in the AP Physics 1 Student Workbook

• Wrote all 140 "Sample Instructional Activities" in the four AP Physics CED documents (the ones effective Fall 2019)

• Writing the AP Edition of the Cutnell & Johnson Physics text for John Wiley and Sons Publishing

• Formulating physics representations and pedagogical structures you may already be familiar with, including:

  • The ABCD acronym for scientific argumentation

  • The SQuARED acronym for writing experimental procedures

  • Newton's Third Law Four-Squares

  • The Energy Transfer Cross

  • Momentum and Impulse Square Charts

John is excited to work with teachers to help them improve, and also to learn neat things from them.  John's primary goals for his session this summer are:

• To help participant teachers become more effective in the classroom

• To help participant teachers become more efficient in carrying out their instruction

• To help participant teachers become more marketable as they advance in their careers.

Note:  No WPP course, seminar, workshop, or institute is not endorsed by College Board, Educational Testing Service, OnRamps, The University of Texas, the National Math and Science Initiative, International Baccalaureate or any other organization named on this website.