Governing Board Roles & Responsibilities


Position Eligibility Requirements Key Responsibilities Term
President
  • AACT member
  • Current or former K–12 teacher of chemistry
  • Leads strategic planning efforts
  • Represents AACT at events
  • Facilitates board meetings and teleconferences
  • Serves as an ex-officio member of the Nominating & Awards committee
  • Liaises with AACT Program Director to develop meeting agendas
  • Updates AACT members on board activities
  • Writes at least three updates for AACT members on Governing Board activities through the school year
  • Submits an annual report to the ACS Board of Directors
Three-year term, as part of presidential succession
President-Elect
  • AACT member
  • Current or former K–12 teacher of chemistry
  • Leads internal planning efforts
  • Learns responsibilities of President
  • Leads working groups as needed
  • Liaises with AACT Program Director to develop meeting agendas
  • Leads AACT regional representatives
  • Attends at least one local or regional conference to promote AACT
Three-year term, as part of presidential succession

Immediate Past-President

  • AACT member
  • Current or former K–12 teacher of chemistry
  • Leads external collaboration efforts
  • Approves appointments to AACT committees
  • Leads working groups as needed
  • Attends at least 3 events or conferences to spread the word about AACT
  • Serves as liaison to ChemEdX
Three-year term, as part of presidential succession
Committee Representative
  • AACT member
  • Represents all AACT committees
  • Transmits work and priorities of committees to AACT Governing Board
  • Recruits committee chairs
  • Nominates committee members
  • Monitors committee work, and recommends formation of new committees as needed
Two-year term
Elementary School Ambassador
  • AACT member
  • Practicing K–5 teacher of chemistry
  • Represents the viewpoint of teachers of chemistry at the elementary school level
  • Works with the Editor of Chemistry Solutions to contribute one article during his/her term
  • Contributes two classroom resources to the AACT resource library during his/her term
One-year term

Middle School Ambassador

  • AACT member
  • Practicing 6–8 teacher of chemistry.
  • Represents the viewpoint of teachers of chemistry at the middle school level
  • Works with the Editor of Chemistry Solutions to contribute one article during his/her term
  • Contributes two classroom resources to the AACT resource library during his/her term
One-year term

High School Ambassador

  • AACT member
  • Practicing 9–12 teacher of chemistry.
  • Represents the viewpoint of teachers of chemistry at the high school level
  • Works with the Editor of Chemistry Solutions to contribute one article during his/her term
  • Contributes two classroom resources to the AACT resource library during his/her term
One-year term

ACS SOCED Representative

n/a
  • Acts as a liaison to ACS Society Committee on Education (SOCED)
  • Provides perspective on chemistry education broadly
Coincides with committee appointment
ACS DivCHED Representative n/a
  • Acts as a liaison to ACS Division of Chemical Education (DivCHED)
  • Provides perspective on chemistry education broadly
Coincides with committee appointment

AACT Program Director

n/a
  • Works with the Governing Board to guide and administer AACT
  • Works with staff to organize meetings and schedule conference calls
  • Works with staff to implement strategy
Ex-officio

Chemistry Solutions Editor

  • AACT member
  • Current or former K12 teacher of chemistry.
  • Publishes Chemistry Solutions four times each school year
  • Provides perspective from contributing authors about experiences in the chemistry classroom
Ex-officio

Meet the current AACT Governing Board