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What is it? How do I apply? What courses are available, who teaches them, and what is the schedule? How much does it cost, how do I get there, where will I stay, and what will I eat? Click here to download the 2007 AP Institute brochure with a registration form.
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Biology FULL
A classroom teacher for over forty-four years, Ann describes herself as a being dedicated to the classroom. She has been recognized with numerous special honors and recognition including: 1980, Virginia Junior Academy of Science: Club Sponsor of the Year; 1985, Collegiate School: Outstanding Teacher of the Year in the Boy's School; 1990, Virginia Association of Independent Schools: Outstanding Teacher of the Year; and Alumni Summer Grant for Teaching Excellence; 1994, Arthur Brinkley Grant for Teaching Excellence; 1997, VCU/MCV Governor's School: Recognition for dedicated service and valuable contributions to the teaching profession; 1997-2000, Recipient of the Massey Chair of Science; 2002-03, Siemen's Award for AP Teaching (1 of 18 awarded nationally). She has been an AP Biology Reader since the 1980's with a few years off to work on grants, and she has been an AP Consultant for College Board for six-seven years. She does several kinds of workshops: one day subject workshops for AP Bio, week long summer workshops for AP Biology, Student Review one day workshops, and workshops for both high school and middle school teachers to help them to get students ready for AP level courses.
Ann Griffin's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Calculus AB
Phyllis Hillis has taught mathematics at Oak Ridge High School for 26 years and AP Calculus AB since 1987. She has been an AP exam reader for six years and a table leader for an additional six years. She has served as a consultant to the College Board involved with AP Calculus, Building Success in Mathematics, Math Vertical Teams, as well as, Teaching and Learning Mathematics Conferences throughout the Southern region. In May she will have completed two years of a 4-year appointment with the Educational Testing Service on the SAT II, Mathematics, Test Development Committee. She is the co-author of a recently published book for Calculus students, Calculus Calculator Labs.
Phyllis Hillis's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Chemistry FULL
In addition to his being a Reader for years,
Jim has also conducted one-day workshops for eight years and week-long workshops for several years. He currently teaches AP at The Bolles School in Florida.
Jim Cortez's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
English (Language and Composition) FULL
John Williamson is an AP English Language teacher at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas Kentucky. He has served as a consultant for the College Board's AP Programs for the past five years and currently is a reader for the AP English Literature exam. Having taught both AP English courses over the past twelve years, John is able to share his experiences that will enable teachers to design lessons and units that are engaging and meaningful. In addition to teaching AP, John serves as the Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning with the Fort Thomas Schools, teaches the writing methods course at both the University of Kentucky and Thomas More College, and is currently the president-elect for the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts.
John Williamson's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 is available here.
English (Literature and Composition) FULL
I taught English for 30 years now in North Carolina and for 16 years AP English at the Career Center. I usually taught three or four AP classes of about thirty students each and served as the department chair. I've taught every grade level and English class from seventh grade to sophomore-college English in those 30 years, and I still find the AP curriculum the most challenging and rewarding. I have been a reader of the AP English exams for eleven years, a table leader three years, and an AP English consultant for ten. I am a National Board Certified Teacher in Adolescent/Young Adult English/Language Arts. I have both an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in English."
Danny Lawrence's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
European History
Larry Treadwell has taught in the Broward Country School system on Florida for more than thirty years. During this time he been selected as Social Studies Teacher of the Year 4 times and has guided the Academic Games competition teams to a top 3 finish 12 of 14 years. Mr. Treadwell has taught Advanced Placement European History since 1983 and over that period has had more than 90% of his students score 3 or higher on the national examination. Larry has been conducting workshops and summer institutes both in the United States and overseas for the College Board since 1989 and has been named as a reader, table leader and question leader for the scoring of the national Advanced Placement Examination.
Larry Treadwell's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
French (Language )
Genevieve Delfosse has been teaching French AP courses for the last 20 years. She currently teaches AP Language and Literature at TJHSST, a governor's school located in Northern Virginia. Ms. Delfosse has been for five years a member of the AP French Development committee. She has also been a table leader for the AP corrections for many years. Currently, Ms. DelFosse is Chair of the SAT II French development committee. She also chairs the National French Contest Development Committee. Ms. Delfosse has contributed many articles and reviews to AP publications, and launched the AP Central Resources for French teachers. She is the editor of the soon to be published "Teachers' Guide: AP Literature". Ms. Delfosse is a National Certified teacher.
Genevieve Delfosse's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Government and Politics/U.S.
Bonnie Herzog teaches AP U.S. History and AP U.S. and Comparative Politics at Newsome High School in Lithia, Florida, where she formulated the school guidelines for the Advanced Placement program. She also conducts teacher-training workshops on teaching AP classes for the Hillsborough County (FL) Schools and was selected to help develop future workshops for the Florida Humanities Council Institute. Her students consistently equal or exceed district and state levels on their AP exams. Herzog has served as a Faculty Consultant, Table Leader, and Question Leader for Educational Testing Service since 1992. She has a B.A. in Social Studies Education and History from Northern Kentucky University.
Bonnie Herzog's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Human Geography
Dan Vara is an AP College Board endorsed consultant in Human Geography and US History. He taught AP classes in these subjects in Braintree Public Schools for several years. Vara has a BA in History and Geography from Western Kentucky University and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Political Science from Harvard University Extension.
Dan Vara's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Physics B FULL
Ted Vittitoe has had a long association with The College Board and the Education Testing Service. He has been an AP Physics Reader for the past 15 years, and has served as a table leader and as a member of the test development committee. As a physics consultant for The College Board, Vittitoe has conducted over 100 conferences and over 25 summer workshops for AP teachers in the Southern, Midwestern and Canadian regions. He taught AP Physics B & C in a high school for 10 years and currently teaches general physics and engineering physics at a community college.
Ted Vittitoe's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Psychology
Hugh boasts over 25 years of teaching experience, all in psychology, all at the same high school in Georgia. He has taught AP Psychology for over 15 years, both as a traditional year long course as well as a semester block. As a College Board Consultant for over 11 years, Hugh has conducted numerous one-day workshops as well as several one-week institutes throughout the southeast. With M.Ed. and Ed.S. degrees from Georgia State State University, he has served as a Reader since 1997.
Hugh Canterbury's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Spanish (Language)
Dr. Fred Butler, currently Lecturer in Spanish at Stetson University in Deland, Florida, has taught AP Spanish for 17 years at the high school level in Clearwater, FL and Racine, WI. He was Chairperson of the World Language Department at Clearwater Central Catholic High School for fourteen years before retiring in 2004. He has attended all AP Spanish Exam Readings since 1991 and is currently a Table Leader and a member of the advanced team preparing other table leaders before the general reading takes place. In addition, as an endorsed and certified Consultant for the College Board, he directs three summer institutes for teachers at Western Kentucky University (this will be his fifth year), Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and the University of Alabama, among others. During the academic year he gives review workshops for the AP Spanish Language Exam to students.
Fred Butler's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Statistics
Landy received BS and MS degrees in Applied Mathematics from Georgia Tech and has taught 32 years at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, including courses in statistics for over 25 of those years (at the AP level since 1997). In 1984 he was one of the first fifty participants in the Woodrow Wilson Summer Institutes in mathematics at Princeton (that year the topic was Statistics) and returned during the summers of 1988-1993 to serve as Computer Director for that program. He served two three-year terms as an NCTM appointee to the ASA-NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability, serving his final two years as chair. He began as an AP reader of Statistics exams in 1997, and has five years experience as a table leader. He is a co-author of NCTM's Navigations in Data Analysis. Honors include Westminster's Alex P. Gaines professorship and Alumni Fellow for Distinguished Teaching and the national Presidential, Radio Shack National Teacher, and MAA Edyth May Sliffe awards.
Landy Godbold's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Studio Art
Janet Siegel Rogers is currently affiliated with the School of Architecture, Florida Atlantic University. She is an endorsed consultant for the College Board presenting Advanced Placement Studio Art and Pre AP Studio Art workshops to art educators. As an art educator, she has taught at all levels from kindergarten through graduate studies. She established Broward County, Florida's high school visual art magnet program at Dillard Center for the Arts in 1988. In 1994 she received the award of Arts Teacher of the Year for Broward County, the fifth largest school system in the United States. For the last 17 years Janet has guided Advance Placement Studio Art students in their creation and preparation of their AP portfolios. Janet is an internationally recognized artist - her paintings are known for the expression of luminous color. She has a Master of Fine Art degree from Pratt Institute, a Master of Art degree from William Paterson University, and a B.A degree from Denison University.
Janet Rogers' Letter to Participants and Syllabus for the AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
United States History
Gene Pickel has both a Bachelor and a Master's of Arts degree in history with concentrations in Nineteenth Century American History. His thesis, A History of Roane County, Tennessee to 1869 has been published. Gene began teaching Advanced Placement United States History at Oak Ridge High School in 1967 and has followed the program through its many changes since that time. He has been a consultant for the College Board since 1982, conducted one-day workshops and summer institutes for AP history teachers at various schools, colleges and universities, and served on several College Board committees. For the pre-AP programs, he helped to design and pilot Building Success and is now a consultant for both Building Success and Vertical Team workshops for teachers. For the Educational Testing Service, Gene has served on the Test Development Committee for US History and been a reader and table leader for the scoring of AP US History examinations. Gene's past honors include The Tennessee Teacher of the Year Award presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Just this year he was given the College Board Southern Regional Distinguished Service Award for contributions made to the Advanced Placement program. Gene retired from teaching full time in the 1990s.
Gene Pickel's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for the AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
World History Donna Rogers-Beard has taught World History AP for three years at Clayton High School in Clayton, Missouri. She has also taught Latin American Studies and African Studies at Clayton High School. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the second World History institute held at Princeton in 1991. She was chosen, along with four other teachers, from the fifty teachers in the program to be part of the Teacher Out Reach Program (TORCH). For three years this team traveled across the United States teaching teachers. In 2000-01, she helped to develop and taught World History in the Secondary Classroom, an undergraduate semester course at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. She has served as a World History consultant for the College Board for five years. In addition, she has been a reader for the World History exam and has served as a table leader for three years. Donna has just completed a two-year study of Chinese History through the International Educational Consortium of St. Louis sponsored by the Freeman Foundation. This program included a three-week trip to China. Recently, the Missouri Council named Donna the Missouri Social Studies Teacher of the year.
Donna Rogers-Beard's Letter to the Participants for the AP Summer Institute 2007 is available here.
WORKSHOPS FOR EXPERIENCED ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHERS. (EXPERIENCED AP workshop classes are designed to update and refine the skills of AP teachers who have completed a one-week workshop.
Calculus AB/BC
Benita Albert has taught AP Calculus BC for 39 years at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Additionally she has served as an exam reader, table leader and member of the AP Test Development Committee as well as a consultant for College Board in the Southeast. Of late, her committee work with Math Vertical Teams and Building Success in Mathematics has concentrated on Pre-AP educational services. She has recently coauthored the AP Teacher's Guide to accompany the Third Edition of Calculus by Hughes-Hallett, et al., and through Skylight Publishing has coauthored Be Prepared for the AP Calculus Exams and Calculus Calculator Labs.
Benita Albert's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for the AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
Chemistry (Experienced) Tom Boyd is Chairperson of the Science Department at McCallie High School in Chattanooga, TN. He teaches AP Chemistry and Honors Chemistry there. He has his B.A. in Science from Washington and Jefferson College; B.S., from Ohio State University; and M.A.T., from Duke University. Boyd is a Southeast Advanced Placement chemistry consultant, chairperson of the 2000 and 2002 American Chemical Society National Advanced High School Chemistry Exam, question leader for the AP Chemistry exam and a former member of the Test Development Committee of the College Board Advanced Placement Chemistry Test and the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Committee. Tom Boyd is a former Keo-Kio distinguished teacher and a recipient of several ACS High School Chemistry Teacher of the Year awards.
Tom Boyd's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for the AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
English Language (Experienced)
"AP Institutes provide professional development you can use in your classroom from day one, and nothing is more exciting than sharing ideas with teachers who love the English language as much as you do."
Christine Sanderson is an AP English Language teacher at Archbishop Chapelle High School in Metairie Louisiana. An English teacher for 26 years, she has taught AP Language since 1988. She has been a reader for the AP English Language exam since 1996 and a consultant with the College Board since 2001. She is also a reader for the writing portion of the SAT. In addition to teaching AP, Christine is also a reviewer for VOYA magazine, a publication dedicated to adolescent literature. She has a BA and an MA in English and an additional certification as a school librarian.
Christine Sanderson's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for the AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
English Literature and Composition
John's career as an educator spans 34 years and includes a wide variety of teaching experiences. He spent 27 years in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he taught virtually every grade and academic level, and he taught AP for over 20 years, including both English Literature and Composition and English Language and Composition. As an administrator, he served as English Vertical Teaming Coordinator and English Curriculum Specialist. In addition, he taught a variety of literature and writing courses at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. John retired from public education in January, 2003, and now spends his time as a consultant for the College Board, conducting workshops in AP, Vertical Teaming, and Interdisciplinary Strategies with English and Social Studies.
John Kiser's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for the AP Summer Institute 2007 are available here.
United States/ European History (Experienced)
Warren Hierl has taught Advanced Placement U.S. History at the Career Center in Winston-Salem, NC for almost 20 years. He has conducted more than 75 one-day Advanced Placement workshops and more than 50 week-long Advanced Placement Summer Institutes throughout the Southeast. He was a member of the committee that wrote the Advanced Placement Social Studies Vertical Teams Guide and is currently in the process of writing, with Nancy Schick of New Mexico, the Advanced Placement U.S. History Teachers Guide. He has been a reader, a table leader, and an exam leader at the AP U.S. History reading.
Warren Hierl's Letter to the Participants and Syllabus for the AP Summer Institute 2007 is available here.
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How much does it cost, how do I get there, where will I stay, and where do I eat?
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How much does it cost?
The $450 registration fee for each of the workshops covers the cost of instruction, College Board Advanced Placement packets, and other training materials. The registration fee for workshops does not include the cost of housing, meals, or airport transportation.Getting there
If you plan to fly in from out of state, you should make reservations to Nashville, TN, the closest airport. Transportation by chartered bus/van from the Nashville airport to Western Kentucky University and from the University to the Nashville airport will be available for individuals participating in the AP Summer Institute. The charge for this service is $30 each way. Please contact The Center for more information on travel from BNA (Nashville airport). Emergency Phone Numbers are The Center for Gifted Studies at 270.745.6323 and The Nashville Airport Welcome Center at 615.275.1675.Where will I stay?
Accommodations will be available in a newly-renovated residence hall in which two rooms share a bath. The costs of the residence hall accommodations are $25 per day/per person for a double occupancy room and $37.50 per day for a single room. Plan to bring towels, bed linens, a pillow, and telephone. No children can be accommodated in the residence hall.To reserve a room, please complete the Housing Information section of the application. Individuals preferring to stay in a motel during the Institute can see the Bowling Green Convention and Visitors Bureau's list of local lodging accommodations by clicking here.
Where will I eat?
Due to the busy schedule, you may find it most convenient to eat lunch on campus. In the mornings and evenings you may eat on campus or at any of the restaurants in Bowling Green. Information about dining facilities on campus and restaurants in town will be available when you pick up your workshop materials, or you may click here for local restaurant information.
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