Art History: New and Experienced Teachers

One-day workshop for new and experienced AP Art History teachers.

Biology: Experienced Teachers

This workshop will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Biology: New Teachers

This workshop will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Calculus AB: Experienced Teachers

During this training you will learn activities that organize the course content in order to develop students’ proficiencies in the skills identified by the curriculum framework.

Calculus AB: New Teachers

During this training you will learn activities that organize the course content in order to develop students’ proficiencies in the skills identified by the curriculum framework.

Calculus BC: Experienced Teachers

During this training you will learn activities that organize the course content in order to develop students’ proficiencies in the skills identified by the curriculum framework.

Calculus BC: New Teachers

During this training you will learn activities that organize the course content in order to develop students’ proficiencies in the skills identified by the curriculum framework.

Chemistry: Experienced Teachers

You will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Chemistry: New Teachers

You will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Computer Science A: Experienced Teachers

This workshop will expose you to a review of materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in your classroom.

Computer Science A: New Teachers

This workshop will expose you to a review of materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in your classroom.

Computer Science Principles: New and Experienced Teachers

One-day workshop for new and experienced Computer Science Principles teachers.

English Language: Experienced Teachers (1)

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

English Language: Experienced Teachers (2)

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

English Language: New Teachers (1)

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

English Language: New Teachers (2)

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

English Literature: Experienced Teachers (1)

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

English Literature: Experienced Teachers (2)

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

English Literature: New Teachers (1)

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

English Literature: New Teachers (2)

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Environmental Science: Experienced Teachers

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Environmental Science: New Teachers

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

French Language and Culture: Experienced Teachers

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

French Language and Culture: New Teachers

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

German Language and Culture: New and Experienced Teachers

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Government & Politics:Comparative: Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Government & Politics:Comparative: New

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Human Geography: Experienced

This workshop will review course materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Human Geography: New

This workshop will review course materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Italian Language and Culture: New and Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Japanese Language and Culture: New and Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on specific pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Latin: New and Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Macroeconomics: New and Experienced Teachers

This workshop for new and experienced teachers will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Microeconomics: New and Experienced Teachers

This workshop for new and experienced teachers will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Organizing Your AP Exam Administration: A Workshop for Coordinators: Experienced (1)

This workshop is just for Coordinators, and provides you with the tools to effectively and successfully coordinate your schools’ AP program and exams.

Organizing Your AP Exam Administration: A Workshop for Coordinators: Experienced (2)

This workshop is just for Coordinators, and provides you with the tools to effectively and successfully coordinate your schools’ AP program and exams.

Organizing Your AP Exam Administration: A Workshop for Coordinators: Experienced (3)

This workshop is just for Coordinators, and provides you with the tools to effectively and successfully coordinate your schools’ AP program and exams.

Organizing Your AP Exam Administration: A Workshop for Coordinators: New (1)

This workshop is just for Coordinators, and provides you with the tools to effectively and successfully coordinate your schools’ AP program and exams.

Organizing Your AP Exam Administration: A Workshop for Coordinators: New (2)

This workshop is just for Coordinators, and provides you with the tools to effectively and successfully coordinate your schools’ AP program and exams.

Organizing Your AP Exam Administration: A Workshop for Coordinators: New (3)

This workshop is just for Coordinators, and provides you with the tools to effectively and successfully coordinate your schools’ AP program and exams.

Physics 1: Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Physics 1: New

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Physics 2: New and Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Psychology: Experienced

This workshop for new and experienced teachers will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Psychology: New

This workshop for new and experienced teachers will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Quantitative Skills for Biology

This workshop will provide AP Biology teachers with an understanding of quantitative skills and how to incorporate them into the classroom.

Spanish Language and Culture: Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Spanish Language and Culture: New

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Studio Art: Experienced

This workshop provides you with some of the best tools and techniques for helping students acquire the skills needed to excel in AP Studio Art.

Studio Art: New

This workshop provides you with some of the best tools and techniques for helping students acquire the skills needed to excel in AP Studio Art.

United States History: Experienced

This workshop for new and experienced teachers reviews course materials focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

United States History: New

This workshop for new and experienced teachers reviews course materials focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

World History: Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

World History: New

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Activities for the Anthropocene

Discover activities and online resources exploring aspects of the Anthropocene including human population growth, climate change, and ecosystem health.

American Responses: Understanding Refugee Crises in the Holocaust and Today

Participants in this session will learn about the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Americans and the Holocaust Initiative and how it can be used in AP U.S. History.

AP Access and Equity for All in Turnaround Schools

Explore how AP contributes to student growth and improvement in turnaround schools and begin plans for increasing access for all with personalized learning.

AP Funding Under ESSA: 2017 in Review, and What It Means for 2018

Our focus is on strategies to expand student and school access, particularly among underrepresented student and school segments.

AP Human Geography Lesson Plans: Korea's Population Decline and Voting Patterns

This session connects content and lesson plans on Korea with AP Human Geography curriculum, focusing on population decline and voting patterns.

AP Studio Art: 2-D Design—How to Sequence an Awesome Class

This session is about teaching students to become responsible, talented, creative, and methodical designers through the sequence of their projects.

Boost Math Discourse and Productive Struggle with SpringBoard Strategies

This session explores integrating SpringBoard strategies for productive learning and considers the perspectives of coaches, specialists, program supervisors.

Building a District Culture that Supports College Readiness

This session will focus on Round Rock Independent School District's successful college and career readiness strategies.

Creating a Culture of High Academic Achievement

Use Advanced Placement to create a culture of high achievement benefiting all students. Increase student enrollment, diversity, and college readiness.

Creating an Engaging AP Art History Class

This session will provide new AP Art History teachers with ideas to create engaging classes with their students from bell to bell, August to May.

DIY AP Physics

Bring physics content to life for your students! We will focus on using DIY projects to increase student interest.

Energizing World Language Curricula with Authentic Materials

Participants in this session will examine various types of authentic materials that can engage students in AP world language and culture courses.

Five Essential Keys for AP Spanish Literature and Culture

Elevate performance by developing the essential aspects of the course and employing effective assessment strategies for the required literary works.

Flipped Learning: Making Advanced Science Classes More Accessible to Girls

Flipping chemistry courses correlated with an increased AP Chemistry enrollment at an all-girls school. Come learn how and why it worked.

Freshman Transition Activities to Increase AP Participation

This session examines freshman transition activities that promote access to AP and Pre-AP courses for all students.

Interactive Notebooks - CANCELED

Learn how to implement an interactive notebook, print or digital, in your classroom.

L'Hopital's Rule in the AP Calculus AB Curriculum

The session is designed to make AP Calculus AB teachers comfortable using and teaching L’Hopital’s Rule.

Managing the 3 Ps: Perfection, Practice Testing, and Parents

This session will offer strategies for dealing with the often crippling effects of the “3 Ps” of AP: perfection, practice testing, and parents.

No Class Is an Island

This session is focused on integrating AP teaching strategies throughout an AP program within a school in order to benefit student progress.

Project-Based Learning for AP World Language and Culture Courses

This session focuses on project-based learning in AP world language and culture courses, including best practices and implementation resources.

Results from the 2017 AP Computer Science Principles Exam

This session will examine the results of the 2017 AP Computer Science Principles Exam. Student solutions will be analyzed and common errors will be identified.

Results from the 2017 AP English Language and Composition Exam

This session presents data and feedback from the 2017 AP English Language and Composition Exam.

Results from the 2017 AP English Literature and Composition Exam

In this session, the chief reader for the AP English Literature and Composition Exam will provide statistical results related to the 2017 examination.

Results from the 2017 AP European History Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2017 AP European History Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2017 AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics Exams

Participants will review the results from the 2017 AP Exams in macroeconomics and microeconomics and learn about student performance on the free-response questions.

Results from the 2017 AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2017 AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2017 AP U.S. History Exam

The session will provide an overview of exam performance and the scoring of questions from the 2017 AP U.S. History Exam.

SAT Subject Tests for STEM: Exploring Opportunities for Minority Applicants

The session describes the benefits of majoring in STEM for minority applicants and how SAT Subject Tests can assist in the admission process.

Sentence Sense: Beyond Right and Wrong

This presentation will show how students can gain a more complex understanding of syntax in the texts they read and the writing they compose.

Setting the Stage: From Performance to Proficiency in Language and Culture Courses

Participants will take away instructional and assessment strategies targeting the presentational mode of communication.

Social-Emotional Learning and Effective Writing Through Memoir

Teach students how to write their very own memoirs, developing not just an awareness of craft but also self-awareness.

STATS4STEM: RStudio Statistical Computing Environment

Participants will learn to use STATS4STEM, a free and powerful statistical learning environment for AP Statistics.

Teaching Literal Translation Skills in the AP Latin Classroom

Learn ways to improve students’ comprehension of Latin syllabus passages and their ability to render literal translations of those texts.

The AP Holistic Approach: One Phone Call at a Time

Do you want to make your AP program holistic, where AP is a fluent language in the homes of your students?

The Poem as a “Journey”: Using Poetic Shifts to Develop Complex Analysis

Participants will learn how to use Billy Collins’ idea of the poem as a “journey” to evoke sophisticated and complex analysis from their students.

Thinking It Ain’t Saying It: Commentary in Textual Analysis

Looking closely at student essays, participants will gain a better understanding of effective commentary for analysis—where students often fall short.

Topics and Concepts to Emphasize in Pre-AP Math Courses

Participants will learn the topics and concepts that should be emphasized in algebra, geometry, and precalculus courses to best prepare students for AP Calculus.

Upcoming Developments and Changes in the AP Program and Open Q&A

Join Trevor Packer for information about recent developments and changes under way to support high-quality teaching and learning experiences in AP.

Using Current Events in AP World History - CANCELED

A two-page article every day can help AP World History students enhance their thesis development and identification of evidence skills.

Using Dance to Teach Asymmetrical Meters in AP Music Theory

This session introduces AP Music Theory teachers to dance activities from multiple cultures for an understanding of asymmetrical meters through movement.

Using Geogebra and Advanced Graphing in AP Calculus

This session will revolve around several Geogebra constructions that are useful in teaching core Calculus concepts.

Using Phylogenetic Trees to Test Evolutionary Hypotheses

Participants will build and interpret phylogenetic trees and use them to test hypotheses in order to explore concepts and patterns in evolution.

“Best Day Ever!” AP Psychology Lessons That Promote Deep Learning

Lesson strategies with meaningful applications for AP Psychology that will have both students and teachers leaving class thinking, “Best day ever!”

21st Century Learning: The Flipped Classroom

Participants in this session will learn to record and upload their lectures for their students to watch at home so that class time can be devoted to academic discourse.

Access to the Present: Using Contemporary Pulitzer Plays in AP English

This session presents a framework for incorporating contemporary Pulitzer Prize-winning plays into your AP English curriculum.

ACE It! A Writing Strategy for Short-Answer Questions

The session will describe how the ACE approach helps students develop concise and substantiated responses to short-answer questions on the AP Exams in history and social science.

AP Coordinators in Command

AP Coordinators unite! Take command with these proven best practices and transform preadministration, seating charts, exam session timing, and security.

Assessing Student Writing: The Demise of the Teacher/Editor

How does a blend of analytic and holistic scoring, student self-reflection, and goal setting affect teacher feedback and student engagement?

Best Practices in Gifted Education for AP Calculus

This workshop highlights differentiated instruction techniques and strategies utilized in an AP Calculus class. Activities are easily adaptable.

Building an AP Program: 5 Years of Lessons Learned

Create a strategic AP plan to improve your program and increase access and equity for all students.

Cultivating #FUTUREADY Students

Session highlights multi-faceted approaches to outcomes—academic achievement, (non)cognitive development, participation in and college completion.

Demonstrate the Way to Deeper Understandings in AP Psychology

This session deals with using classroom demonstrations to deepen understandings of complex AP Psychology concepts.

Down to the Skeleton: Structural Subtlety in Reading and Writing

This session offers reading and writing strategies to help students understand the purpose and value of idea-driven relationships in analysis and argument.

Engaging Students with Historical Arguments

This session explores ways of engaging students in historical argumentation using structured academic controversy, Google circles, and metaphorical maps.

Equity and Access for Student Success

Session identifies and shares instructional strategies that address equity and access issues by incorporating the diversity of students’ experiences.

Expanding Student Writing: From Formulaic to Authentic

This session offers evidence-based instructional strategies to support students in essay writing for the AP Exam.

Explaining Big Ideas: Teaching Supreme Court Cases in AP U.S. Government and Politics

This session presents best practices for increasing student understanding of major concepts in AP U.S. Government and Politics using Supreme Court decisions.

First Steps Toward Standards-Based Grading in Pre-AP Math

Participants will consider the merits of using standards-based grading and will plan first steps in implementing the strategy in their class.

Gnashing Out Nash

This session will present strategies for helping students gain a more complete understanding of Nash equilibria and other game theoretic concepts.

I Read It Somewhere, So It Must Be True: Critical Reading in AP

This session will focus on the strategies that students can use to make them able to comprehend and analyze a text critically.

Implementing Standards-Based Grading in AP Courses

With standards-based grading philosophy, teachers need effective strategies to meet both the AP curriculum and the grading practices of standards-based grading.

Increasing Poetic Literacy with U.S. Poet Laureates

Learn how to increase students’ interest and literacy in poetry by reading the past decade’s United States Poet Laureates.

Inspiring Interpretive Instruction

Participants will learn how to present and assess both the listening and reading aspects of the interpretive mode via authentic resources in language instruction.

Interactive Data Visualization and Hands-On Activities for AP Human Geography

Discover interactive, online data visualizations and hands-on activities to explore key AP Human Geography subjects including population, land use, environment, and health.

Kinetics Labs: A Catalyst for Learning

The lab is an excellent catalyst for enhancing learning in chemical kinetics. Data analysis will result in conceptual understanding of reaction rate.

Making Connections Between AP and the SAT Suite of Assessments

Learn how the skills assessed on the SAT align with skills taught in AP classes such as AP U.S. History, AP Psychology, AP Biology, and AP world language and culture courses.

Preparing Heritage Learners for Success in AP Spanish

This session is about designing a heritage learner program for high school that meets students' diverse needs and prepares them for AP.

Results from the 2017 AP Capstone Research Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2017 AP Research assessment with the AP Research chief reader.

Results from the 2017 AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam

Through discussion of the 2017 AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam results, attendees learn instructional strategies that lead to AP success.

Results from the 2017 AP Comparative Government and Politics Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2017 AP Comparative Government and Politics Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2017 AP Environmental Science Exam

Participants examine the results of the 2017 AP Environmental Science Exam.

Results from the 2017 AP Japanese Language and Culture Exam

This session features results from the 2017 AP Japanese Language and Culture Exam. Participants will consider the implications for instruction.

Results from the 2017 AP Statistics Exam

In this session, participants will examine the free-response questions from the 2017 AP Statistics Exam, presented by the chief reader.

Scaffolding Advanced Placement: If You Build It, They Will Come

This session will explore an elective inquiry and research course to prepare freshmen and sophomores in high school for the rigor of AP coursework.

Scaffolding Presentational Writing Across the World Language Curriculum

This session will present strategies for success on the persuasive essay through scaffolded and staged writing activities at every level of a literacy-based world language curriculum.

Target Text Analysis with Bull's-Eye Strategies

We will discuss the need to instill within students the ability to read and analyze text with less and less support from the teacher or students.

Teachers + Industry Volunteers = Awesome Computer Science Classes

Only 25% of schools teach computer science despite ever-growing demand. Learn how TEALS partners teachers with engineers to team teach AP Computer Science courses.

The Long Essay Question in Practice

This session will examine one of the long essay questions on the 2017 AP European History Exam.

The Role of Investigation and Research in the Studio Art Portfolios

How do we guide students to investigate their own ideas in art making? How is art-making itself the research that focuses an investigation?

The Socratic Method for Enhanced Discussions

The Socratic method combines higher order thinking skills with vibrant conversations to enhance learning using both primary and secondary resources.

U and Us in Calculus

Our session will show how underrepresented students can succeed in AP Calculus with a climate of success, common rubrics, and course alignment.

Using AP Exam Analytics to Inform and Improve Instruction in AP Courses

Teachers and education leaders will use their AP results to facilitate a dialogue and actions related to continuous improvement.

Using Primary Literature to Teach Data Literacy

Enhance your students' data literacy skills including analyzing figures and data, developing evidence-based claims, and constructing explanations.

Using Re-Wired Vanity Lights to Teach Complex Circuits Through Modeling

Participants will learn how to wire complex circuit vanity lights and use them as phenomena to engage students in modeling-based investigations.

"I Can Now Categorically State ..."—Art Attributions and Comparisons

AP Art History requires competence with attributions and comparisons. We will examine the skills needed to increase student confidence and success.

A History of Science in Developing U.S. Environmental Policy

The session focuses on how science and monitoring have influenced the development of U.S. environmental policy and regulation over the last 50 years.

A Thematic Approach for AP Italian: Personal and Public Identities

This session focuses on personal and public identities as a theme for AP Italian Language and Culture. Participants will discuss resources, materials, and assessments related to this theme.

AP English and AP Statistics: Making Arguments Using Data

Making an argument using data requires skills common to both AP English and AP Statistics.

AP Heroes: Learning From the AP Districts of the Year

This discussion draws insights from educators from the AP Districts of the Year, who will share their best practices with the AP community.

AP Mentoring: An Approach to Peer-to-Peer Learning

AP Mentoring, a new teacher-to-teacher support program for teachers of all experience levels, is a terrific opportunity for professional development.

AP Psychology Activities to Teach Concepts Effectively

This session offers engaging activities and demonstrations that promote critical thinking and deepen mastery of key concepts in AP Psychology.

AP Student Performance and TIMSS Advanced

This session presents a report on AP student performance in TIMSS Advanced compared to non-AP students domestically and internationally.

AP U.S. History and Honors English Cohort

Equity and access is the goal for 9th grade AP U.S. History and Honors English cohort mirrored by our school's demographics.

Beyond the Form Letter: Writing Impactful College Recommendation Letters

Learn how to write effective letters of recommendation for all students and return ready to coach your campus with time-saving tools.

Boot Camp: Skill Building Activities that Prepare Students for AP

AP boot camp is an interactive skill-building program that helps students prepare for success in AP classes through experiential learning activities.

Building a College-Going Culture for First-Generation Students

Mater Academy students and leaders will present strategies for building a college-going culture through rigor, relevance, and relationships.

Building an AP Program in a Low-Income Area

Learn how to energize a “movement” around your class or program that includes a village of support and dedicated students.

Building an AP World History Professional Learning Team - CANCELED

This presentation will use the professional learning team model to analyze the AP World History Exam.

Conquering Rhetorical Analysis and Question 2

This session presents strategies to help all involved better understand rhetorical analysis tasks, especially on exam day.

Create a Meaningful Blended Learning Environment Using 1-to-1 Technology

Develop a plan for implementing a blended classroom model by examining the transition of Park Hill High School to one-to-one student technology.

El Dualismo de Frida: Using Images to Motivate Discussion of Literature

This session presents an AP Spanish Literature and Culture lesson that connects the art of Frida Khalo with readings from the required list.

Engaging Students Through Collaboration in AP Research

This session will show how students, through activities like gallery walks and elevator speeches, can work collaboratively in AP Research.

Escape the Lecture: Online Modules and Federal Open Market Committee Simulation

Explore free online learning modules for macroeconomics and microeconomics and experience a Federal Open Market Committee simulation where students play the role of central banker.

Expanding Your AP Program

Identify systemic barriers that prevent or deter nontraditional AP students from accessing the very best curricula your school offers.

Historical Thinking Skills Through Rubrics

Discover a structured way to measure your students' progress on the AP U.S. History historical thinking skills with ready-to-use leveled rubrics.

Integrating Primary Sources in AP U.S. Government and Politics

Participants will examine strategies that facilitate student analysis of primary sources throughout the AP U.S. Government and Politics curriculum.

Less Teaching, More Feedback: Using Sample Essays to Improve Student Writing

This session will explore the use of sample essays to help students improve their writing through effective feedback.

Life Vests and Ladders: AP Interventions for Equity and Access

Attendees will see how equity and access can be achieved at any school through the use of targeted interventions and supports.

Literary Detection: A Problem-Based Approach to Literary Analysis

Participants will assume the roles of literary detectives to engage in analysis as a means of establishing authorship of texts.

Lyrics and Language

This session is about mixing AP English Language and Composition instruction with lyrics from popular songs.

Multiple Choices—Preparing Students for the Interpretive Mode

Texts, graphs, reports, and interviews? Don’t let yourself be overwhelmed by the multiple-choice section of the exam—plan and assess for success.

Non-Objective Art and the AP Studio Art: 2-D Design Portfolio

In this session we'll explore non-representational image making techniques to help students pursue their visual art creativity.

Object Oriented Mini-Labs for AP Computer Science

Teachers will be presented with a collection of labs to help students learn concepts of object-oriented programming in an engaging way.

Partnerships to Enhance Historical Thinking Skills for AP U.S. History

Participants in this session will assess learning units centered on community institutions, including the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate.

Practical Suggestions to Improve Your AP Program

Participants will walk away with practical ideas and strategies to significantly improve their Advanced Placement program.

Probability: Why Is It So Hard?

Explore where and why students get confused in their study of probability and learn strategies to help them understand.

Progressing the Novice World Language Learner Up the Proficiency Scale

We will review strategies and engage in activities that help students at novice and intermediate levels build the essential skills for the AP world language and culture courses.

Ranking Tasks for Student Success in AP Physics

Learn how to use ranking tasks for student success. This session outlines the successful use of ranking tasks to better understand a student's reasoning.

Results from the 2017 AP Calculus Exams

The chief reader leads a discussion about the 2017 Calculus AB and BC Exams.

Results from the 2017 AP Chemistry Exam

The results of the AP Chemistry Exam will be shared, followed by a discussion of strategies for teaching the most challenging topics effectively.

Results from the 2017 AP French Language and Culture Exam

This session will feature results and insights from the 2017 French Language and Culture Exam.

Results from the 2017 AP Music Theory Exam

The chief reader of AP Music Theory will present the results of the 2017 exam.

Results from the 2017 AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam

This session presents results from the 2017 AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam, including score distributions and student performance by section.

Six Tried-and-True Methods for Teaching the Novel

This session will present six different methods for teaching a variety of novels that have proven successful with senior AP English Literature and Composition students.

SpringBoard to AP: Building a Culture of Success Grounded in Pre-AP Skills

Experience the power of SpringBoard with proven results in preparing students for success in AP and discover unique methods to support a strong AP program.

Statecraft Simulation in AP Comparative Government and Politics

This session will present information on how to use the Statecraft online simulation to teach certain concepts in AP Comparative Government and Politics.

Teaching Inference Skills

By learning how to use annotation to teach inference, participants will create a unit plan to teach inference using a scaffolding strategy.

The AP Biology Course and Exam: An Open Forum

The AP Biology Development Committee Co-Chair and Chief Reader will share strategies, offer advice and answer questions about the course and exam.

The Future of Pre-AP

Join this informational session hosted by College Board staff about the upcoming changes in Pre-AP.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and AP Human Geography

This session examines the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and ways teachers can integrate sustainability within AP Human Geography.

Ways of Seeing: Continuity, Change, and Inferring Significance from Images

This session will recreate an AP European History project that examines images of prostitution, violence, and drinking from across the centuries.

World Language and Culture Presentational Speaking Preparation

This session will help teachers prepare their AP world language and culture students for the presentational speaking component of the AP Exam.

A Plan for Inclusion: Success for "Nontraditional" AP Students

Participants will examine a model that fosters rigor for “nontraditional” AP students and design a plan for inclusion to implement in their schools.

Access for All ... No, Seriously! A Systemic Approach to AP Success

Participants will examine systems, from the cabinet to the classroom, that remove barriers inhibiting students from true access to the college dream.

Active Learning in AP Psychology

This session offers AP Psychology teachers unique activities and projects that will engage their students in the classroom and at home.

After Expanding Access: Retention Strategies that Work

Learn practical and flexible methods that work to close achievement gaps and retain at-risk students in accelerated environments.

Analyzing Audiovisual Arguments in AP Seminar

An interactive session exploring analytical tools to evaluate audiovisual arguments as an aid to student research in AP Seminar.

AP English Literature and Composition: A Poem Every Day

This session will describe the incredible benefits and practical applications of including a poem in class every day.

AP Studio Art: Everything You Need to Know from A to Z!

Ever wonder how students receive 5s on their AP Studio Art portfolios? It’s all about the intro courses—come check it out!

Article Analysis Reports: Increase Analytical Thinking in AP Human Geography

The session will focus on implementation of a AP Human Geography assignment that will improve free-response question performance by combining analytical thinking and writing.

Classroom to Classworld: Creating Authentic Connections in AP English

Give students the opportunity for authentic and meaningful real-world connections. I'll share successes with expanding students' methods of writing.

Collaborative Dialogue and Oral Examinations: Peer Mediation for AP Students

This session will guide participants through the process of collaborating through zone of proximal development and scaffolding with AP questions.

Conquering AP Biology with OpenStax: Beyond the Textbook

Teachers are introduced to OpenStax instructional strategies and assessment items developed for AP Biology that align to the curriculum framework.

Critiquing Critical Reading: Developing Metacognition in Students

This session shows how students can approach intimidating texts while strengthening their writing skills.

Formative Assessments in AP Classes in the Sciences

Participants in this session will be introduced to formative assessment techniques used in AP classes in the sciences and will design units that include the ideas presented.

Have AP Experience, Will Travel: Opportunities to Teach Abroad

Ever thought about living overseas? The international school market is expanding and AP teachers are in demand. Learn how to land a position abroad.

How to Ramp Up a Computer Science Program with Blended Learning

Join us to learn how to build a comprehensive and accessible computer science program with blended learning tools.

Implementation of Standards-Based Assessment in AP Economics

A presentation on challenges and successes in the transition to and implementation of standards-based assessment in AP Economics.

Language Education for the 21st Century: The American Academy's New Report

In this session, attendees will learn of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission's call for greatly expanded K-16 instruction in heritage and critical-need languages in the US.

Lessons from Singapore: Access to AP Calculus Starts Before High School

This session is about a high school principal and a math teacher teaming up to create a summer class to provide more students access to AP Calculus later in high school.

Lines and Trigonometry and Bisectors, Oh My

Participants will deconstruct problems that infuse algebra and trigonometry into geometry. Participants will plan, design, and sequence such problems.

Making Connections Between AP English Language and Composition and AP U.S. History

This session offers tools and techniques for making interdisciplinary connections between AP English Language and Composition and AP U.S. History.

Marxism and the Transformation of European Urban Centers

This session explores the contextual realities faced by the urban working class of the late eighteenth and early twentieth century.

Narrowing the Opportunity Gap: Preparing Students for Higher Education

Narrowing the opportunity gap for low-income students and students of color requires more than just access to courses.

New Culture, New Heights: Removing Barriers to Increase AP Enrollment

Participants will learn how to develop a culture of change as a springboard for building a model AP program.

Preparing and Empowering Students: Resources and Supports for AP

During this session, we'll share exciting information about new resources and supports for AP teachers.

Results from the 2017 AP Latin Exam

The AP Latin chief reader will present data on student performance on the free-response section of this year's exam.

Results from the 2017 AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam

This session explores the 2017 exam results in order to inform instructors and to strategize for meaningful improvements to student performance.

Results from the 2017 AP World History Exam

The chief reader will present findings on challenging areas of the AP World History Exam based on the first data generated for the redesigned course assessments.

Reviving Vocabulary: Using Vocabulary Instruction to Develop Analysis

Teachers will learn approaches to move students from seeing vocabulary as forgettable word lists to using vocabulary as a springboard for analysis.

Scientific Reasoning Through Writing

Explore how to engage Pre-AP biology students in writing that cultivates conceptual understanding. Strategies, rubrics, and resources will be shared.

Spoken Interpersonal Communication for AP World Language and Culture Courses

This session will present successful strategies for teaching spoken interpersonal communication in AP world language and culture courses.

Strategies for “Speed Data-ing”

“Speed Data-ing” strategies use data and assessment to provide engagement and differentiation for all students in Advanced Placement courses.

Teaching Synthesis Through Social Justice

Participants will develop strategies for teaching synthesis using a crime, justice, and incarceration unit as a model.

Teaching with Multiple Representations in AP Chemistry

This session will focus on strategies for integrating multiple representations into all types of AP Chemistry learning activities and assessments.

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election in AP U.S. Government and Politics

This session will consider aspects of the 2016 U.S. presidential election in the context of the AP U.S. Government and Politics classroom, including nominations, polling, demographics, and debates.

The Toulmin Model of Argumentation

Participants will solve a murder mystery using warrants, analyze a visual argument using the Toulmin model, and apply the model to a free-response question.

Using Plain Language to Teach Calculus

This session focuses on verbal representations, and startling insights that result from using language with care and precision.

Alas, Poor Yorick: Wit, Humor, and Humanity in AP English

Participants will examine the role of humor and wit in teaching advanced literary analysis skills in an interactive and collaborative session.

All 4s and 5s: Our Students Did It, and Yours Can Too

This session provides teachers and administrators with the tools to create meaningful classroom and program changes for student success.

America in the World: Framing Global Education in AP U.S. History

Participants in this session will become familiar with resources, instructional practices, and lessons which synthesize AP U.S. History and global education.

Amplifying Analysis: Encouraging Insight While Limiting Summary

Combating students’ tendency to summarize, this session will focus on how to engage writers in constructing a detail-driven analysis.

Analysis and Interpretation in Pre-AP Arts Classrooms

Participants will gain an understanding of key skills and habits for facilitating the analysis and interpretation of artistic examples with students.

AP and CLEP: Similarities and Differences

CLEP and AP both provide opportunities to earn college credit, but the programs have many differences in content, logistics, and student demographics.

AP For All: Accurately Casting a Wide Net - CANCELED

Learn how one school identified and shared the skills necessary for success with students and teachers, encouraging more success throughout the school.

AP Scores Are Here: What to Do Now?

Participants will learn different strategies to look at AP Scores in order to examine instruction, create an action plan, and improve student learning.

AP Spanish and the Pathway to College Graduation for Latino Students

University and high school administrators will examine how AP Spanish positively impacts 4- and 6-year graduation rates.

AP Spanish Literature "The Board Game"

Learn, practice, and use all the key concepts from the AP Spanish Literature and Culture course by playing this fun, free, and open-licensed game.

Ars Scribendi: Writing Multiple-Choice Questions

Gain practical experience in writing effective multiple-choice questions that will prepare students for the AP Latin Exam.

Building Successful Reading Curriculum for AP Chinese

This session presents research-based instructional strategies for building successful reading curriculum for AP Chinese.

Catalyst for Success: Increasing AP Courses and Changing School Culture

This session examines how to build an AP program using change theory and data to shift stakeholder attitudes about AP courses.

Deepening Understanding of Religion and Secularism: Critical Theory Method

Learn a method for understanding religion and secularism through content in AP European History that can also be used in other history courses.

Entering the Conversation: Role Playing the AP Language Synthesis Essay

Using role-play strategies to scaffold and differentiate the skills on the synthesis essay, we address the needs of an increasingly diverse AP program.

If Only a Little Bit More: Complexity in AP English Literature

Participants explore innovative strategies to help their students analyze complexity in literary texts.

Instilling Self Confidence and Love of Authentic Learning in Overachievers

Learn the science behind perfectionism and come away with strategies to help both students and parents climb off the pedestal of perfection.

Introduction to Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)

Explore the benefits of using POGIL activities in your STEM classroom—a student-centered approach to learning that focuses on process skills.

Large K Misconceptions

This session will include an inquiry lab that enables students to overcome misconceptions of large K reactions.

Learning a Language Through Images

This session is about using the interpretation of visual documents to elicit interpersonal spoken and written responses in language courses.

Lend Us Your Ears: Using Speeches in Pre-AP and AP English

Ranging from the speeches of Old Major to President Johnson, participants will learn a series of strategies to teach rhetorical analysis and writing.

More Bang for your Buck—Integrated Performance Assessments in AP German

Learn to reduce planning and prep time, increase student performance, and prepare for the AP German Language and Culture Exam with integrated performance assessments.

Next Generation Digital Assessments

This session will explore how SpringBoard Digital uses assessment as a learning tool.

Oh the Paperwork!: Score History Essays Faster and More Accurately

Explore a method that will help you score more essays easier and in less time and provide your students with (almost) immediate feedback.

Preparing and Empowering Students: Resources and Supports for AP

During this session, we'll share exciting information about new resources and supports for AP teachers.

Preparing Students for the AP Calculus Exam

This session will equip AP Calculus teachers to design end-of-year review activities to ensure student success on the AP Exam.

Redesigned AP U.S. Government and Politics—What Do I Need to Change?

Participants will learn how to adapt instruction with College Board support for the new AP U.S. Government and Politics course beginning 2018.

Resources for Inquiry and Argumentation in AP Environmental Science

This session introduces AP Environmental Science teachers to free resources from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that can be used for dynamic classroom activities.

Results from the 2017 AP Art History Exam

Participants meet with the AP Art History chief reader and receive information about student performance on the 2017 AP Art History Exam.

Results from the 2017 AP Calculus Exams

The chief reader leads a discussion about the 2017 Calculus AB and BC Exams.

Results from the 2017 AP Computer Science A Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2017 AP Computer Science A Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2017 AP Human Geography Exam

This session will examine the results of the 2017 AP Human Geography Exam with an emphasis on free-response questions.

Results from the 2017 AP Physics Exams

The AP Physics chief reader will present results from the 2017 AP Reading.

Results from the 2017 AP Psychology Exam

A discussion of the results of the 2017 AP Psychology Exam and how to prepare students for future exams.

Results from the 2017 AP Seminar Exam and Performance Tasks

The session will review the results of the 2017 AP Seminar performance tasks and end-of-course exam.

Teaching Methodologies by Adapting AP Strategies in Pre-AP Math

The teaching methodologies of concepts will be addressed and discussed in different content areas of Pre-AP Math.

The Acceleration of the Great Migration in 1916-17

This session details an AP U.S. History project that has students use primary sources to learn about the Great Migration.

The Forgotten Inference: Chi-Squared Tests and Regression Analysis

Chi-Squared tests and regression inference are often rushed over as the last topics in an AP Statistics course. This session will thoroughly explore these two procedures.

The Future of Pre-AP

Join this informational session hosted by College Board staff about the upcoming changes in Pre-AP.

To Hell in a Handout

Explore the evolution and cultural implications of Hell from Homer to Dante to 2017.

Trends, Updates, and Resources in AP World Language and Culture Courses

Come for updates on trends and developments in AP world language and culture courses and exams. Discover how to find and use resources on AP Central.

Using ELISA Assays to Teach Immunology in AP Biology

Participants will conduct an ELISA as a part of a disease-outbreak simulation, and learn how to connect an ELISA to real-world topics.

Using FRED to Enhance an AP Macroeconomics Class

Participants will learn a way to implement a user friendly technology platform, FRED, to enhance the core content of AP Macroeconomics using real data.

Utilizing Data and the Master Schedule to Improve AP Enrollment

This session will present the in-depth process that has been used to improve AP enrollment by over 100% at Crown Point High School.

A Day, Week, Year in AP Latin

This session will present strategies and projects for organizing your AP Latin course and engaging students.

Actually, You Can Do This! Teaching Perseverance in AP

For many students AP courses are unbearably intimidating. Teachers need practical strategies to reduce the fear and encourage students to succeed.

Advanced Placement and Comprehensive Dual Enrollment

In this session, learn how to create a program for students to earn an associate degree by the time they graduate from high school.

AP+PLTW: Get Students Ready for STEM Degrees and Careers

Learn from teachers how to successfully combine AP and PLTW courses to impact student learning. Review results from year one of implementation.

Creating and Growing an AP Program in a Small Rural High School

This session will examine the unique problems that small rural high schools face in establishing a successful AP program.

Cross-Curricular STEM Projects for AP

To effectively teach in a STEM environment, cross-curricular activities have to exist and be embedded across grade levels and curriculum strands.

Culinary Approaches to Teaching Global Interactions

This interactive presentation will investigate avenues for teaching global interactions through the medium of food.

Deepening Content Knowledge of Medieval Spanish Literature and Culture

This session engages participants in contextualizing literary and artistic production within the fascinating cultures of the Iberian Middle Ages.

Demo Friday: Demonstrations in AP Chemistry

Demo Friday is a classroom activity that pushes students to use the science practices to explain, justify, and connect many of the concepts in AP Chemistry.

Developing a Clear Line of Reasoning in an Argument

Participants will learn how to teach students to combine examples and a clear line of reasoning to create evidence in an argument.

Encourage Better Thinking and Writing with Daily Poetry Responses

Learn how to use low-risk poetry responses as daily openers, which students say encourages critical thought and risk-taking in their writing.

Enhancing Common Skill Sets in Studio Art and Art History

Learn to integrate a model of critique that fosters discussion and improves student understanding and skills in studio art and art history classes.

Enhancing the AP Experience for All Students

Bergenfield High School offers open enrollment for AP and uses the SpringBoard program to prepare all students for AP, college, and beyond.

Envisioning the AP Student of the Future and the Common Good

Join our stellar panel in examining the role of service and service learning in today’s high school and college classrooms.

Giving Secondary Sources Primary Importance in Redesigned History Courses

This session examines instructional practices that engage students in historiographical questioning and literacy practices to develop reading and writing skills.

How to Dig Deeper into Personality Psychology

Focusing on the evolution of the personality perspective and digging deeper into the material, the session will address earlier concepts of personality (pre-1960) to postmodern perspectives.

Implementing SpringBoard ELA in High School

Learn how one school district took SpringBoard ELA from simply an adopted set of materials to an active and sustainable learning community.

Increasing Access, Maintaining Rigor

Explore methods for aligning action with vision to increase access to AP courses while maintaining academic rigor.

Inspiring Students with Culture in AP World Language and Culture Courses

Come experience strategies to use culture as a vehicle to stimulate, inspire, and improve student motivation and linguistic proficiency.

LCD eWriters in the AP Economics Classroom

Participants in this session will use eWriters during interactive classroom applications and leave with ideas to improve economic learning and skills.

Let's Run the Numbers!

Examine three project-based assessments that require students to create their own digital graphs to analyze and interpret data in AP Comparative Government and Politics.

Mathematical Practices in Pre-AP Math

How can you include the Mathematical Practices for AP Calculus in your algebra classes? See how contextual tasks provide opportunities for deep and meaningful mathematics.

Pre-AP Social Science Strategies

This session illustrates the instructional activities to improve the AP readiness of middle school and early high school social science students.

Problem-Based Learning in AP English

Teachers will be trained in the basics and benefits of problem-based learning as a student-centered approach to instruction in the AP Language and Composition classroom.

Results from the 2017 AP Biology Exam

Participants examine the results of the 2017 AP Biology Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2017 AP English Language and Composition Exam

This session presents data and feedback from the 2017 AP English Language and Composition Exam.

Results from the 2017 AP English Literature and Composition Exam

In this session, the chief reader for the AP English Literature and Composition Exam will provide statistical results related to the 2017 examination.

Results from the 2017 AP German Language and Culture Exam

This session features results and insights from the 2017 AP German Language and Culture Exam. Participants will develop strategies for preparing students for success in AP German.

Results from the 2017 AP Italian Language and Culture Exam

This session presents the results of the 2017 AP Italian Language and Culture Exam, including student performance on the four free-response questions.

Results from the 2017 AP Studio Art Portfolio Evaluation

Use information about students' successes with this year's portfolio evaluation to support your students' learning in AP Studio Art.

Results from the 2017 AP U.S. History Exam

The session will provide an overview of exam performance and the scoring of questions from the 2017 AP U.S. History Exam.

Simulation, or Stimulation? Engaging Classroom Activities for AP Statistics

In this session we'll explore several exciting simulation activities that enhance student learning of statistical ideas.

Strategies to Improve Performance on AP World Language and Culture Exams

This session presents strategies to guide students to success on the speaking and writing portions of the AP Exams in world language and culture.

Student Voices: Best Practices in World Language and Culture Classrooms

What can teachers learn from recent AP students about best practices in AP World Language and Culture classrooms?

Synced for Success: Teaching AP with Technology

By blending traditional and digital learning strategies, teachers can help all Advanced Placement students thrive in the classroom and beyond.

Teaching AP Calculus in a 1-to-1 Environment

Is your school moving to a 1 to 1 device environment? Learn how to incorporate instructional technology to increase student learning in AP Calculus.

Teaching Campaign Finance in AP U.S. Government and Politics

Teaching campaign finance is complicated. Participants in this session will learn about and evaluate a variety of strategies for teaching campaign finance.

Teaching Cycles of Immigration and Nativism in US History, 1850s-2010s

Insights and materials for teaching five eras of immigration, and helping students master skills of periodization, contextualization, and synthesis.

Teaching Melodic Harmonization in AP Music Theory

Participants will examine logical techniques for completing the AP Music Theory melodic harmonization question, free-response question #7, yielding musical results.

Teaching Modern Physics in AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based

Participants in this session will develop instructional and assessment strategies for difficult topics in modern physics.

Teaching Students to Ask Better Questions

This session provides strategies for improving student skill in asking strong research questions that they can answer with evidence-based arguments.

The Power of the Pen: Foundations for Writing in Pre-AP

Help students strengthen their writing by sharing foundational understandings of the power of voice through words, sentences, and paragraphs.

The Power of Two: Dual-Role AP Coordinators

Since most schools only have one AP coordinator, we will share how two AP coordinators can lead to successful programmatic decision making.

Upcoming Developments and Changes in the AP Program and Open Q&A

Join Trevor Packer for information about recent developments and changes under way to support high-quality teaching and learning experiences in AP.

Using Desmos to Supplement the Calculus Curriculum

Participants will learn how to use Desmos, a free and powerful web application, to enhance their instruction in AP Calculus.

Using Literacy Strategies in AP Computer Science Principles

This session explores reading and writing strategies to help students in AP Computer Science Principles meet course learning objectives and prepare for performance tasks.

Using Print and Audio News Sources in AP Spanish

This session will focus on using print and audio news sources to facilitate language acquisition and improve communicative skills in AP Spanish.

A Mad Fermentation: Critical Conversations about Race, Gender, and Politics

Race, gender, and politics generate superb arguments, but discussions can get heated. We’ll explore successful ways to conduct political discussions.

A Model for the AP Spanish Art–Text Comparison Question

This session offers an approach to the art–text comparison question on the AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam.

AP Capstone: Let's Get Hitched!

Is AP Capstone new in your school or coming soon? Let us help marry together and promote this program for future AP Seminar and AP Research students.

AP Music Theory Essentials

Learn engaging strategies focused on developing skills and practices that are essential for success in AP Music Theory.

AP Potential: Power, Possibilities, and Performance

Experience AP Potential as it builds upon the goal of increasing student access and enters the realm of instructional decisions and performance.

Coaching Without Content: Using IPR Data to Ask Effective Questions

This session will show administrators and coaches how to drill into Instructional Planning Reports (IPRs) to discover specific questions, start conversations, and shape instruction.

Coalition Classroom Connections: AP Teachers and College Awareness

The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success has a platform that offers AP teachers a simple way to collaborate with students while supporting their college objectives.

Creative Drama: A Teaching Tool for Every Learner and Every Course

Learn new and exciting teaching techniques using creative dramatics, a tool to help students to retain more content.

Demystifying Syntax: A Toolbox for Teachers

This workshop for secondary teachers will provide strategies to help students analyze rhetorical style by understanding how writers manipulate syntax.

Effective Use of Writing in AP Statistics

Participants will take away strategies to use formal writing as a part of the AP Statistics course, from paragraph analyses to a cumulative project.

Energize your AP English Course with Elective-Based Curriculum

Wrap literature in sensationalist packages in a theme-based approach to AP English Literature and Composition. Teachers teach to their passions, and students follow theirs.

Engaging Students with Algorithms

This session will look at algorithms commonly taught in most introductory computer science courses and explore strategies for teaching them.

Everyone Votes: Understanding Participation in Authoritarian Regimes

Using examples from core countries, teachers will analyze how people participate in authoritarian regimes and why these regimes allow participation.

Factor Markets: Collaborative and Kinesthetic Approaches to Microeconomics

This session is focused on increasing the understanding of factor markets for diverse learners through active formative assessment techniques.

Generating Good Text-Dependent Questions

This session will model ways to develop and scaffold effective text-dependent questioning leading to deep engagement and understanding of the text.

Hitting the Historiography: Resources for Teaching About Early America

Participants will examine key historiographic works in early American history and consider how they can be utilized in instruction and assessment.

Increasing Modeling (AP Science Practice 1) in the Pre-AP Sciences

Explore how to infuse more modeling (AP Science Practice 1) into your Pre-AP science course. Modeling tasks, rubrics, and resources will be shared.

Instructional Shifts in Pre-AP English

We will model proven methods to prepare students for AP English by shifting from superficial reading to fully engaged reading.

Involving Students in Writing Assessment

Struggling to find time to provide quality feedback to students? Learn how to get results and lessen the paper load without shirking responsibility.

Learning Strategies, Not Learning Styles: Cognitive Psychology for Teachers

Explore the most effective evidence-based strategies for all students, supported by current research from cognitive psychology.

Making Time to Teach: Curate and Organize Content for AP Art History

Save time and avoid information overload with these tips and tools for curating, organizing, and reusing content for AP Art History.

Math and Modeling Together at Last!

Learn to teach quantitative skills, use models for instruction, and provide authentic data analysis experiences for students.

Open Access to Primary Sources: Digital History is Just a Click Away!

See how easy it is for teachers and students to engage with history by accessing free graphics-rich, web-based primary and secondary sources.

Open Enrollment: Equity and Access in Action

An open enrollment AP program is a key component of ensuring equity and access for all students, as evidenced by data tracking a 10-year period.

Primer on the SAT Suite of Assessments for AP Teachers

Join College Board experts to make connections between the key features of the SAT Suite of Assessments and the work done in classrooms every day.

Putting Creativity Back in the AP Classroom - CANCELED

The session emphasizes the importance of creativity in AP classes, especially world language and culture courses, and how it can improve learning outcomes.

Repurposing Free-Response Questions from Past AP Chemistry Exams

This session will show teachers how to use free-response questions from past AP Exams to design formative and summative assessments.

Resources of Inspiration: Beyond Textbooks with Online Primary Resources

The session provides instructors with strategies for choosing and using online primary source collections for classroom instruction.

Rethinking Sequences and Series - CANCELED

Learn how to teach sequences and series inside-out so that students understand the importance of this topic.

Static and Dynamic Fluids in AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based

Participants will develop instructional and assessment strategies for teaching about fluids in AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based.

Strategies for Success on AP Spanish Free-Response Questions

Learn powerful strategies and secrets to help your students succeed on the interpersonal and presentational portions of the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam.

Surfing Through Pre-AP to AP: Keys to Deepening Conceptual Knowledge

This session will prepare participants to transition away from surface-level learning and move into deep-conception learning at the highest cognitive level.

TEDx Event as a Culminating Project for AP English

Put your students front and center as speakers at your own TEDx event as a culmination of a semester-long inquiry-based research project.

The Virtual AP English Classroom

An English teacher examines a variety of digital tools to amplify both the Pre-AP and AP English curriculum.

Using Choice-Based Art Education to Develop an AP Portfolio

This session seeks to demonstrate how choice-based art education can develop stronger portfolios and create opportunities for meaningful art making.

Using Film in AP U.S. History and AP U.S. Government and Politics - CANCELED

Learn how to integrate film into your AP U.S. History and AP U.S. Government and Politics lessons as a way to enhance major ideas and themes.

Working with Electricity in AP Environmental Science

This session will demonstrate methods of generating electricity using physical and virtual models and then use the results to inform calculations.

World Language Teaching Strategies

This session is geared towards attendees interested in learning strategies that encourage writing, speaking, and reading in AP world language and culture courses.

Pre-AP Instructional Strategies - Fostering Equity and Access

In this half-day workshop, you and other local and district-based school leaders will learn concrete strategies for expanding access to AP programs and advanced course work to underrepresented students.

A Day with an AP Biology Reader

For new and experienced AP Biology teachers, this workshop provides a behind-the-scenes look at the AP Reading.

A Day with an AP Calculus Reader

In this workshop you will learn about the mechanics of the scoring process, the roles of the various contributors, and the steps to ensure consistent grading

A Day with an AP English Language and Composition Reader

In this workshop for new and experienced AP English Language and Composition teachers, you will get a behind-the-scenes look at the AP Reading.

AP Biology: Transitioning to Inquiry Based Labs

In this workshop, you will focus on understanding inquiry and its place in the classroom.

AP Chemistry: Transitioning to Inquiry-Based Labs

In this workshop, you will focus on inquiry and its place in the classroom, and learn how to confidently create inquiry-based labs

AP Chinese Language and Culture: New and Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

AP Strategies: Strategies for Success in AP Mathematics

Attendees will learn how to help their students develop academic vocabulary, understand difficult text through close reading, and provide meaningful answers to difficult and complex questions.

AP Strategies: Strategies for Success in AP Sciences

Attendees will learn how to help their students develop academic vocabulary, understand difficult text through close reading, and provide meaningful answers to difficult and complex questions.

AP Strategies: Using Data to Design Instruction

This workshop will help you use AP® Exam score data to plan effective instruction.

Building an AP Program: A Workshop for Administrators - Experienced

The workshop reviews the benefits of the AP Program for schools, and goes on to explore how administrators can support their AP teachers and students.

Building an AP Program: A Workshop for Administrators - New (1)

The workshop reviews the benefits of the AP Program for schools, and goes on to explore how administrators can support their AP teachers and students.

Building an AP Program: A Workshop for Administrators - New (2)

The workshop reviews the benefits of the AP Program for schools, and goes on to explore how administrators can support their AP teachers and students.

Computer Science Principles

During this training you will explore the computational thinking practices and the components of the curriculum framework of the course.

European History: Experienced

This workshop for new and experienced teachers will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

European History: New

This workshop for new and experienced teachers will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Government & Politics: U.S. - Experienced

This workshop for new and experienced teachers will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Government & Politics: U.S. - New

This workshop for new and experienced teachers will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Interpersonal Communication in Pre-AP World Languages and Cultures

In this workshop for middle and high school teachers, you will gain concrete strategies for developing the skills and knowledge students need at the Pre-AP® level in a target language.

Music Theory: New and Experienced

This workshop provides you with some of the best tools and techniques for helping students acquire the skills needed to excel in AP Music Theory.

Physics 1 and 2: Building Students' Reasoning Skills - New and Experienced

This workshop will introduce you to strategies you can use to engage students in deeper conceptual understanding of foundational physics principles.

Physics C: New and Experienced

In this workshop for new and experienced teachers, you will review materials that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Pre-AP Strategies in History and the Social Sciences

This interactive workshop presents middle and high school teachers with strategies to improve students’ historical thinking skills, specifically interpretation and analysis.

Pre-AP: Effective Thinking Strategies for All Students

This workshop explores the benefits of using cross-curricular strategies to meet the needs of a diverse population of students.

Pre-AP: Interdisciplinary Strategies for English and the Social Sciences

In this workshop, you will learn research-based strategies for strengthening students’ reading comprehension and writing skills in English and the social sciences course work.

Pre-AP: Interdisciplinary Strategies — Argumentation and the Writing Process

In this workshop for middle and high school social studies, English, and humanities teachers, you will learn how to help your students develop a logical and effective argument.

Pre-AP: Strategies in History and the Social Sciences - Crafting Historical Arguments

For middle and high school teachers, this workshop presents strategies for improving students’ writing skills in history and the social sciences.

Pre-AP: Strategies in Mathematics – Analyzing and Describing Data

This workshop will provide materials and experiences to support mathematics and science teachers in teaching the central elements of statistical analysis.

Pre-AP: Strategies in Science -Inquiry-Based Labs

This workshop for middle and high school teachers will explain the differences between traditional and inquiry-based labs.

Pre-AP: Topics for Vertical Teams in Studio Art

This workshop gives you the tools to build and/or strengthen an AP Vertical Team and to align a curriculum vertically across grades within the studio art discipline.

Quantitative Skills for Biology

This workshop will provide AP Biology teachers with an understanding of quantitative skills and how to incorporate them into the classroom

Spanish Literature and Culture: New and Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Statistics: Experienced

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Statistics: New

Attendees will review materials and resources that focus on pedagogical techniques and content-specific strategies that you can use in the classroom.

Teaching Controversial Issues: Inspiring Discussion in AP US History Classrooms

This workshop will share the most up-to-date research on discussing controversial issues with adolescents in a classroom setting.