About

The Phox Valley Physics and Physical Science Share Group has been meeting to promote physical science and physics teaching and to provide collegiality for teachers in the Fox Valley region of Wisconsin since 2001.

The Phox Valley Physics and Physical Science Share Group was initially set up to fill a void that was observed by the two original co-founders. The very successful Central Wisconsin Share Group based at Stevens Point Area Senior High School (SPASH) had been meeting for many years. There was no such group in existence in the Fox Valley to provide a very focused form of professional development for the teachers of physics and physical science in the Fox Valley. The Phox Valley Physics and Physical Science Share Group was patterned after the Central Wisconsin group.

The name ‘Phox’ is a play on words for ‘Physics’ and the ‘Fox Valley’ Region of Wisconsin. The region shown in the map is known as the Fox Valley because of the Fox River. It runs from Lake Winnebago north into the bay of Green Bay.

The Phox Valley Physics and Physical Science Share Group meets five times each academic year. The meetings are held the last Wednesday in September, then the first Wednesday of November, January, March and May. These are the months the Central Wisconsin Group was not meeting, so the motivated physics/physical science teacher could have attended a share meeting every month of the academic year!