  To meet National Standards recommended by the National Research Council for
high school physics, inservice teachers must be integrated into the physics
community. They must be empowered by access to resources of the physics
community and by sustained support for their professional development. To that
end, university and college physics departments must assume an essential role
in establishing and maintaining the necessary local infrastructure.
Nevertheless, this can be done within their current systems at negligible cost
by forming partnerships with local alliances of inservice teachers. Practical
details have been worked out, and working partnerships have been established in
several localities. This effort should be extended to a national infrastructure
for reform of physics teaching in community colleges as well as in high
schools. Most teachers are eager to participate in teaching reform.
