| Position
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Eligibility Requirements
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Key Responsibilities
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Term
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President
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- AACT member
- Current or former K–12 teacher of chemistry
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- 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
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Three-year term, as part of presidential succession
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| President-Elect
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- AACT member
- Current or former K–12 teacher of chemistry
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- 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
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Three-year term, as part of presidential succession
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Immediate Past-President
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- AACT member
- Current or former K–12 teacher of chemistry
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- 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
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Three-year term, as part of presidential succession
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| Committee Representative
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- 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
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Two-year term
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Elementary School Ambassador
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- AACT member
- Practicing K–5 teacher of chemistry
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- 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
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One-year term
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Middle School Ambassador
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- AACT member
- Practicing 6–8 teacher of chemistry.
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- 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
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One-year term
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High School Ambassador
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- AACT member
- Practicing 9–12 teacher of chemistry.
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- 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
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One-year term
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ACS SOCED Representative
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n/a
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- Acts as a liaison to ACS Society Committee on Education (SOCED)
- Provides perspective on chemistry education broadly
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Coincides with committee appointment
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| ACS DivCHED Representative
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n/a
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- Acts as a liaison to ACS Division of Chemical Education (DivCHED)
- Provides perspective on chemistry education broadly
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Coincides with committee appointment
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AACT Program Director
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n/a
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- 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
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Ex-officio
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Chemistry Solutions Editor
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- AACT member
- Current or former K–12 teacher of chemistry.
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- Publishes Chemistry Solutions four times each school year
- Provides perspective from contributing authors about experiences in the chemistry classroom
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Ex-officio
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