AP Art and Design for Experienced Teachers

AP Art and Design for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Art and Design for New Teachers

AP Art and Design for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Art History for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Art History for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Biology for Experienced Teachers

AP Biology for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Biology for New Teachers

AP Biology for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Calculus AB for Experienced Teachers

AP Calculus AB for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Calculus AB for New Teachers

AP Calculus AB for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Chemistry for Experienced Teachers

AP Chemistry for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Chemistry for New Teachers

AP Chemistry for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Comparative Government and Politics for Experienced Teachers

AP Comparative Government and Politics for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Comparative Government and Politics for New Teachers

AP Comparative Government and Politics for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Computer Science A for Experienced Teachers

AP Computer Science A for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Computer Science A for New Teachers

AP Computer Science A for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - All Regions

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - All Regions One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - International/Puerto Rico

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - International/Puerto Rico One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Midwest Region

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Midwest Region One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - New England/Middle States Region

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - New England/Middle States Region One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (1)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (1) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (2)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (2) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (3)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (3) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (4)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (4) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (5)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (5) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southwest Region (1)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southwest Region (1) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southwest Region (2)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southwest Region (2) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Western Region

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Western Region One Day Workshop

AP English Language and Composition for Experienced Teachers (1)

AP English Language and Composition for Experienced Teachers (1) One Day Workshop

AP English Language and Composition for Experienced Teachers (2)

AP English Language and Composition for Experienced Teachers (2) One Day Workshop

AP English Language and Composition for Experienced Teachers (3)

AP English Language and Composition for Experienced Teachers (3) One Day Workshop

AP English Language and Composition for New Teachers (1)

AP English Language and Composition for New Teachers (1) One Day Workshop

AP English Language and Composition for New Teachers (2)

AP English Language and Composition for New Teachers (2) One Day Workshop

AP English Literature and Composition for Experienced Teachers (1)

AP English Literature and Composition for Experienced Teachers (1) One Day Workshop

AP English Literature and Composition for Experienced Teachers (2)

AP English Literature and Composition for Experienced Teachers (2) One Day Workshop

AP English Literature and Composition for New Teachers

AP English Literature and Composition for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Environmental Science for Experienced Teachers

AP Environmental Science for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Environmental Science for New Teachers

AP Environmental Science for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP French Language and Culture for Experienced Teachers

AP French Language and Culture for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP French Language and Culture for New Teachers

AP French Language and Culture for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Human Geography for Experienced Teachers

AP Human Geography for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Human Geography for New Teachers

AP Human Geography for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Italian Language and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Italian Language and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Japanese Language and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Japanese Language and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Latin for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Latin for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Macroeconomics for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Macroeconomics for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Physics 1 for Experienced Teachers

AP Physics 1 for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Physics 1 for New Teachers

AP Physics 1 for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Physics 2 for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Physics 2 for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Psychology for Experienced Teachers

AP Psychology for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Psychology for New Teachers

AP Psychology for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Spanish Language and Culture for Experienced Teachers

AP Spanish Language and Culture for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Spanish Language and Culture for New Teachers

AP Spanish Language and Culture for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP U.S. History for Experienced Teachers (1)

AP U.S. History for Experienced Teachers (1) One Day Workshop

AP U.S. History for Experienced Teachers (2)

AP U.S. History for Experienced Teachers (2) One Day Workshop

AP U.S. History for New Teachers

AP U.S. History for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP World History: Modern for Experienced Teachers

AP World History: Modern for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP World History: Modern for New Teachers

AP World History: Modern for New Teachers One Day Workshop

A Call for Diversity in AP: Become an AP Reader or Endorsed Consultant

Learn how you can contribute to the broader AP community by becoming an AP reader or consultant.

A Comprehensive Overview of the 2018 Released AP Latin Exam

Take a deeper look into the released 2018 AP Latin Exam to learn how the exam can help prepare students for success in both the course and the exam.

Advanced Placement Economics—17 Interactive Graphing Modules

In this session, participants will receive a collection of interactive activities that encourage students to draw graphs in competitive games.

Analytical Reading and Evidence-Based Writing in Pre-AP Sciences

Explore how to build conceptual understanding and AP readiness by using AP free-response questions to engage Pre-AP science students in analytical reading and writing.

AP + AVID = Access for All

A successful AP program begins in elementary school. Building a districtwide AVID system provides essential skills for success for all students.

AP Boot Camp: Skill-Building Activities that Prepare Students

Participants will learn about AP Boot Camp, a series of experiential learning activities that allow students to practice the skills required for success in AP courses.

AP Calculus AB: Free Response as Spaced Practice

Participants will learn how to use student collaboration, feedback, and discourse to increase free-response scores.

AP Capstone™: Growing Pains

AP Capstone™ is an amazing program to teach, yet it's not easy to build. Come discuss the pitfalls and solutions to executing a successful program.

AP ChemPals: Developing Collaborative Partnerships that Drive Instruction

We will highlight the merits of cultivating collaborative partnerships as a means to drive effective instruction for diverse student populations.

Civil Discourse: Argument and Analysis in AP English Language

Learn how to teach an approach to argument and analysis focused on addressing an oppositional audience and multiple viewpoints while also evaluating bias.

Clearing a Path for All: A Deep Dive into the New Pre-AP Program

Join this session to learn about the new College Board Pre-AP Program and how you can earn the official Pre-AP designation.

Comparing Cultures: Successful Presentational Speaking Strategies

Explore how to best prepare students of all language levels for the presentational speaking task on AP World Language and Culture exams.

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 Complex Moves with Sources in Argument Writing for Synthesis FRQ

Learn to make complex moves with sources by illustrating, authorizing, extending, and countering to increase the complexity of source-based arguments.

Definite Integrals, Antiderivatives, and the Fundamental Theorem

The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus unites two big ideas: limits and derivatives, giving students a global perspective of calculus that leads to success on the AP Calculus Exam.

Developing Teacher and Student Supports

This session addresses the teacher supports, culture, and administrative planning.

Eliminating Barriers to Entry

Disparities in participation rates may be the result of school-imposed barriers. Learn how to eliminate these barriers while maintaining rigorous instruction.

Entering the Discussion Circle: Student Engagement Through Socratic Seminar

Take whole-class discussion to the next level through student-centered Socratic seminars.

From Simple to Complex, Embracing the Sentence in Analytical Reading

Tired of students racing toward the finish line of superficial understanding? Join us for writing strategies that encourage analytical thinking.

Gamification of Learning in AP English: Strategies for Multiple Choice Practice

In this session, games-based activities will be introduced that incorporate AP-style multiple choice practice into your instructional planning.

Growing Your AP Research Program

This session will give educators strategies for growing their AP Research program and developing opportunities for AP Research students.

Hacking for Equity: Join the Computer Science Movement

Hear about the successes and lessons learned while implementing AP Computer Science in a large and diverse school.

History in the Present Tense: The Case Method Project

Two teachers will share their work with Harvard Business School’s Case Method Project to bring case method teaching to their AP U.S. History courses.

I Placed My Order in October! Advice on Fall AP Exam Registration

Learn how schools in the 2018 pilot program for fall AP Exam registration enrolled students and submitted their exam order by October.

Increasing Options: Adding CLEP as a College Credit Opportunity

This session looks at how to use CLEP to expand college access and opportunity.

Instructional Approaches for AP Psychology

Learn new strategies for incorporating the teaching of content and skills. Bring your favorite lesson plan to review, possibly revise, and share.

Orange High School’s AP Calculus Success Story

In six years, Orange High School created and implemented an AP Calculus program where over 96% of students receive a 3 or higher. Strategies for increasing enrollment and success will be shared.

Quick: Write! Promoting Communication in AP Spanish

Explore the use of Quick Writes and Thought Prompts to promote oral and written communication in AP Spanish.

Reading Strategies for AP World Languages

Improve your students' ability to read in the target language with a variety of reading strategies.

Results from the 2019 AP Art History Exam

Participants meet with the AP Art History chief reader and receive information about student performance on the 2019 AP Art History Exam.

Results from the 2019 AP Biology Exam

Participants examine the results of the 2019 AP Biology Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2019 AP English Literature and Composition Exam

In this session, the chief reader for AP English Literature and Composition will review the results for the 2019 exam.

Results from the 2019 AP European History Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2019 AP European History Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2019 AP French Language and Culture Exam

What aspects of the 2019 free-response tasks posed challenges to test takers? And how can we best prepare students for success on the AP Exam?

Results from the 2019 AP Italian Language and Culture Exam

The 2019 AP Italian Language and Culture Exam results will be thoroughly explained and instructional implications will be discussed.

Results from the 2019 AP Japanese Language and Culture Exam

This session features results from the 2019 AP Japanese Language and Culture Exam. Participants will discuss and analyze student performance and implications for instruction.

Results from the 2019 AP Music Theory Exam

Analysis and observations of student performance on the AP Music Theory Exam.

Results from the 2019 AP Statistics Exam

The chief reader will review scoring guidelines and student performance on free-response questions from the 2019 AP Statistics Exam.

Results from the 2019 AP U.S. History Exam

Participants will explore the test construction, scoring decisions, and student exam performance on free-response questions from the 2019 AP U.S. History Exam with the chief reader.

Results of the 2019 AP Physics Exams

The results of the AP Physics exams will be presented, along with discussion of scoring practices and strategies for answering questions effectively.

See the New AP Instructional Resources: A Deep-Dive for AP Teachers on What’s New for 2019-20

Join us to learn how to use the new AP instructional resources in your classroom.

Strategies from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Applied to AP Spanish Literature

A workshop detailing strategies from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project that were implemented into the AP Spanish Literature and Culture course by a teacher, to improve student learning.

Switch Energy Alliance

This session will be a wide-ranging exploration of energy usage, including screenings of the documentary Switch and a collection of short videos about the world of energy.

Teaching AP English Literature like an AP English Language Instructor

Participants will learn how to incorporate mentor texts, a standard feature of the AP English Language classroom, into the AP English Literature curriculum.

The Evolving AP Human Geography Framework

Participants will learn about the evolving AP Human Geography Curriculum Framework and reflect on the geographic thinking behind it.

The First Amendment Project

Explore resources created by the National Constitution Center and College Board to enhance student understanding of First Amendment freedoms.

The Long and Winding Road: An Artistic Journey

This session will offer methods to strengthen a school’s art program, build creative, problem-solving artists, and improve student success in AP Art and Design.

The Supreme 15: Teaching the U.S. Supreme Court Cases for the AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam

This session will examine reading, analysis, and application strategies for the 15 required U.S. Supreme Court cases on the AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam.

Understanding the New AP Computer Science A Curriculum Framework

We'll examine the details of the new AP Computer Science A Curriculum Framework and its alignment to the AP Exam.

Vertical Alignment: Building AP Capacity for Districtwide Student Success

This session will outline how districts can implement an AP–aligned 6th to 12th grade honors English program and a community for teacher collaboration.

Formative vs. Summative Assessment in AP History Courses

Explore formative and summative assessments for AP courses in history and the new AP assessment resources available in 2019.

Do-Re-Mis and 1-2-3s: Instructional Strategies for AP Music Theory

This presentation demonstrates approaches to incorporating singing, moving, and active participation to enhance students’ musical skills.

Verve: Design Thinking with an Edge in AP Art and Design

Educators will obtain a fresh perspective on imaginative thinking with the goal of inspiring verve in their AP Art and Design students’ artwork.

"AP for All" in a Comprehensive High School

How do you increase AP performance among all students? We embraced this challenge in our comprehensive high school and will share our dramatic results.

Achieving Equity: Mainstreaming Strategies for the Pre-AP Classroom

Strategies to adapt the Pre-AP curriculum for struggling learners and special education students will be discussed.

Activating Your AP Computer Science Classroom

Learn how to jump-start computer science ideas with engaging warm-ups, introduction of topics, and more using interactive activities.

Advanced Placement and Students with Special Needs: a Growing Reality

Effective instructional and differentiation strategies for the incorporation of students with special needs into the AP classroom.

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

This session will provide a system and build a culture to help students of all AP classes achieve higher scores on their exams.

AP Scores—How Are They Determined?

This session will provide an overview of the processes used to determine AP Exam scores.

Applying Artificial Intelligence to Score FRQs in AP Psychology

In this session we will discuss a pilot project undertaken to evaluate AI to support greater frequency and volume of free-response questions in AP classrooms.

Argumentation in the AP Art History Free-Response Question

Participants will examine the new free-response requirement on the AP Art History Exam, the skill of argumentation.

Avoiding Performance Task Pitfalls in AP Seminar

Set students up for success on the AP Seminar performance tasks with an awareness of challenges and a repertoire of strategies to overcome them.

Beyond the Stereotypes: High-Achieving Hispanic Women

This session will focus on how race, gender, and class intersect in high school AP classes, and how teachers can better connect and challenge these young Hispanic women.

Building Growth Mindset and Bridging Math Learning with Technology

Explore how technology develops growth mindset in you and your students to help bridge mathematics content and learning.

Building your AP Program: Findings from the Latest Research

This session will highlight new AP research that shows how to increase participation in AP, especially among underrepresented students.

Choice Reading in the AP English Classroom

By examining research and best practices, participants will learn how choice reading bolsters synthesis, argument, and rhetorical analysis.

Connecting AP Calculus to Fractal Geometry

Fractal geometry can be used in connection with infinite series to add elements of creativity, art, and design into an AP Calculus BC classroom.

Connecting Data Analysis, Study Design, and Inference in AP Statistics

Students often miss the link between data collection and data analysis. We’ll look at two investigations that promote this connection via simulation.

Connecting Pre-AP and AP to Drive Success on the SAT Suite of Assessments

A look at how AP and Pre-AP are connected to support success on the SAT Suite of Assessments.

Connecting Pre-AP Visual Arts to the AP Art and Design Portfolio

Explore connections between Pre-AP and AP Art and Design courses, and learn strategies to prepare students for the new AP portfolio.

Course Updates and New Resources for AP Physics 2

Participants will develop strategies to use new AP resources to teach the challenging topic of thermodynamics in their AP Physics 2 course.

Developing Intercultural Competence in AP World Language and Culture Courses

This session focuses on how to develop intercultural competence in the world language classroom by linking curriculum to real-world events.

Do Your Students Really Understand Equilibrium?

Join this hands-on workshop to overcome student misconceptions of equilibrium.

Facing the Fear of Poetry

This interactive session explores why poetry instruction can be challenging for students and teachers and offers adaptable instructional strategies.

How Pre-AP, AP, and the SAT Suite Work Together for College Readiness

Learn how skills taught in Pre-AP connect with skills assessed on the SAT Suite and skills used in AP courses to build a college readiness program.

Instructional Approaches for AP European History

Learn new strategies for incorporating the teaching of content and skills. Bring your favorite lesson plan to review, possibly revise, and share.

Lots of “I”s in Team: Lessons Learned from Support Programs for AP Teachers

Explore what we learned from two pilot programs to help teachers as individuals and as a community, with a focus on instructional coaching and regional meetings.

Mind the (Content) Gap—post-1450 Middle Eastern World History

Enrich discussions of modern world history with tested lessons on the Middle East. Short-answer questions, long-essay questions, document-based questions, bibliography, and digital resources provided.

Modeling the Struggle: The “Cold Read” as an AP English Literature Instructional Strategy

Participants will learn how they can model real-time analysis to build students’ self-efficacy and interpretive acumen.

More Than Fun: Creative Writing in the AP English Literature Classroom

Participants In this session will practice creative writing methods meant to deepen student understanding of author purpose, craft, and structure.

Multikulti–A Sample Unit for the AP German Curriculum

Explore how to design and implement a thematic unit for an AP world language and culture course curriculum.

Raising Scores in AP Biology and AP Statistics Through Collaboration

This session will show how two teachers of AP Biology and AP Statistics worked together on chi-squared analysis labs and box plots to raise scores in both of their subjects.

Results from the 2019 AP Calculus Exams

The chief reader and chief reader designate share lessons learned from student performance on the 2019 AP Calculus Exams (AB and BC).

Results from the 2019 AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam

The session is a report on the 2019 AP Chinese results followed by a discussion on instructional strategies that lead to AP success.

Results from the 2019 AP Latin Exam

The AP Latin chief reader will present data on student performance on the free-response section of the 2019 AP Latin Exam.

Results from the 2019 AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam

Participants will review results of the 2019 AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam and will develop strategies to help students successfully answer free-response questions.

Results from the 2019 Comparative Government and Politics Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2019 AP Comparative Government and Politics exam to identify particular challenges for students.

Results of the 2019 AP Environmental Science Exam

This session reviews the free-response questions on the 2019 AP Environmental Science Exam to aid educators in their teaching of subject material.

Rhetorical Situations—Rhetorical Choices

This session explores strategies for teaching students to make their own strategic rhetorical choices and to analyze the rhetorical choices of other writers.

Student Engagement: Oligopolies and Game Theory Concepts

Learn strategies and methods that will engage students while learning and applying concepts of oligarchies and game theory.

Teaching Analytical Writing Using Multimedia Documents

Make the document-based question rubric more accessible and transparent by demonstrating analysis and reasoning using music, art, and dance in multimedia documents.

The Active Learning Environment in Freshman Math Class

In this session, identified gaps in the instruction of freshmen math courses will be discussed, along with strategies to overcome the gap.

The Flexibility of Mind Mapping to Reach All Learners

This session will focus on how to effectively create and use mind mapping to organize, build, plan, and review challenging content.

Thinking Like a Political Scientist: Analyzing 2018 Election Data

This session will focus on lessons that analyze polls, attempt to understand voter turnout, examine demographic data, and assess 2018 electoral outcomes.

Upcoming Developments and Changes in the AP Program

Join Trevor Packer for a close look at the developments and changes underway to support AP classrooms.

Use Your Voice to Advance AP in State and Federal Legislation

This session will explore how we are using AP teacher voices to expand access to AP by leveraging legislation at the state and federal level.

Using Forensic Linguistics for Rhetorical Analysis

Using forensic linguistics and the FBI as inspiration, students determine the authorship of documents using stylistic and syntactic indicators.

Vertical Teaming Literature from Pre-AP to AP Spanish

Literature brings cultural perspectives to the forefront of a language class. Come explore how to incorporate literature into your AP or Pre-AP class.

All-Inclusive AP: Every Single Sophomore Takes AP Human Geography

This interactive session will explain how a school district implemented AP Human Geography as a mandatory sophomore course and how teachers can increase the number of students who take the course.

AP World Café: A Dialogue with the College Board International Team

Meet College Board partners for your school, network with fellow international educators, and gain understanding of plans and actions unique to AP success overseas.

CCOT-Context-Cause-Comp Oh My! Making Sense of Reasoning and Writing Skills

Demystify the requirements and skills with tested models. Participate in guided practice using 2019 history exams. Paper and digital copies provided.

College Readiness: Increasing Equity and Access

Learn how Georgia districts are developing talent and increasing AP student performance, especially for historically underrepresented students.

Course Updates and New Resources for AP Physics 1

The AP Physics 1 session will consist of three distinct segments: The Course, The Exam, and New Resources.

Creating Rubrics for Project-Based Instruction in the AP Classroom

Participants will discuss the development and use of rubrics for project-based instruction in the AP English Literature and Composition and AP English Language and Composition classrooms.

Cultivating Conversations that Count

Purposeful conversation promotes growth in student writing and improved performance on the AP Exam—explore creative ways to make student discussions count.

Designing Assessments in AP U.S. Government and Politics

Learn how to design multiple-choice and free-response questions based on the new curriculum framework.

Developing Historical Thinking Skills in Pre-AP

Explore techniques that embed skill practice into the everyday learning experience of history students.

Digging Beneath the Surface of the Areas of Focus in Pre-AP Algebra 1

Participants will review the new Pre-AP Algebra 1 Areas of Focus, create their own classroom experiences, and use the Shared Principles to reflect.

Digitize Music in AP CS Principles - Encode sound on the TI-Innovator Hub

Looking to offer AP Computer Science Principles students a different creative outlet? Learn to encode music by coding on the TI-Nspire with the TI-Innovator Hub.

Engaging Students in AP Calculus

Participants will engage in some activities using different instructional approaches that utilize task cards, writing prompts, circuits, and games.

Expanding Rural College Readiness through AP, Civics, and Computer Science

K–12 educators show how AP increases college readiness, civic engagement, and digital literacy in the 10,000 small/rural U.S. school districts.

Explore Works By Contemporary Black Writers

Participants will be introduced to works by four contemporary black novelists and three poets, as well as strategies for use of this work in AP English classes.

From "I Can't" to "I Did":Literacy Tools to Transform Struggling Students

Learn literacy strategies to transform unprepared students in any reading-based AP course.

From Pre-AP to AP English: Four Strategies to Increase Rigor and Engagement

Learn how to design and implement rigorous and student-centered strategies—with special emphasis on differentiated instruction and vertical alignment.

Get Ready for the 2019-20 School Year: New AP Annual Processes

Join us to learn about the AP Program’s new resources and how they’ll be beneficial to you and your school.

How Much AP Should Students Take? A Look at Course and Exam Choice Patterns

We’ll explore what we know about students’ AP course and exam choice patterns in high school, including who takes AP, how many AP courses they take, and why they take it.

Instructional Approaches for AP Biology

Learn new strategies for incorporating the teaching of content and skills. Bring your favorite lesson plan to review, possibly revise, and share.

Keeping the Vibe Alive: AP Innovations and High Impact Practice

Learn how AP teachers integrate high impact cross-curricular learning.

Les Animaux et Nous: A Thematic Unit for AP French Language and Culture

Participants will explore the concept of les animaux et nous through the lens of the AP French Language and Culture course themes.

Let’s Articulate: Conversation Between AP Teachers and College Faculty

This session suggests ways to begin and sustain essential conversations between colleagues at the high school and college levels.

Living History with AP Euro, APUSH, and AP World

Experiential lessons that create opportunities to live out an event in history through documents, biographical information, and historical evidence.

Native American Issues and the Development of Historical Thinking Skills

Develop historical thinking skills by linking Native American issues to broader historical processes. Receive primary and secondary source activities.

One Country at a Time: Culture as a Vehicle for AP Spanish

Teaching AP Spanish Language and Culture through a sociohistorical and geographic lens with a focus on interculturality makes AP themes work for you.

Overview of the AP Registration and Ordering System

Receive an overview of the new AP Exam management tool for coordinators—the new AP Registration and Ordering System.

People and Pollution: Hands-on Lessons to Enhance Your AP Environmental Sciences Instruction

Discover interactive lessons to connect population trends to the pollution challenges (air, water and solid waste) to our ecosystems and human health.

Playing Nice with the Mean Value Theorem

Attendees will explore the concept of the average rate of change, with a focus on conceptual understanding using dynamic graphical explorations.

Political Action Project in AP Government and Politics

Examine three designs for a political action project and brainstorm with colleagues in a structured dialogue.

Powerful Poetry Activities in AP Spanish Literature and Culture

Demystify the challenges of poetry and elevate performance by developing essential analytical skills with engaging activities.

Pre-AP Arts: Owning the Process

Hear from Pre-AP Arts teachers who have expanded their practice to facilitate student experimentation, reflection, and creative investigation.

Preparing Students for the AP Statistics Investigative Task

This session will provide AP Statistics teachers with strategies for helping their students succeed on the investigative task.

Promote Active Learning in a Flipped Online Model: Design and Strategies

This session aims at providing instructional strategies and design principles for incorporating active learning in a flipped online AP course.

Results from the 2019 AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam

An AP chief reader discusses student performance, suggests strategies for student success, and explains the transition to updated portfolio requirements.

Results from the 2019 AP Chemistry Exam

The results of the AP Chemistry Exam will be presented, along with discussion of scoring practices and strategies for answering questions effectively.

Results from the 2019 AP Computer Science A Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2019 AP Computer Science A Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2019 AP Macroeconomics Exam

Participants will review the results from the 2019 AP Macroeconomics exam and learn about student performance on the free-response questions.

Results from the 2019 English Language and Composition Exam

An overview of the results of the 2019 exam, with teacher recommendations.

Self-Edits and Peer Reviews: Structured Reflection to Improve Writing

Participants will explore strategies to support student reflections on their writing as part of the performance assessment tasks.

Strategies for Leveraging School-Community Partnerships within AP Classes

Leveraging school-community partnerships is explored, via the story of a six-year collaboration between a rural school and a local psychiatric hospital.

Three-Column Poetry Analysis and the Death of the Formulaic Thesis

Introduction to a critical approach to analyzing poetry and fostering creative, higher-level thinking and writing skills.

Using Portfolio in the AP Language Classroom

Come and learn how easy it is to empower students to assess their progress toward reaching the goals of an AP course.

Using the New York Times Magazine to Teach Analysis and Argument

Learn to use the features, photography, essays, and columns in the New York Times Magazine as vibrant examples of argumentation and rhetoric in the classroom.

Utilizing an Effective Professional Learning Team to Grow Your AP Program

In this session a team of AP teachers spanning across content areas will provide a look at the process used to create and manage an AP PLT effectively.

What AP Lang (and Lit) Can Learn from Theater

Actors and playwrights excel at many skills students need to succeed on the AP Lang exam. Discover what we can learn from them.

When PBL Meets AP: Prioritizing Project-Based Learning in the AP Curriculum

As schools introduce project-based learning, teachers struggle to cover suggested content for their AP courses. Join us to share effective strategies.

A Formula for Decreasing Student Anxiety

This session will explore and attend to the anxiety students have in science and mathematics, especially when the subjects strongly correlate.

A Travel Guide for Non-Natives Taking Spanish Literature

How to help non-native speakers build a positive attitude and gain the skills needed to not only survive AP Spanish classes, but also to thrive and succeed.

AP Boot Camp: Advanced Teacher Content Training

This session provides a blueprint for executing a district-lead training sequence for teachers to build their own knowledge and support advanced student learning.

AP Course Audit Boot Camp for AP Coordinators and New Teachers

Everything AP Coordinators and new AP teachers need to know about AP Course Audit participation.

AP Physics C Symposium

This session will support both of the AP Physics C courses and include information about the courses, exams, and new resources.

Banishing Seclusion to Bolster Student Success

Participants will examine the process utilized by the Delaware Valley High School to grow a collaborative culture among its AP teachers.

Belonging in Computer Science: Supporting Female and Minority Students

In this session teachers will learn how to recruit and retain female and minority students, who are traditionally underrepresented in computer science.

Embracing a Thematic Approach to the AP World History Content Realignment

Participants in this session will learn a model of syllabus reorganization that allows for teacher flexibility and choice, while abiding by APWH geographic coverage and periodization models.

From Numbers to Narrative: Using Data to Make Your AP English Class Soar

Data can overwhelm teachers. Whether you're a novice or veteran, our session gives AP English teachers easy tools to quickly use data in class.

Give 'Em a Break: Using Brain Breaks to Increase Learning and Stamina

What are “brain breaks” and why are they important? This will be explained, with many examples, in this session.

Increasing Opportunity for All Students with AP Statistics and AP Calculus

Increasing opportunities for every student has implications for AP Statistics and AP Calculus. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics's new publication provides direction.

Invest in Your Growth and Drive Student Performance with AP Mentoring

Harness the power of mentors to support your AP program.

Investigating Productivity, Biomass, and Food Webs via Online Resources

Explore online resources to teach about ecosystem productivity, biomass, and food webs, emphasizing mathematical models that represent energy flow.

Let’s Get Physical: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Exploring Geopolitics

Discover how to use the laws of the universe as an analytical lens to deepen inquiry and engage non-traditional history students.

Outbreak! Bring the Real World into Your AP Biology classroom

Follow in the steps of CDC investigators by exploring the cause of a foodborne illness outbreak, using evidence to support a claim about the source.

Project-Based Service Learning

AP educators from an international school will present a tech-assisted, project-based model of service learning with a global focus.

Question Formulating Technique in AP U.S. History

Using the Question Formulating Technique, participants will create a student-centered instructional approach that will engage your students.

Redefining Rigor: Robust Student Learning in the Literature Classroom

It's not more work or longer texts—It's smarter work and better text selection. This session examines real rigor in an AP English course.

Results from the 2019 AP Capstone Research Exam

This session looks at the 2019 AP Research assessment, scoring process, scores, common errors and misconceptions, and strategies for improving student performance.

Rethinking the Canon: Chicano Poetry in the AP Classroom

AP English Literature teachers will read, discuss, and learn how to pair contemporary Chicano literature to works from the canon.

Setting Students Up for AP Success: Why K-8 Social Studies Matters

Prepare students for success in AP social studies by introducing connecting themes and enduring understandings in K–8 social studies classes.

Slicing the Pie: Online Budget Simulation

Students play the role of a freshman lawmaker in the U.S. House assigned to a budget subcommittee. Vocabulary words come to life as students engage.

Stimulating Simulations Throughout AP Statistics

Rather than teach simulations in a single unit, this session will explore the idea of using interesting simulations throughout the entire course.

Supporting AP Teachers: A Guide for School Leaders

Learn how school leaders are using the new the AP resources to support AP teachers and improve student learning.

Supporting Students with the Updated AP Art and Design Program

Learn strategies to support teaching and learning success with updated AP Art and Design portfolio requirements and rubrics.

The Beatles' Music in the AP Music Theory Classroom

This session will explore the many connections between the AP Music Theory curriculum and the melodic language of the Fab Four.

The Great Calculus Break-In

This session will show you how to design an escape room game to provide your students with exciting competition and formative assessment.

The Magic of Chemistry

In this session we will explore how magic can be used to teach chemical concepts, as well as create some “magical” transformations in the lab.

The Open Enrollment Path to Advanced Placement Courses

Systemic processes and experiences of an open enrollment Advanced Placement (AP) course will be reviewed.

TI-84 Plus CE Hacks: Tips and Tricks for AP Calculus

Effectively use the TI-84 Plus CE in AP Calculus. Topics discussed will include graphical databases, storing values, and creating groups of programs.

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

Updates on trends and new resources in AP world language and culture courses and exams.

Using Simulations to Study Foreign Policy Decisions

Learn how to use foreign policy simulations in your classroom to help students gain knowledge, build skills, and broaden perspectives.

Using Student & Staff Voices to Shift a School Culture

School leaders will highlight how they utilized passion, innovative thinking, and tools from Equal Opportunity Schools to double their AP enrollment in one year.

Valuable Lessons from the AP Economics Teacher Communities

The moderator of the AP economics Teacher Communities will share the most meaningful takeaways from discussions in these communities in recent years.

Where You Gonna Go When the Volcano Blows?

A lesson illustrating the use of product struggle to predict lava flow, applicable from middle school to AP Calculus.

Writing Across the Disciplines: Building an Argument with Sources

The session will focus on the essential skill of using sources in service of argument in all AP history courses, as well as in AP English Language.

A Glimpse Into the AP Latin Classroom

Learn strategies for pacing, organizing, and engaging students in the AP Latin classroom. Teaching strategies and projects will also be discussed.

All Means All: Expanding AP to a Schoolwide Model

Representatives of Missouri’s Oak Park High School will present their AP success story and help audience members develop a system where every student can access AP.

Analyzing the Author's Craft: Purposeful Annotation in AP Literature

Participants will learn to push students beyond reader-response annotations and move them towards more analytical annotating, thinking, and writing.

AP Art and Design: Creating Your Curriculum for the Year

In this workshop, teachers will have time to organize their AP Art and Design curriculum based on their school calendar.

Beyond the Red Pen: Automated Writing Evaluation Tools for AP Classrooms

This hands-on workshop demonstrates how an automated writing evaluation tool enables more writing practice and student reflection in AP courses.

Building Educator Capacity in AP Campus Programs

Learn about increasing teacher capacity through AP review sessions, AP data talks, and an annual AP conference.

Closing the Achievement Gap with Diverse Texts and Socratic Seminars

This session shows how certain topics, texts, and Socratic seminars can help students prepare for the AP English Language and Composition Exam.

Connecting Science Practices to AP Biology Content

Participants will receive classroom-ready instructional strategies to target AP Biology challenge areas.

Creative and Critical: Engaging Students Through Arts Integration

In this session participants will experience lessons utilizing arts integration strategies.

Educating Advanced Students to Aid Their Futures

Many straight-A or advanced students routinely avoid enrolling AP courses. This problem can be solved by educating students about the positives that come from taking AP classes.

Effective Feedback for Student Essay Writing in AP History

Come see what an essay conference looks like and glean how student progress is tracked, in order to address individual weaknesses in DBQ and LEQ writing.

Exploring the Scoring Guidelines for AP World Language and Culture Exams

In this session we’ll look in-depth at the scoring guidelines used for AP world language and culture exams at the AP Reading.

Improving Academic Expectations Among Students from Underrepresented Groups

This session will provide an overview on how school officials can improve academic expectations among students from underrepresented groups.

Improving Students’ Understanding of Energy and Systems in AP Physics 1

Common wording can generate incorrect energy and system models. AP Physics can help students develop a coherent conceptual model to improve problem solving.

Instructional Approaches for AP Art History

Learn new strategies for incorporating the teaching of content and skills. Bring your favorite lesson plan to review, possibly revise, and share.

Instructional Approaches for AP Computer Science A

The AP Computer Science A instructional approaches help teachers pair content and skills with effective instructional strategies.

Intro to the AP English Literature and Composition Curriculum Framework

This session—led by AP English curriculum and instruction staff—examines the understandings, skills, and architecture of the AP English Literature and Composition Curriculum Framework.

Making the Opportunity Myth a Reality: Integrating ELA Instruction

Join us to deepen your understanding of how to integrate instruction in ELA to support all students for AP and college readiness.

Overcoming Misconceptions-Weak/Strong Acid Base Chemistry

Join this workshop reviewing the inquiry lab titled "Why is Sodium Acetate Added to Your Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips?" to explore students’ common misconceptions of acids and bases.

Persuasive Essay Strategies for AP World Language and Culture Exams

Participants will review insights gained from past persuasive essay tasks in order to help their AP world language and culture students succeed.

Pre-AP and AP Math Strategies for Building Conceptual Understanding

Participants will analyze a typical calculus free-response question to see evidence that every math course plays a role in the development of strong AP math students.

Pre-AP Pilot Year: Building the Plane as It Took Flight

Learn about the rationale for joining Pre-AP, plus preparation, challenges and successes, changes for the following years, and the program’s connection to AP.

Project-Based Learning in AP U.S. History

Participants will learn three project-based learning ideas that have been designed and used specifically for AP U.S. History.

Raise Those Calculus AP Scores: Proven Strategies and Aligning Key Ideas

This session will allow participants to explore strategies that a high school used to successfully raise AP Calculus AB and BC scores.

Reading, Understanding, and Teaching Secondary Sources in AP History

This session will examine different strategies for locating, exploring, and employing secondary sources in the history classroom.

Reasons to Love the Updated AP Comparative Government and Politics Course

How the updated AP Comparative Government and Politics course is more skill-based, more focused, more applicable, and more manageable for both teachers and students.

Results from the 2019 AP Calculus Exams

The chief reader and chief reader designate share lessons learned from student performance on the 2019 AP Calculus Exams (AB and BC).

Results from the 2019 AP German Language and Culture Exam

This session features results and insights from the 2019 AP German Language and Culture Exam. Participants will develop strategies for preparing students for future success.

Results from the 2019 AP Human Geography Exam

An analysis of the 2019 reading and discussion on how to bring geographic skills into classroom instruction.

Results from the 2019 AP Psychology Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2019 AP Psychology Exam.

Results from the 2019 AP Seminar Exam and Performance Tasks

This session will present the results of the 2019 AP Seminar Exam and performance tasks.

Results from the 2019 AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam

This session explores the 2019 exam results in order to inform instructors and strategize meaningful improvements to student performance.

Results from the 2019 AP World History Exam

The results of the 2019 AP World History Exam will be presented by the chief reader to identify areas that posed particular challenges for students.

Results from the 2019 English Language and Composition Exam

An overview of the results of the 2019 exam, with teacher recommendations.

Scitsitats PA: That's AP Statistics Flipped!

Illinois’ Lake Park High School flipped its course and quadrupled its enrollment. Last year, 78.9% of our 109 test takers earned a 3+. We now have 10 sections with 222 students.

Services for Students with Disabilities and Testing Accommodations for AP

Understanding Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) accommodations and their role within the AP Exam administration.

Setting Goals and Recruiting to Close AP Access Gaps

Learn how to leverage the right goals and a culture of belonging to close your AP access gaps with underrepresented students.

Successes and Challenges of an AP Program in a Rural School

AP programs in rural schools can be successful, despite special challenges. In this session tips for success and strategies to overcome challenges will be presented.

Taking the “Syn” Out of Syntax: Helping Students Really Get It

AP English Literature readers will share tips to help students understand, analyze, and write about syntax. Participants will generate ideas for class activities.

Teaching Sentence Fluency to Improve Students' Writing and Reading

Learn specific strategies that show students how to increase sentence fluency and complexity, develop their style, and analyze an author's craft.

Teaching Spillovers in Production and Consumption in AP Economics Courses

This session will clarify negative and positive externalities in production and consumption and provide sample teaching strategies for this content.

The Interactive Constitution: 21st Century, Nonpartisan, Civics Education

Explore the Interactive Constitution and other classroom-ready resources and instructional strategies to promote constitutional literacy.

The Writing Revolution: Building Historical Thinkers One Sentence at a Time

Participate in a variety of brief, replicable writing activities that will help students to improve their writing and make complex historical claims.

Upcoming Developments and Changes in the AP Program

Join Trevor Packer for a close look at the developments and changes underway to support AP classrooms.

Using Popular Music To Teach AP Music Theory

Using popular styles allows a simpler way to introduce music theory concepts that students can then apply to Baroque and Classical examples.

A Culture of Access: How Students of Color Can Feel They Belong to the AP Community

Partner schools will share the tactics used to increase students’ sense of belonging; this in turn eliminated barriers to AP courses for students of color.

Accessing All Student Voices: How to De-Track the AP Language Classroom

Recommendations for inviting “non-traditional” students into the literacies of evaluating information, civil discourse, and argumentation.

Addressing Student Struggles in AP Statistics with Targeted Strategies

This session will model three strategies from the updated AP Statistics Course and Exam Description, with a focus on addressing typical student struggles.

An AP Culture: Not Another New Initiative

This workshop will draw upon the presenters’ experience doubling AP enrollment in two different school districts.

AP Art and Design Collaborations = Art and Design Success! #togetherweARTbetter

Participants will hear from three AP Studio Art teachers, who will discuss how they collaborated on their lessons throughout a school year.

AP French Resources about Antilles-Guyane

Discover relevant sites and authentic resources from Antilles-Guyane to integrate into AP French Language and Culture instruction.

AP with WE Service: An Innovative Approach to Teaching AP

Service learning can deepen student understanding of AP content in all courses.

Beauty and Aesthetics as a Pathway to AP Italian

Using literature, music, and art in Italian classrooms from level 1 to AP to explore contemporary Italy and its challenges.

Bring the AP Capstone Diploma Program to Your School

Learn if AP Capstone is a strong fit for your school. Teachers, administrators, and College Board staff will share their experiences and an overview.

Building a Successful Pre-AP Program

Join us to learn about the College Board’s newly launched Pre-AP Program and hear from partner schools on their successful implementations.

Citizen Science in AP Environmental Science: Why Do Cities Need Trees?

Participants use citizen science tools to determine the value of green infrastructure and help prepare students for new free-response question formats.

Designing Formative Assessment Pathways and Collaborative Data Cycles

Explore how benchmark assessments, paired with an effective feedback and data loop, can motivate students and enhance instruction in the AP classroom.

Digital Practice and Assessment Tools for AP Music Theory

Explore new digital practice tools to support your AP Music Theory course and engage students with individualized instruction and real-time assessment.

Does It Really Matter Where the Line Is Drawn?

In this session, the different types of boundaries will be defined. Also discussed: how boundaries can lead to international conflicts.

Engaging Gen Z: Stimulating Strategies for National and European Identity

Bring the AP European History theme of “National and European identity” alive in the classroom using digital strategies that meet the challenges of Generation Z learners.

Enhancing the AP Art History Classroom with Google Resources

In this session participants will learn how to create an online hub for student learning by exploring Google resources.

Expanding Access to AP Compter Science Courses in New York City

The NYC Department of Education will discuss expanding access to underrepresented students in AP Computer Science courses via teacher training and recruitment.

Exploring Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain

The session contextualizes medieval works on the AP Spanish Literature and Culture reading list by exploring positive interactions among religious/cultural groups in medieval Spain.

Geopolitics And Politics—The Rise of Illiberalism in Europe and Asia

This session will look at how AP Comparative Government and Politics countries such as China, Russia, and Iran use their influence to impact neighboring regions.

Get Ready for the 2019-20 School Year: New AP Annual Processes

Join us to learn about the AP Program’s new resources and how they’ll be beneficial to you and your school.

Igniting a Spark: Digital Tools That Fuel Productive Lingering

This session explores how automated tools deliver agency for students and embolden teachers to use feedback to guide student learning and influence instructional practice.

In League to Promote Informed Citizenship: AP Language and the League of Women Voters

In this session participants will learn how to guide students through the process of selecting a class issue, studying the issue, and presenting their position before an authentic audience.

Interdisciplinary Opportunities in the AP Classroom

This session will explore interdisciplinary opportunities between AP U.S. History and AP Language and Composition.

Intro to the AP English Language and Composition Curriculum Framework

This session—led by AP English curriculum and instruction staff—examines the understandings, skills, and architecture of the curriculum framework .

Make Learning Memorable: Implementing Memory Strategies in an AP Course

This session highlights instructional and assessment strategies founded on memory research, particularly testing, spacing, and imagery effects.

Maximizing the Potential of the Interpretive Mode for Cultural Connections

Students need inspiration to connect with resources outside the classroom. This session will provide teachers with a ready-made project that guides students to grow in language skills.

Multiple Representations in AP Chemistry

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

New Formative Assessment Tools for AP Calculus

This session is an introduction to new formative assessment tools that the College Board will be launching in August for AP Calculus.

New Resources for AP Physics 1 Students

An introduction to the new AP Physics 1 student workbook.

Overview of the AP Registration and Ordering System

Receive an overview of the new AP Exam management tool for coordinators—the new AP Registration and Ordering System.

Results from the 2019 AP English Literature and Composition Exam

In this session, the chief reader for AP English Literature and Composition will review the results for the 2019 exam.

Results from the 2019 AP Microeconomics Exam

Participants will review the results from the 2019 AP Microeconomics Exam and learn about student performance on the free-response questions.

Results from the 2019 AP U.S. History Exam

Participants will explore the test construction, scoring decisions, and student exam performance on free-response questions from the 2019 AP U.S. History Exam with the chief reader.

Results from the 2019 U.S. Government and Politics Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2019 AP U.S. Government and Politics Exam.

Scaffold and Release: Preparing ELLs for the AP Literature Exam

This session will focus on a method for building a proper foundation for ELLs in AP Literature to teach them how to organize and expand writing, and add voice to create more authentic essays.

Scientific Argumentation in AP Physics 1

The findings of a doctoral study exploring the development of scientific argumentation skill in AP Physics 1 students will be presented.

Stayin' Alive! Keeping the "AP Vibe" Going After the Summer Boot Camp

Administration and faculty from Pinecrest Prep Academy will share the "how to" of their schoolwide AP plan to engage and support students.

Stranding Laboratory Experiences in AP Biology

Explore ways in which stranding laboratory experiences together can make meaningful connections and allow the student to gain technical skills.

Strategies Stolen from the Virtual Classroom

Participants will learn to reach students by exploring tools, such as online mock exams and virtual communication, that allow students the flexibility to participate in AP activities.

Swim, Don't Sink: Overcoming Obstacles in Historical Text Analysis

This session provides Pre-AP social studies teachers with a strategy that targets students who may have vocabulary deficits.

Take Your AP History Students on a Virtual Field Trip

Learn how to take your students on virtual field trips to relevant AP historical locations including the Great Wall and Tiananmen Square.

Teaching Ablatives Absolute in AP Latin

Learn ways to improve students’ ability to identify and accurately translate ablatives absolute in Latin texts.

Tears and Laughter: Tragedy and Comedy in AP English Literature

Learning about comic and tragic perspectives in literature also allows students to consider how they view events in their own lives.

Theme-Based Teaching and Learning in AP Chinese

This presentation deals with the theme-based language teaching approach that situates language learning in thematic units for AP Chinese.

Using Desmos to Embed the MPACs in Your Teaching of AP Calculus

Learn how to use the Desmos graphing calculator and activity builder to place the Mathematical Practices for AP Calculus at the heart of your course.

Using Historiography and Historical Research Skills Within the AP Framework

Learn how to implement historiography and historical research skills while prepping students for the AP Exam.

Using Kinesthetic Learning Activities to Teach AP Computer Science A Topics

See how several AP Computer Science A topics can be introduced through kinesthetic learning activities.

Where Analog and Digital Meet—Using Shakespeare e-books in the Classroom

In this highly participatory session, choral readings, close readings, and careful analysis using digital tools will take place in order to illuminate Shakespeare’s work.

Writing to Learn and Student Self-Assessment in AP and Pre-AP History Classes

Participants will learn how to scaffold historical writing skills to support learners with varying degrees of readiness for AP history classes.

¡Tengo hambre! Navigating the Topic of Food in Language and Culture Courses

Explore the topic of food, from novice descriptions of meal preferences to AP-level questions related to the AP course themes of global challenges and contemporary life.

A New Look: AP Score Reporting

Learn about the newly re-designed AP Score Reports for Educators portal and available reports in 2019.

Access to AP Is More Than Just Allowing Students to Enroll in a Course

Representatives of Pinellas County Schools share systems and processes that ensure equitable access for Advanced Placement enrollment and content.

Achieving Balance in AP Spanish Language and Culture

This session addresses achieving balance in the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing, so as to give full attention to all.

Actually, You Can Do This! Teaching Perseverance in AP

Proven strategies to teach academic perseverance and empower AP students.

All Math Is the Same: Unlocking the Power of the Integral

A look at how the differential unites the major topics in calculus and shows all integrals are the same regardless of the context they are used in.

Analysis Writing Instruction That Moves You (and Your Students)

This session will provide participants with creative and interactive strategies for teaching analysis writing.

AP with WE Service: Implementation Strategies for all AP Courses

Interested in learning how AP with WE Service could fit in your course? Join us for this implementation workshop.

Building Confidence by Bringing Calculus into the Pre-AP Classroom

Help your students build confidence in mathematics by practicing the Mathematical Practices for AP Calculus (MPACs) that are emphasized in your Pre-AP math classes.

Cognitive and Brain-Based Strategies in the AP Classroom

Explore how learning and memory work, the cognitive challenges students face, and practical strategies that can overcome these challenges.

Correlation and Regression Methods—Is Inference Always Appropriate?

Connections will be made through all AP Statistics correlation and regression content, with determination of when inference is appropriate.

Data Analysis in Pre-AP Biology with HHMI BioInteractive

Explore how HHMI BioInteractive lessons support authentic data analysis experiences for student in Pre-AP Biology. Resources and strategies included.

Dialectical Journals: Conquering Diabolical Aspects of Analysis

Analysis is a cumbersome charge even for the most skilled—the devil is in the details. Dialectical journals aid in conquering this difficult task.

Differentiation and AP Environmental Science for Homeschoolers and Non-traditional Students

Unlike traditional high school students, homeschoolers have variable science backgrounds, thus offering instructors opportunities for differentiation.

Empowering Students and Building Confidence

Attendees will see how students at one high school engage in mentoring for those who need support accessing new skills through systematic tutoring, peer-led breakout sessions, and more.

Exploring Complexity in AP World History, or the Unicorn Point!

Explore new strategies for teaching complex arguments in AP World History.

Exploring Sustained Investigation Through a Small Series of Artworks

Learn how to help your AP Art and Design students to successfully narrow their focus and begin a small series of works for sustained investigation.

Framework to Solve Extreme Value Problems in AP Calculus

Explore a framework that can be used to help students understand, organize, solve and present their work on extreme value AP Calculus questions.

How Noir Can Show Us the Light: Solving the Mystery of a Challenging Poem

How AP English Literature students can use tried and true techniques from detective fiction to find the clues necessary to “catch” an elusive poem.

How Our School Grew the AP Program in Two Short Years

The leadership of a large suburban high school shares strategies to increase participation in AP using relevant data points and stakeholder education.

Infusing Psychological Wisdom into the New AP 2019 Resources and Processes

A discussion of student- and teacher-based growth mindset and persistence support implemented in pilot work on the AP 2019 resources and processes.

Instructional Approaches for AP Physics

Learn new strategies for incorporating the teaching of content and skills in all four AP Physics courses.

Integrating Content and Skills in AP U.S. Government and Politics

Hear master teachers share their strategies for integrating the teaching of content and skills. Walk away with some classroom-ready strategies.

Making AP U.S. History More Than Just a Lecture Course

In this session AP U.S History teachers will be shown how to transform the course so that it still has a lecture component but also contains engaging activities and lessons.

New Labs for AP Computer Science A

This interactive session will introduce participants to newly released labs for AP Computer Science A, including their alignment to the curriculum.

New Resources for AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics

Participants will learn ways to incorporate new College Board resources and supports for AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics into their classes.

Peer Review in AP Science: Building Skills of Scientific Argumentation

Learn how peer review in your AP science classroom builds student scientific argumentation skills and increases student engagement and success.

Results from the 2019 AP Computer Science Principles Exam

Participants will examine the results of the 2019 AP Computer Science Principles assessment with the AP Computer Science Principles chief reader.

Socratic Symposium: Synthesizing Perspectives Through Discussion

Participants will discuss strategies for helping students to move past “being right” to engaging in dialogue and attaining a deeper understanding of an issue.

Supporting Student Success Through Narrative Writing

Support AP seniors through teaching the academic, narrative essay for college admissions and transfer learned skills to AP English exam success.

Teaching Neurotransmission in AP Psychology with a Digital Escape Room

Participants will learn to use a digital escape room to teach neurotransmission in a rigorous and collaborative way.

User-friendly DBQ practices, without the essays

In this session attendees will learn a document-based game that allows students to practice skills necessary to master the DBQ without teachers having to grade hundreds of essays.

Using and Designing Graphic Organizers and Evaluation Sheets for Section II of the AP Exam

In this session, participants will learn how to use and design various graphic organizers and evaluation sheets, which can then be implemented in their school or classroom.

When Less is More: Using Excerpts to Raise Scores

Using varied passages from novels and plays increases exposure, fosters engagement, and improves analysis of literature, in preparation for the AP English Literature and Composition Exam.

Strengthen Your AP Program: Administrators Workshop for New and Experienced Administrators (1)

Strengthen Your AP Program: Administrators Workshop for New and Experienced Administrators (1)

Strengthen Your AP Program: Administrators Workshop for New and Experienced Administrators (2)

Strengthen Your AP Program: Administrators Workshop for New and Experienced Administrators (2)

Strengthen Your AP Program: Administrators Workshop for New and Experienced Administrators (3)

Strengthen Your AP Program: Administrators Workshop for New and Experienced Administrators (3)

Strengthen Your AP Program: Administrators Workshop for New and Experienced Administrators (4)

Strengthen Your AP Program: Administrators Workshop for New and Experienced Administrators (4)

AP Biology for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Biology for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Calculus AB for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Calculus AB for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Calculus BC for Experienced Teachers

AP Calculus BC for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Calculus BC for New Teachers

AP Calculus BC for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Chemistry for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Chemistry for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Chinese Language and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Chinese Language and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Computer Science Principles for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Computer Science Principles for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - International/Puerto Rico

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - International/Puerto Rico One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - New England/Middle States/Midwest

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - New England/Middle States/Midwest One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (1)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (1) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (2)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (2) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (3)

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southern Region (3) One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southwest Region

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Southwest Region One Day Workshop

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Western Region

AP Coordinators Workshop: Parts 1 and 2 - Western Region One Day Workshop

AP English Language and Composition for Experienced Teachers

AP English Language and Composition for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP English Literature and Composition for New Teachers

AP English Literature and Composition for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP European History for Experienced Teachers

AP European History for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP European History for New Teachers

AP European History for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP German Language and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers

AP German Language and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Microeconomics for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Microeconomics for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Music Theory for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Music Theory for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Physics C: Mechanics and Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Physics C: Mechanics and Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Spanish Literature and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers

AP Spanish Literature and Culture for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Statistics for Experienced Teachers

AP Statistics for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP Statistics for New Teachers

AP Statistics for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP U.S. Government and Politics for Experienced Teachers

AP U.S. Government and Politics for Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP U.S. Government and Politics for New Teachers

AP U.S. Government and Politics for New Teachers One Day Workshop

AP U.S. History for New and Experienced Teachers

AP U.S. History for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

AP World History: Modern for New and Experienced Teachers

AP World History: Modern for New and Experienced Teachers One Day Workshop

Diversifying Your Course: Including Underrepresented Groups in AP U.S. History

Diversifying Your Course: Including Underrepresented Groups in AP U.S. History One Day Workshop

Pre-AP Arts: Documenting the Process of Thinking and Creating

Pre-AP Arts: Documenting the Process of Thinking and Creating One Day Workshop

Pre-AP ELA: Texts Take Center Stage

Pre-AP ELA: Texts Take Center Stage One Day Workshop

Pre-AP Math: Developing Mathematical Mindsets Through a Learner-Centered Classroom

Pre-AP Math: Developing Mathematical Mindsets Through a Learner-Centered Classroom One Day Workshop

Pre-AP Science: Developing Inquiry Mindsets in the Science Classroom

Pre-AP Science: Developing Inquiry Mindsets in the Science Classroom One Day workshop

Pre-AP Social Studies: Source Sets and Document Analysis

Pre-AP Social Studies: Source Sets and Document Analysis One Day Workshop